Journeys End (1930)

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Journeys End (1930)

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00:01:30You can see me now, eh?

00:01:31Come on, George, cut him a fly, that's what.

00:01:35What about Liza, eh, George?

00:01:36Ha, ha!

00:01:42How about father?

00:01:44What do you think about it, eh?

00:01:50You must be nearly in Berlin by this time.

00:01:53Make your wife a more hobbit.

00:01:55Keep quiet, then!

00:01:56Never mind the odds, get a move on!

00:02:27Come on, get moving!

00:02:29I'll make you my wife, eh!

00:02:31Go on, get going, you'll make me your wife!

00:02:33Come on, George, cut him a fly, that's what.

00:02:36What about me, eh?

00:02:37Where are you going?

00:02:39Come back and put this thing down, Potato Head!

00:02:44Come on, George, where are you going?

00:02:47Come back, I said!

00:02:48Where are you going?

00:02:50What the hell, eh?

00:02:52Now, George?

00:02:53Now, George?

00:02:55What are we waiting for this time?

00:02:57I don't know.

00:02:59Got a match, Bill?

00:03:07Keep it under your hat.

00:03:09That's what it means, I suppose.

00:03:12Look out, Tilly. Here he comes now.

00:03:15Put that light out.

00:03:17What light?

00:03:18You know what light.

00:03:20You want to get us all blown to pieces?

00:03:26Lucky for you, that was her dad.

00:03:28Come on, get a move on here.

00:03:29It's getting too blowing out here.

00:03:30Come on.

00:03:37Oh, come on there.

00:03:39If you can say goodbye to your lost bottle of beer,

00:03:41I'm going to have to stay no more than longer than you do.

00:03:43Hey, to the left.

00:03:45Hey, something coming out.

00:03:46Come on, Gerald.

00:03:47Yeah, I think so.

00:03:49Come on, Archibald.

00:03:56Hello, Bert.

00:03:57I didn't recognize you for a minute.

00:03:59What's it like this week?

00:04:01Oh, I ain't noticed any difference.

00:04:03Are you going to spend your ten days' rest at Margate?

00:04:06Well, I was thinking about flying over to Australia.

00:04:09Send us an ostrich for the missus, will you?

00:04:12Adios.

00:04:13Boiled or fried?

00:04:14One and two platoons to the left.

00:04:17Three and four to the right.

00:04:19One and two platoons to the left.

00:04:21One and two platoons to the right.

00:04:23Three and four to the right.

00:04:25Cheerio, George.

00:04:26Cheerio, Bert.

00:04:41Here we are.

00:04:42Welcome home.

00:04:44Scrape your feet on the mat.

00:04:51First gunner this way.

00:04:54Oh, here you are.

00:04:58You cover from that ruin on the left

00:05:00to that German hanging on the barbed wire on the right.

00:05:03There's a sniper in that ruin.

00:05:05Look out for him.

00:05:07He usually starts to work about five.

00:05:09Right off.

00:05:11I'll take your hat.

00:05:12At one and two, I'm with Lord and Lou.

00:05:14Three and four, two girls more.

00:05:17Five and six with some more, I mix.

00:05:19Seven, eight, Clara and Caroline.

00:05:22Nine and ten, I'm at work again.

00:05:28But the girl I meet at twelve, oh my God.

00:05:32What a life.

00:05:33Not a word to the wife.

00:05:36Tick-tock, wind up the clock

00:05:39and I start my day over again.

00:05:44Hello, Hardy.

00:05:45Hello, Osmond.

00:05:46Your fellows arriving?

00:05:47Yes, they're just coming in.

00:05:49Splendid. Have a drink.

00:05:51Thanks.

00:05:52Thanks.

00:05:59Don't have too much water.

00:06:00It's rather strong today.

00:06:03I wonder what it is they put in the water.

00:06:07Some sort of disinfectant, I suppose.

00:06:10I'd rather have the microbes, wouldn't you?

00:06:12I would, yes.

00:06:15Cheer up.

00:06:16Cheer up.

00:06:19Excuse my sock, won't you?

00:06:21Certainly.

00:06:25It's a nice-looking sock.

00:06:27It is, rather, isn't it?

00:06:29Guaranteed to keep the feet dry.

00:06:31The trouble is, it gets so wet doing it.

00:06:35Stan, at our speed, come and take over.

00:06:38He's looking after the men coming in.

00:06:41I'm awfully glad you've come.

00:06:43Why?

00:06:44I heard this was a quiet bit of line up here.

00:06:46Oh, quite. They simply blew us to bits yesterday.

00:06:50Too much damage?

00:06:52Awful.

00:06:53The duck out got blown up and came down in the men's tea.

00:06:55They were frightfully annoyed.

00:06:58I know.

00:06:59There's nothing worse than dirt in your tea.

00:07:04By the way,

00:07:06what's happened to the big German attack?

00:07:09Yes.

00:07:11I'd forgotten about that.

00:07:13Are you here for six days?

00:07:14Yes.

00:07:15Then I should think you'd get it, right in the neck.

00:07:19Well, you won't be far away.

00:07:21Come on. Let's do this handing over.

00:07:25There you are.

00:07:31500 mils bonds, 34 gumboots.

00:07:34That's 17 pair.

00:07:35Oh, no. 25 right leg and 9 left.

00:07:39But everything's down there. It's quite all right.

00:07:41I expect Stan up. I'd like to see you before you go.

00:07:44How is the dear young boy?

00:07:46Drinking like a fish as usual?

00:07:48He's by far the best company commander we've got.

00:07:50Oh, he's a good chef. I know.

00:07:53I never did see a youngster put away the whisky he does.

00:07:56Do you know, the last time out resting at the Inn,

00:07:58he came to supper with us

00:07:59and drank a whole bottle in one hour, 14 minutes.

00:08:01We timed it.

00:08:02Do you know how long he's been out here?

00:08:06A good time. I know.

00:08:09Nearly three years.

00:08:11He came out here straight from school.

00:08:13Oh, I know he's a jolly good fellow.

00:08:15Because he's stuck it.

00:08:17His nerves are all battered to bits. He's called a drunkard.

00:08:21You don't know him as I do.

00:08:23I love that fellow. I'd go to hell with him.

00:08:27Oh, you sweet sentimental old darling.

00:08:30Come on, let's finish this handing over and stop blithering.

00:08:33There's nothing else to do.

00:08:34What about the log book?

00:08:37Oh, God, you are a worker.

00:08:43Here we are.

00:08:46Written right up to date.

00:08:48Here's my last entry.

00:08:505 p.m. to 8 p.m., all quiet.

00:08:53German airman flew over trenches.

00:08:55Shot a red.

00:08:57Did he?

00:08:58No, I shot the red, you oaf.

00:09:00Come on, finish up your whiskey. I want to pack my mug.

00:09:03I'll leave you that drop in the bottle.

00:09:06Plenty of water if you're thirsty.

00:09:08Thanks.

00:09:10How's yours?

00:09:12Well...

00:09:14I hope you have a nice six days.

00:09:19Don't forget to change your drawers if you get wet.

00:09:22No, Papa.

00:09:24And don't forget about that big attack.

00:09:26Oh, Lord, no, I mustn't miss that.

00:09:28I'll make another one.

00:09:29I'll make another one.

00:09:31I'll make another one.

00:09:32I'll make another one.

00:09:33I'll make another one.

00:09:34I'll make another one.

00:09:35I'll make another one.

00:09:37I'll make another one.

00:09:38I'll make another one.

00:09:40Here we are.

00:09:43Don't I look like a soldier?

00:09:45I would be afraid if I were a German

00:09:48and I saw you coming around the corner.

00:09:50I hope you would.

00:09:51I wouldn't be able to run away.

00:09:53Don't be rude.

00:10:03Well, I'm dead.

00:10:05Still at it.

00:10:06Why, that cockroach.

00:10:07It's been running round and round that candle ever since tea time.

00:10:10Must have done a mile.

00:10:12Did you ever have cockroach races?

00:10:13No.

00:10:14Oh, great fun.

00:10:16We've had them every evening.

00:10:17What are the rules?

00:10:18Well, you each have a cockroach and you start them.

00:10:21In line, here.

00:10:22Here.

00:10:23They're on the word go.

00:10:25You dig your cockroach in the ribs

00:10:27and you stare him with a match across the table.

00:10:29I won ten francs last night.

00:10:30Had a splendid cockroach.

00:10:32A little black chap.

00:10:33You'll find him jazzing about here somewhere.

00:10:35I'll give you a tip.

00:10:36Yes.

00:10:37Swear you won't tell a soul?

00:10:38Yes.

00:10:38Well, if you want to get the best pace out of your cockroach,

00:10:40dip it in whiskey.

00:10:41Make some go like hell.

00:10:42Right.

00:10:43Thanks awfully.

00:10:44Well, I must be off.

00:10:45Ciaro.

00:10:46Ciaro.

00:10:54Excuse me, sir.

00:10:55Can I lay supper?

00:10:56Yes, do.

00:10:57Thank you, sir.

00:11:05Well, what are you going to tempt us with tonight, Mason?

00:11:07Soup, sir.

00:11:08Cutlets and pineapple.

00:11:10Cutlets?

00:11:11Yes, sir.

00:11:12Cutlets.

00:11:13What sort of cutlets?

00:11:15Well, sir, I don't like to commit myself too deep.

00:11:18Ordinary ration meat.

00:11:20Yes, sir.

00:11:20Ordinary ration meat.

00:11:22But a new shape.

00:11:23Smells like liver.

00:11:24But it hasn't got that smooth, wet look what liver's got, sir.

00:11:28Well, I don't like it.

00:11:29I don't like it.

00:11:30I don't like it.

00:11:31I don't like it.

00:11:32I don't like it.

00:11:33I don't like it.

00:11:34I don't like it.

00:11:35Well, sir, I don't like it.

00:11:49This is the company headquarters, sir.

00:11:51Oh, thanks.

00:11:52Better go down, sir.

00:11:53Yes, right, yeah.

00:12:03Hello.

00:12:03Good evening, sir.

00:12:05You the new officer?

00:12:06Yes.

00:12:07Good.

00:12:08We've been expecting you.

00:12:10Sit down, won't you?

00:12:11Thanks.

00:12:22I'll just take your pack off.

00:12:23Oh, right.

00:12:29Have a drink?

00:12:30Uh, well...

00:12:31You don't drink whiskey?

00:12:32Oh, yes.

00:12:33Just a small one, sir.

00:12:37Whiskey takes away the taste of the water.

00:12:39Oh, yes?

00:12:40And the water takes away the taste of the whiskey.

00:12:50Just out from England?

00:12:52Yes, I landed a week ago.

00:12:53Bullion?

00:12:54Yes.

00:12:57Well, good luck, sir.

00:12:59Good luck.

00:13:03Cigarette?

00:13:04Thanks.

00:13:15Ever been up in the line before?

00:13:17Oh, no.

00:13:18You see, I only got out of school at the end of last summer term.

00:13:21I expect you find it a bit strange.

00:13:24Yes, I do a bit.

00:13:26My name's Osborne.

00:13:28I'm second in command of the company.

00:13:30You only call me sir in front of the men.

00:13:32I see.

00:13:33Thanks.

00:13:34You'll find the other officers call me uncle.

00:13:36Oh, yes?

00:13:37What's your name?

00:13:38Raleigh.

00:13:39Raleigh.

00:13:41Captain Stenup commands the company.

00:13:43I know.

00:13:44It's a frightful bit of luck.

00:13:46Why?

00:13:47Do you know him?

00:13:48Rather.

00:13:49We were at school together.

00:13:51At least, of course.

00:13:52I was only a kid.

00:13:53He was one of the big fellows.

00:13:55He's three years older than I am.

00:13:57So you were at school with Stenup?

00:14:00I wonder if he'll remember you.

00:14:02I expect you've grown in the last three years.

00:14:04Oh, I think he'll remember me.

00:14:07He's a fine company commander.

00:14:09Isn't he?

00:14:11I expect Dennis will be frightfully surprised to see me.

00:14:14I've got a message for him.

00:14:15From the general?

00:14:17No, from my sister.

00:14:19Your sister?

00:14:20Yes.

00:14:21You see, Dennis used to stay with us, naturally my sister.

00:14:24Well, perhaps I ought not.

00:14:26Oh, that's all right.

00:14:28I didn't actually know that Stenup was...

00:14:30Oh, they're not officially engaged.

00:14:31No?

00:14:33She'll be awfully glad I'm here with him.

00:14:35I can write and tell her all about him.

00:14:37He doesn't say much in his letters.

00:14:40Can he write often?

00:14:41Oh, yes.

00:14:42Letters are collected every day.

00:14:44Good.

00:14:49You say it's a long time since you last saw him.

00:14:51Nearly a year ago.

00:14:53You know, Raleigh,

00:14:55you mustn't expect to find him quite the same.

00:14:58Oh?

00:14:59You may find he's a bit quick-tempered.

00:15:03Oh, I know old Dennis's temper.

00:15:05You must remember he's commanded this company for a long time.

00:15:09It's a big strain on a man.

00:15:11Oh, it must be.

00:15:12So if you notice a difference in Stenup,

00:15:14you'll know it's only the strain.

00:15:16I see.

00:15:19Now, let's see.

00:15:26I expect you'll sleep in the other dugout there.

00:15:28Oh, right-o.

00:15:32We never undress in the line.

00:15:34You can take your boots off now and then in the daytime,

00:15:37but it's better to keep pretty well-dressed always.

00:15:39I see. Thanks.

00:15:43I expect we shall each do about three hours' duty at a time,

00:15:46and then six off.

00:15:47I see.

00:15:56Are we in the front line here?

00:15:58No.

00:15:59That's the support line out there.

00:16:01The front line's about 50 yards further on to the left.

00:16:09How frightfully quiet it is.

00:16:11Yes.

00:16:12It's often quiet like this.

00:16:15I thought there'd be an awful row here all the time.

00:16:18Most people think that.

00:16:21I expect it all seems very strange to you.

00:16:25Well, it's not exactly what I thought.

00:16:27It's just this quiet that seems so funny.

00:16:30Yeah.

00:16:31About a hundred yards from here,

00:16:32the Germans are sitting in their dugouts

00:16:34thinking how quiet it is.

00:16:36Are they as near as that?

00:16:38About a hundred yards.

00:16:40I don't think so.

00:16:41I don't think so.

00:16:42I don't think so.

00:16:43I don't think so.

00:16:44I don't think so.

00:16:45I don't think so.

00:16:46I don't think so.

00:16:47I don't think so.

00:16:48Are they as near as that?

00:16:49About a hundred yards.

00:17:01It seems uncanny.

00:17:03Makes me feel we're all just waiting for something.

00:17:06You thought it was fighting all the time.

00:17:08Oh, yes, in a way.

00:17:11Can you tell me where number two platoon is, sir?

00:17:13Yes, in the big dugout.

00:17:14Thank you, sir.

00:17:22Did you come up by trench tonight or over the top?

00:17:25By trench.

00:17:26An amazing trench.

00:17:27Turning and twisting for miles over a sort of plain.

00:17:30There's something rather romantic about it all.

00:17:33Yes.

00:17:34There's something rather romantic about it all.

00:17:37There's something rather romantic about it all.

00:17:39Yes.

00:17:40I thought that too.

00:17:42Always think of it that way if you can.

00:17:44Think of it all as romantic.

00:17:46It helps.

00:17:48What's that?

00:17:49Sounds like a big attack.

00:17:50Come on, Ratty.

00:17:54I'll smash his head in.

00:17:57Matter?

00:17:58Let me get at him or I'll strangle him so open.

00:18:00Why, what's happened?

00:18:01Happened?

00:18:02You know that dinner pineapple chunks I got, sir?

00:18:05Yes.

00:18:06I was going to say the apricots.

00:18:08Good hems.

00:18:09Must have given you a turn.

00:18:11I distinctly said pineapple chunks at the canteen, sir.

00:18:14Wasn't there a label on the tin?

00:18:16No, sir.

00:18:17I pointed that out to the man.

00:18:19I said, was he certain it was pineapple chunks?

00:18:22And I suppose he said he was.

00:18:24Yes, sir.

00:18:25He said a leopard can't change his spots.

00:18:29What have leopards got to do with pineapples?

00:18:32That's just what I thought, sir.

00:18:34Made me think there was something fishy about it.

00:18:36You see, sir,

00:18:37I know the captain can't stand the sight of apricots.

00:18:40He said to me the next time we had him,

00:18:42he'd wring my blooming neck, sir.

00:18:44Well, haven't you anything else?

00:18:47Well, there's this pink flamonde I've made, sir.

00:18:51But it ain't anywhere near stiff yet.

00:18:53Never mind, Mason.

00:18:54We must have the apricots and chances.

00:18:57Only I thought I'd tell you, sir,

00:18:59so as the captain won't blame me.

00:19:01That's all right, Mason.

00:19:02Very good, sir.

00:19:03This is Mr. Raleigh, Mason.

00:19:04Good evening, sir.

00:19:05Good evening.

00:19:06You understand how it is, sir, don't you?

00:19:08I distinctly said pineapple chunks at the canteen

00:19:10and he told me not...

00:19:11Yes, Mason, that's all right.

00:19:13Very good, sir.

00:19:14That sounds like stand-up now.

00:19:30Has Hardy gone?

00:19:31Yes, he cleared out a few minutes ago.

00:19:33Well, lucky for him he did.

00:19:35I had a few words to say to Master Hardy.

00:19:37You never saw such a mess, those fellows at the trenches in.

00:19:41Dugouts smell like cesspits.

00:19:43Damp bombs, rusty rifle grenades.

00:19:46It's perfectly foul.

00:19:48Where are the servants?

00:19:49In there.

00:19:51Mason!

00:19:52Coming, sir.

00:19:53Just bringing the soup, sir.

00:19:54Go damn the soup.

00:19:56Bring some whiskey.

00:19:57Here's a new officer, Stanhope.

00:19:58Just arrived.

00:19:59Oh, sorry.

00:20:00Couldn't see you in this miserable life.

00:20:03Hello, Stanhope.

00:20:07How did you get here?

00:20:09Well, I was told to report to your company, Stanhope.

00:20:13I see.

00:20:15Rather a coincidence, isn't it?

00:20:17Yes.

00:20:18I'm awfully glad to be in your company, Stanhope.

00:20:23Well, come and sit here beside me, uncle.

00:20:26You'd better sit there, Ali.

00:20:27Right-o.

00:20:30You're Ali?

00:20:31Yes.

00:20:32I'm Trotter.

00:20:33Oh, yes.

00:20:34How are you?

00:20:35All right, thanks.

00:20:36Been out here before?

00:20:37No.

00:20:38Feel a bit odd, I suppose.

00:20:39Does a bit.

00:20:41Oh, well, you'll soon get used to it.

00:20:44You know, you'll feel you've been out here a year.

00:20:46In about an hour's time.

00:20:53What sort of soup is this, Mason?

00:20:55It's yellow soup, sir.

00:20:57It has a very deep yellow flavor.

00:20:59It needs some pepper.

00:21:00Bring some pepper, Mason.

00:21:02I'm very sorry, sir.

00:21:03When the mess box was packed, the pepper was omitted.

00:21:05Oh, I say.

00:21:06But damn it.

00:21:07Well, we must have pepper.

00:21:09It's a disinfectant.

00:21:10You must have pepper in soup.

00:21:12Why wasn't it packed, Mason?

00:21:14Well, sir, I left it to Herbert.

00:21:17Then I advise you never to leave it to anyone else again.

00:21:20Unless you want to rejoin your platoon in the line.

00:21:23Go and fetch some.

00:21:24Right, sir.

00:21:25I send Herbert a pinching off Sergeant Cox.

00:21:27Unbeknown.

00:21:30I mean, after all, war's bad enough with pepper.

00:21:33But with that pepper, it's blooming awful.

00:21:37What's it like outside?

00:21:39Quiet as an empty house.

00:21:41I wish we knew more of what's going on.

00:21:43So do I.

00:21:44Still, me wife reads the papers every morning

00:21:46and writes and tells me the news.

00:21:52What's this?

00:21:54It's meat, sir.

00:21:55I know that.

00:21:56What sort?

00:21:57Sort of cutlet, sir.

00:21:59Sort of cutlet, is it?

00:22:01You know, Mason, there's cutlets and cutlets.

00:22:05I know, sir.

00:22:06But that one's a cutlet.

00:22:07Well, it won't let me cut it.

00:22:10No, sir.

00:22:11That's a joke.

00:22:12Oh, right.

00:22:17You'd better go out and have a look at that ruin tonight.

00:22:27Trotter goes on duty as soon as he's finished supper.

00:22:30You'd better go with him to learn.

00:22:32Right.

00:22:33Look here, Skipper.

00:22:35It's nearly eight now.

00:22:37Couldn't we make it off fast?

00:22:38No.

00:22:40Well, boys, here we are again for six days.

00:22:44Six blooming eternal days.

00:22:46That's 144 hours.

00:22:49That's 8,618 minutes.

00:22:52That doesn't sound so bad.

00:22:54We've done 20 of them already.

00:22:56Well, it's five to eight now.

00:22:58You'd better go and relieve Hibbert.

00:23:00I haven't had me apricots yet.

00:23:02We'll keep your apricots till you come back.

00:23:05I never saw anything like a war for upsetting meals.

00:23:09That's because you never stop eating.

00:23:11Well, anyhow, let's have some coffee.

00:23:13Hi, Mason.

00:23:14Coffee.

00:23:15Coming, sir.

00:23:16Well, I'll get dressed.

00:23:19Come along, Raleigh.

00:23:20Right.

00:23:22Just wear your belt with your revolver case on it.

00:23:25Must have your revolver to shoot rats.

00:23:27And your tin hat.

00:23:32Oh, you don't need your walking stick.

00:23:34It gets in your way if you have to run fast.

00:23:36Do you have to run fast?

00:23:38Oh, Lord, yes.

00:23:39Often.

00:23:40When you see a mini coming.

00:23:41That's a big drenched mortar shell.

00:23:43Short for mini whopper.

00:23:45When they come over, you've got to dodge

00:23:46and run like hell sometimes.

00:23:48Coffee, sir?

00:23:49Oh, thanks.

00:23:52Oh, thanks.

00:23:54Thanks.

00:23:55Hey, Mason.

00:23:57I might leave my apricots out.

00:23:59Put them on a separate plate and put them in there.

00:24:01Very good, sir.

00:24:02If you leave them in here,

00:24:03you never know what might happen to them.

00:24:05No, sir.

00:24:10Big company on our right, aren't they, Skipper?

00:24:12Yes.

00:24:13There's 50 yards of undefended area between.

00:24:16You'd better patrol, Errico, dear.

00:24:17Right-o.

00:24:19And have a look at that Lewis gun position on the left.

00:24:21Right.

00:24:22You don't want me to go out

00:24:23and look at that blinking ruin, do you?

00:24:25Nope.

00:24:26I'll see to that.

00:24:27Good.

00:24:28I don't fancy crawling about on me belly

00:24:30after that cutlet.

00:24:33Ah.

00:24:34Well, come on, me lad.

00:24:36Let's go and see about this here war.

00:24:42Hey, try and keep your face out of the mud.

00:24:44Oh, damn.

00:24:45You've got to watch out.

00:24:46Holes everywhere, but you'll get used to them.

00:24:48Yes.

00:24:53Hello, hello.

00:24:56Who's this?

00:24:58It's me, sir.

00:25:00Hello, George.

00:25:01I didn't recognize you for a minute.

00:25:03No, sir.

00:25:05How's the view, George?

00:25:07I can't see anything, sir.

00:25:09How much are you charging for a look at the eclipse?

00:25:11Well, anyhow, let's have a look.

00:25:13Here, boy, he's a fairy sculptor.

00:25:15Come and get your penny's worth.

00:25:24Well, how does it look to you, Raleigh?

00:25:27It does look a bit strange.

00:25:29That's just what I say.

00:25:31Needs a bit of gardening, that's what.

00:25:33Well, come along, me lad.

00:25:35I'll show you the sights.

00:25:37Will you take apricots, sir?

00:25:40No, thanks, Mason.

00:25:42I'm very sorry about them pineapples being apricots.

00:25:45I explained to Mr. Osborne.

00:25:47That's all right, Mason, thanks.

00:25:49All right.

00:25:50Very good, sir.

00:25:54Well, what's the matter with you?

00:25:56I've got to go.

00:25:58I've got to go.

00:26:00I've got to go.

00:26:02I've got to go.

00:26:03I've got to go.

00:26:04I've got to go.

00:26:06Why don't you turn in and get some sleep?

00:26:09Sleep?

00:26:12I can't sleep.

00:26:16Well, Hibbert?

00:26:18Everything's fairly quiet.

00:26:20There's a bit of sniping on the left

00:26:21and rifle grenades on the right.

00:26:23I see.

00:26:24Mason's got your supper for you.

00:26:26Well, I...

00:26:28I don't think I can manage any supper tonight, Stannis.

00:26:30There's a beastly neuralgia.

00:26:32Seems to be right inside this eye.

00:26:35Beastly pain gets worse every day.

00:26:37Some hot soup and a good tough chop will put that right.

00:26:40I'm afraid the pain rather takes my appetite away.

00:26:42Try and forget about it.

00:26:44Well, I...

00:26:46I wish I could.

00:26:47Now get tight.

00:26:49No, I...

00:26:51I think I'll turn in for some rest.

00:26:53All right, turn in.

00:26:55You go on duty at 2, I'll leave you at 4.

00:26:58I'll tell Mason to call you.

00:27:00All right.

00:27:01Thanks, Stannis.

00:27:03Cheer up.

00:27:04Cheer up.

00:27:11Can I have a candle?

00:27:17There you are.

00:27:24Thanks.

00:27:30Another little worm trying to riddle home.

00:27:32I think he's tried hard.

00:27:34How long has he been out here?

00:27:36Three months, I suppose.

00:27:39Now he's decided he's done his bit.

00:27:42Oh, he's mistaken.

00:27:44I let Warren get away like that.

00:27:47No more.

00:27:49I don't see how you can prevent a fellow going sick.

00:27:52I'll have a word with the doctor before he does.

00:27:55Thinks he's going to riddle home before the attack.

00:27:59We'll just see about that.

00:28:01Ratty seems a nice chap.

00:28:05Yes.

00:28:07Schooled with you, wasn't he?

00:28:10Has he been talking already?

00:28:12He just mentioned it.

00:28:14He seems to think a lot of you.

00:28:18I'm his hero.

00:28:20It's quite natural.

00:28:22I wonder.

00:28:26How many battalions do you have?

00:28:28How many battalions are there in France, Uncle?

00:28:31Why?

00:28:33We'll say 50 divisions.

00:28:36That's 1,800 companies.

00:28:40Ratty might have been sent to any one of those.

00:28:44God, he comes to mind.

00:28:58I haven't shown you that, have I?

00:29:00No.

00:29:03Ratty's sister, isn't it?

00:29:05How do you know?

00:29:07Strong likeness.

00:29:10She's an awfully nice looking girl.

00:29:12I don't know.

00:29:14The photo doesn't show much really, you know.

00:29:17Just her face.

00:29:23I don't know why I keep it, really.

00:29:25Why?

00:29:27She's waiting for you, isn't she?

00:29:29I thought so.

00:29:31Well, what do you think?

00:29:33I thought perhaps she was waiting for you.

00:29:35Yes, she's waiting for me and she doesn't know.

00:29:38She thinks I'm a fine fellow, commanding a company.

00:29:42She doesn't know if I went up those steps into the front line

00:29:45without being doped with whiskey, I'd go mad with fright.

00:29:53Now look here, old chap.

00:29:55It's time you went home for a rest.

00:29:57It's my duty, old chap.

00:29:59You suggest I go sick?

00:30:01You rails are in the eye, eh?

00:30:05I didn't even go home on my last leave.

00:30:08In case she'd find out.

00:30:11And now her brother has to turn up.

00:30:14It's not as bad as that.

00:30:16But I've just told you.

00:30:18That boy's a hero worshipper.

00:30:20Damned uncle.

00:30:22You're a schoolmaster, you know?

00:30:24Yes.

00:30:25Raleigh's father knew mine.

00:30:28His people asked me to stay with him one summer.

00:30:32I met his sister then.

00:30:35Yes?

00:30:37First I thought of her just as another kid like Raleigh.

00:30:40It wasn't until just before I came out here for the first time

00:30:43that I realised what a topping girl she really is.

00:30:47Funny how you realise things suddenly, isn't it, uncle?

00:30:51You know, I just prayed to come through this war.

00:30:55Do things.

00:30:57Keep absolutely fit for her.

00:31:00You've done pretty well.

00:31:02An M.C. in the company.

00:31:04Oh, it was all right at first.

00:31:07It was when I came back here.

00:31:09After that awful affair on Bimmy Ridge.

00:31:12Realised I'd go mad if I didn't break the strain.

00:31:15Couldn't bear to be fully conscious all the time.

00:31:19You've felt like that, uncle, haven't you?

00:31:21Yes, often.

00:31:23Well, there are only two ways of breaking the strain.

00:31:26One was to go home and pretend you were ill.

00:31:30The other was this.

00:31:33Which would you pick, uncle?

00:31:35I don't know yet.

00:31:37It's a slimy thing to go home if you're not really ill, isn't it?

00:31:41I think so.

00:31:43Oh, churl!

00:31:45And long live the men who go home with new rails.

00:31:48When the war's over and the strain's gone,

00:31:50you'll be as fit as ever at your age.

00:31:53I hoped that all along.

00:31:55Go away for months,

00:31:57live in the open,

00:31:59get fit,

00:32:01and then go back to her.

00:32:03And so you can.

00:32:05If only I'd gone to one of those other 1,800 companies.

00:32:08But I don't see why...

00:32:10Oh, for the Lord's sake, uncle, don't be a damn fool.

00:32:12You know.

00:32:14You know he'll write home and tell her I reek of whiskey all day.

00:32:18She's very young.

00:32:20She's got hundreds of strange things to learn.

00:32:23She'll realize that men are different out here.

00:32:26It's no good, uncle.

00:32:28Didn't you see him at supper,

00:32:30sitting there,

00:32:32staring at me,

00:32:34and wondering?

00:32:37He's out on those trenches now.

00:32:40Still wondering.

00:32:42And beginning to understand.

00:32:44I believe Raleigh will go on liking you.

00:32:48Oh.

00:32:50Do you?

00:32:54You know, uncle,

00:32:56I'm captain of this company.

00:32:58Well,

00:33:00what does that little prig of a boy matter, eh?

00:33:03Little prig, that's what he is.

00:33:05Thinks he's going to write home and tell Madge all about me.

00:33:09Well, he won't.

00:33:11You see, uncle, he won't write.

00:33:13Censorship.

00:33:15I censor his letters.

00:33:17Cross out all he says about me.

00:33:18You can't read his letters.

00:33:20Cross out all he says about men.

00:33:22We all go west in the big attack.

00:33:26And she goes on thinking I'm a fine fellow.

00:33:29Forever.

00:33:31Ever.

00:33:37Come on, old chap.

00:33:39Come and lie down over here.

00:33:41Did I ask him to force his way into my company?

00:33:45Go away!

00:33:46What are you trying to do?

00:33:48Come and lie down and go to sleep.

00:33:50Go to sleep yourself.

00:33:56I censor his letters.

00:33:58You see, uncle?

00:34:00Right-o.

00:34:02Now, come on.

00:34:04Come and lie down and go to sleep.

00:34:06You've had a hard day of it.

00:34:10Where's Hardy?

00:34:12Did you say he'd gone?

00:34:14Yes, he's gone.

00:34:17He would go, the lazy swine.

00:34:21Why don't you tell him to keep those trenches clean?

00:34:24We'll clean them up tomorrow.

00:34:29Well, uncle,

00:34:31clean trenches up with a little dustpan and broom, eh?

00:34:34Make you a little white apron with a lace on it.

00:34:37That'll be fine.

00:34:39Come on, come and lie down.

00:34:41I'll see you get called at two o'clock.

00:34:43You must be tired.

00:34:46Got to.

00:34:48I'm damn tired.

00:34:54I feel sick.

00:34:56You'll be all right in a minute.

00:34:58Come on.

00:35:00There we go.

00:35:04How's that? Comfortable?

00:35:06Yes.

00:35:08Comfortable.

00:35:10Get up, uncle. Tuck me up.

00:35:13There you are.

00:35:14Kiss me, uncle.

00:35:16Kiss you? You'll be hanged. You go to sleep.

00:35:19All right.

00:35:21I go to sleep.

00:35:28Mason.

00:35:30Yes, sir?

00:35:34Will you call me at ten minutes to eleven?

00:35:36I'm going to turn in for a while.

00:35:38Very good, sir.

00:35:40The pepper's come, sir.

00:35:42Good.

00:35:44Thank you, sir.

00:35:46Good night.

00:35:48Good night.

00:36:15Filthy rats.

00:36:17You get him?

00:36:19Yes, but kicking does no good.

00:36:21It only makes them malicious.

00:36:23So many rats. What on earth do they live on?

00:36:27Whatever they can get.

00:36:29Oh.

00:36:31I wish I'd saved that cutlet to give them.

00:36:33Might have done a few in.

00:36:35How long have we been up?

00:36:37About two hours, fifty-six minutes, and...

00:36:40I don't know.

00:36:41About two hours, fifty-six minutes, and...

00:36:44Hello, my second hand's broke.

00:36:46We go down soon.

00:36:48Three minutes' time.

00:36:50Doesn't seem long.

00:36:52I suppose it's because everything's so quiet.

00:37:00Hello, uncle. Have a nice nap?

00:37:03Very pleasant, thanks.

00:37:05What's the matter with you?

00:37:07Nothing. It's quiet.

00:37:11All right, Raleigh?

00:37:13Yes, thanks.

00:37:15All right. He's a blooming veteran, aren't you, Raleigh?

00:37:17Now go down and take a nap.

00:37:19Go quietly. Stand up to sleep.

00:37:21Right-o.

00:37:23If I can be of any use, sir, I'd be glad to stay up longer.

00:37:25Nonsense. You go and get some sleep.

00:37:27Right-o.

00:37:29Pepper's come.

00:37:31He does?

00:37:33Good.

00:37:41Stand up. Uncle said you were asleep.

00:37:44Did he?

00:37:46Well, I'm not.

00:37:53Better go to bed, Raleigh.

00:37:55Good night, Stanhope.

00:38:06Am I a very drunk fellow?

00:38:12Oh, there you are.

00:38:14Hello.

00:38:18Cold?

00:38:20No.

00:38:23Just thinking.

00:38:25Lovely morning, isn't it?

00:38:28Beautiful.

00:38:30So far.

00:38:32I suppose.

00:38:34I suppose.

00:38:36I suppose.

00:38:38I suppose.

00:38:39Beautiful.

00:38:41So far.

00:38:43The colonel's here.

00:38:45Oh, is he?

00:38:47Yes, he's out in the sap. He wants to see you.

00:38:49Right.

00:38:51You better go and get your breakfast.

00:38:53How about the wire?

00:38:55I'll see to that. Come up as soon as you've finished.

00:38:57Right-o.

00:39:10Oh, good morning, Stanhope.

00:39:12Morning, sir.

00:39:14It's been quiet, hasn't it?

00:39:16Very, sir.

00:39:18The big attack's coming soon.

00:39:20Looks like it.

00:39:22B Company got a German prisoner last night.

00:39:24Oh?

00:39:26Did they get anything out of him?

00:39:28He gave the date of the attack as the 21st.

00:39:3121st?

00:39:33That's the day after tomorrow?

00:39:35Yes.

00:39:36Probably at dawn.

00:39:38Very probably.

00:39:40When it does come,

00:39:42you mustn't expect too much support from behind.

00:39:44Very good, sir.

00:39:46You'll just have to stay here as long as you can.

00:39:48Right, sir.

00:39:51You better see about getting that wire strengthened.

00:39:53Right, sir.

00:39:55Have you got plenty of ammunition?

00:39:57Yes, sir.

00:39:59Right.

00:40:01Cheer-o.

00:40:03Cheer-o, sir.

00:40:07What a lovely smell of bacon.

00:40:09Yes, sir.

00:40:11I reckon there's enough smell of bacon here to last for dinner.

00:40:13Well, there's nothing like a good fat bacon-rasher

00:40:15when you're as empty as I am.

00:40:17I'm glad you like it fat, sir.

00:40:19Well, I like a bit of lean, too.

00:40:21There was a bit of lean in the middle of yours,

00:40:23but it kind of shrunk up in the cooking, sir.

00:40:25Bad cooking, that's all.

00:40:27Any porridge?

00:40:29Yes, sir. There's porridge.

00:40:31Lumpy, I suppose.

00:40:33Yes, sir. Quite nice and lumpy.

00:40:34Just bring her the gravy.

00:40:36Very good, sir.

00:40:43Do you know? Mason's getting familiar.

00:40:45He's not a bad cook.

00:40:49I say, do you realize he's washed his dishcloth?

00:40:52I know. I told him about it.

00:40:54Did you really? You have got some pluck.

00:40:57I've took the lumps out, sir.

00:40:59Good. Keep them and use them for dumplings.

00:41:01Next time we have boiled beef.

00:41:02Very good, sir.

00:41:05I thought you were on duty now.

00:41:07I'm supposed to be.

00:41:09Stanhope sent me down to get me breakfast.

00:41:11He's looking after things till I finish.

00:41:13He's got a long job, then.

00:41:15Oh, no. I'm a quick eater.

00:41:17Mason, bacon.

00:41:19Coming, sir.

00:41:21It's a wonderful morning.

00:41:23Lovely, ain't it?

00:41:25Makes you feel sort of young and hopeful.

00:41:28Oh, that looks all right.

00:41:29If you look down straight on it from above, sir,

00:41:31you can see the middling quite clear.

00:41:33Good Lord, yes.

00:41:35That's it, isn't it?

00:41:37No, sir.

00:41:39That's a bit of rust off the pan.

00:41:41Oh, well, that's it.

00:41:43You've got it, sir.

00:41:45Throw us a chunk of bread, uncle.

00:41:54How are things going up there?

00:41:56I don't like the look of things a bit.

00:41:57You mean the quiet?

00:41:59Too damn quiet.

00:42:01You can bet your boots the boss is up to something.

00:42:03It's a big attack soon, I reckon.

00:42:05I don't like it, uncle.

00:42:07What's the jam?

00:42:09It's strawberry.

00:42:11Oh, is it?

00:42:13I'm glad you got rid of that raspberry jam.

00:42:15Can't stand raspberry jam.

00:42:17Pips get behind your plate.

00:42:19Stanhope done anything about the wire?

00:42:21He's looking after it now.

00:42:23My goodness, uncle.

00:42:25Doesn't he know what he's doing?

00:42:27He looks ill.

00:42:29Yes, I'm afraid he's not well.

00:42:32Look at the sun.

00:42:34It'll be quite warm soon.

00:42:36Lovely, ain't it?

00:42:38Hope we have hot summer.

00:42:40So do I.

00:42:42Funny about it being summer out here, too.

00:42:45Makes me think of my garden of an evening.

00:42:48Walking around in me slippers after supper.

00:42:51Smoking me pipe.

00:42:53Are you keen on gardening?

00:42:55Had some fine olive oaks.

00:42:57Made me die.

00:42:58Did you really?

00:42:59Took a photo of it.

00:43:00Would you like to see it?

00:43:01I should.

00:43:02Here.

00:43:07Now, you see that there?

00:43:08Yes.

00:43:09That's the roof of the summer house.

00:43:11Is it really?

00:43:12Just shows the height of the olive oaks.

00:43:14So it does.

00:43:15Beauty, isn't it?

00:43:16Rather.

00:43:17They'll be coming out again soon if they have this sun at home.

00:43:20I reckon they will.

00:43:22I remember one morning last spring.

00:43:25We were coming out of the salient.

00:43:27It was about the time the boss was sending over that gas

00:43:30that smells like pear drops, you know.

00:43:33I know. Fuzzy.

00:43:34Fuzzy, that's it.

00:43:35We were all scared to hell of it.

00:43:37And all of a sudden, we smelt that funny, sweet smell.

00:43:40And a fella shouted gas, and we all put on our masks.

00:43:43And then I spotted what it was.

00:43:45What was it?

00:43:46Why, a blink in my tree.

00:43:48All that in full bloom and growing beside me.

00:43:49All that in full bloom and growing beside the boss.

00:43:54Oh, we felt like a lot of silly boobs

00:43:56putting on gas masks because of a damn my tree.

00:44:02Oh, Lord, I must get my fat down.

00:44:06Well, I'll go and relieve Stano.

00:44:09He'll curse like hell if I don't.

00:44:13I'll bet he's got a red hot liver this morning.

00:44:16Well, cheer out.

00:44:17Cheer out.

00:44:38Well, what do you think about it all?

00:44:40Oh, all right.

00:44:42I feel as if I'd been here ages.

00:44:44I expect you do.

00:44:45Time passes, though.

00:44:47Are we here for six days?

00:44:49Yes. Seems a long time, doesn't it?

00:44:51It does, rather.

00:44:53I can't imagine the end of six days here.

00:44:55How did you feel in the front line?

00:44:57Oh, quite all right.

00:44:59Everything so frightfully quiet.

00:45:01Everybody talking in low voices.

00:45:03I suppose you've got to talk quietly

00:45:05when you're so near the German front line.

00:45:07About 70 yards, isn't it?

00:45:09Yes. About the breadth of a rugger field.

00:45:11Oh, it's funny to think of it like that.

00:45:13I always measure distances like that out here.

00:45:15In proportion.

00:45:16Did you play rugger?

00:45:17Yes.

00:45:18Mostly reffing at school in the last few years.

00:45:20You a schoolmaster, then?

00:45:22Yes.

00:45:24I must apologize.

00:45:26Oh, I don't mind schoolmasters.

00:45:29I mean, I've never met one outside of school before.

00:45:32They do get out sometimes.

00:45:35Who did you play for?

00:45:37The Harlequins.

00:45:38I say, really?

00:45:40I played for the English team on one great occasion.

00:45:42What, England?

00:45:43Yeah, I was awfully lucky to get the chance.

00:45:45Long time ago now.

00:45:52I say, the Germans really are quite decent, aren't they?

00:45:55I mean, I remember about wipers.

00:45:57One of our men on patrol got shot just about dawn.

00:46:01That night, three of our fellows crawled out to bring him in.

00:46:04It was so near the German trenches,

00:46:06they could have shot our fellows down one by one.

00:46:09When they started to drag the wounded man back

00:46:11over the broken ground,

00:46:12a big German officer stood up in their trenches

00:46:14and cried out, carry him.

00:46:16And our men stood up and carried him back.

00:46:20The German officer fired some lights for them to see by.

00:46:23And the next day, we blew each other's trenches to blazes.

00:46:28It all seems rather silly, doesn't it?

00:46:30It does, rather.

00:46:33I started a letter when I came off duty last night.

00:46:35How does one send letters?

00:46:37A quartermaster sergeant takes them down

00:46:39after he's brought up rations in the evening.

00:46:40I think I'll go and finish it now.

00:46:42Right-o.

00:46:51Hello, staff.

00:46:53What a foul smell of bacon.

00:46:55We got bacon for breakfast.

00:46:57So I gathered.

00:47:04Would you like a nice bit of bacon, sir?

00:47:06No, thanks.

00:47:08Bring me a cup of tea.

00:47:10Very good, sir.

00:47:16Would you like a nice plate of sardines, sir?

00:47:18I should loathe it.

00:47:20Very good, sir.

00:47:24Sardines.

00:47:27Mason's got no imagination.

00:47:29I don't suppose he has.

00:47:31Funny not to have any imagination.

00:47:33Must be rather nice.

00:47:35Rather dull, I should think.

00:47:37I suppose all his life, Mason feels like you and I do.

00:47:39When we're drowsily drunk.

00:47:41Poor chap.

00:47:44I suppose if Mason were to look at that wall there,

00:47:46he'd just see a brown surface.

00:47:50He wouldn't see the earth beyond

00:47:53the worms wandering about among the stones

00:47:55and the roots of trees.

00:47:59I wonder how a worm knows when it's going up or down.

00:48:02I expect when it's going down,

00:48:04the blood runs to its head and makes it throb.

00:48:06Worms haven't got any blood.

00:48:08I don't suppose it ever does, no.

00:48:10Rotten if it didn't.

00:48:12Went on going down and thought it was coming up.

00:48:14I expect that's the one thing worms dread.

00:48:18I suppose if Mason were to look up at the sky at night,

00:48:23he'd just see the stars.

00:48:26He wouldn't see the space beyond the stars

00:48:29that makes you sick and giddy

00:48:31and want to cling on to something.

00:48:35Do you think this life sharpens the imagination?

00:48:36Must do.

00:48:38I was looking across at the Bosch trenches

00:48:41and right beyond,

00:48:43not a sound or a soul,

00:48:45just an enormous plain

00:48:47all churned up like a sea

00:48:49that's got muddier and muddier

00:48:51till it's so stiff it can't move.

00:48:54You could have heard a pin drop in the quiet.

00:48:57Yet you knew that thousands of guns were hidden there,

00:48:59already oiled and cleaned.

00:49:01Millions of bullets lying in the pouches.

00:49:03Thousands of dead bodies.

00:49:04Thousands of bodies lying in the pouches.

00:49:06Thousands of Germans all watching,

00:49:09waiting, thinking.

00:49:14And gradually that feeling came over me.

00:49:16Yes, I know.

00:49:19Whenever I look at anything nowadays,

00:49:21I seem to see right through it.

00:49:26Looking at you now,

00:49:28there's your uniform, jersey, shirt, vest,

00:49:31your chest,

00:49:32and beyond that...

00:49:34Yes, leave it at that.

00:49:36You don't think I'm going potty, do you?

00:49:38Good Lord, no.

00:49:40A bit of nerve strain, that's all.

00:49:42Oh, that's all right, then.

00:49:44Mason!

00:49:46Yes, sir?

00:49:48Bring some mugs and a bottle of whiskey.

00:49:50Yes, sir.

00:49:52So early in the morning?

00:49:54Just a spot.

00:49:56It's damn cold here.

00:50:02This show at the Hippodrome

00:50:04has been running a long time.

00:50:06Zig Zag.

00:50:08Harper saw it in his last leave.

00:50:10Says it's damn good.

00:50:12Wish I'd seen a show on leave.

00:50:14You mean to say you haven't been to any shows?

00:50:16No.

00:50:18I spend most of the time in the garden.

00:50:20In the evenings, I used to sit and read

00:50:22and smoke my pipe a bit.

00:50:24My wife used to play the piano.

00:50:26We forgot there was a war

00:50:28till my two youngsters made me play

00:50:30as soldiers with them on the floor.

00:50:33Are you going to have one?

00:50:35No, not now, please.

00:50:43Where's Raleigh?

00:50:45Finishing a letter.

00:50:47Did you tell him?

00:50:49About what?

00:50:51Censorship.

00:50:53Good Lord, you don't mean that seriously.

00:50:55Mean it? Of course I mean it.

00:50:57But you can't read his letters.

00:50:59I'm supposed to read all your letters.

00:51:00Imagine yourself in my place.

00:51:02Imagine a letter going away from here, from that boy.

00:51:04He'll say nothing rotten about you?

00:51:06Oh, you think so?

00:51:08You should have seen him last night

00:51:10when he came in with Trotter and looked at me.

00:51:12I was sitting here,

00:51:14having a drink.

00:51:17He looked at me as if I'd hit him between the eyes.

00:51:20As if I'd spat at him.

00:51:22You imagine things.

00:51:24Imagine things.

00:51:26There's no need to imagine.

00:51:28Why can't you treat him like any other youngster?

00:51:30Hey, Kripos.

00:51:32You don't even bother if the woodwork's a bit dirty.

00:51:34Just the barrels, magazines and all the metal parts.

00:51:36Oh, right-o.

00:51:38See, there's plenty of oil on them.

00:51:40Look at the ammunition in the men's pouches.

00:51:42Right.

00:51:44Where do we put letters to be collected?

00:51:46Just leave them on the table.

00:51:48All right.

00:51:50You leave it open.

00:51:52Open?

00:51:54Yes, I have to censor all letters.

00:51:56Oh, but I haven't said anything about where we are.

00:51:58It's the rule that all letters must be read.

00:52:01I'll just leave it then.

00:52:03Give me that letter.

00:52:05But Dennis...

00:52:06Give me that letter.

00:52:07But it's private, I didn't know...

00:52:08Do you understand an order?

00:52:09Give me that letter.

00:52:10But I tell you, there's nothing.

00:52:11Dennis!

00:52:12Don't Dennis me!

00:52:13Scarab's my name.

00:52:14You're not at school now.

00:52:16Don't inspect your rifles.

00:52:20Do you understand an order?

00:52:23All right.

00:52:31Good heavens.

00:52:33Look, your husband.

00:52:34I'm commanding this company.

00:52:35Very well.

00:52:45Order.

00:52:46I don't want to read the thing.

00:52:48You'll let it go then?

00:52:50I don't care.

00:52:52Shall I glance through it for you?

00:52:54If you like it.

00:52:55I don't want to.

00:52:58You'd better.

00:53:00I can't.

00:53:14Do you want to hear?

00:53:16I suppose I'd better know.

00:53:18Starts off with a description of his getting here.

00:53:21Doesn't mention the names of any places.

00:53:23What does he say then?

00:53:25The next bit's about you.

00:53:26Go on.

00:53:28He says,

00:53:29and now I come to the great news.

00:53:32I was told to report to C Company Captain Stanhope

00:53:35and was taken along some trenches and shown the dugout.

00:53:38There was an awfully nice officer there,

00:53:39quite old, with grey hair.

00:53:43Then a little later, Dennis came in.

00:53:46He looked tired,

00:53:47but that's because he worked so frightfully hard.

00:53:50Then I went on duty in the front lines.

00:53:52And the sergeant told me all about it.

00:53:54He said that Dennis is the finest officer in the battalion.

00:53:57The men simply love him.

00:53:59He makes them keen about things.

00:54:02Like he did the kids at school.

00:54:05I'm awfully proud to think he's my friend.

00:54:10That's all?

00:54:13Shall I stick it down?

00:54:18Yes, please.

00:54:20Yes, please.

00:54:43Corporal Burt said you wanted to see me, sir.

00:54:45I want to talk to Major.

00:54:46Yes, sir.

00:54:49Now look here.

00:54:50We must expect this attack on Thursday morning at dawn.

00:54:54That's the second dawn from now.

00:54:56Thursday morning.

00:54:58Very good, sir.

00:54:59We're to hold these trenches and no man's to move from here.

00:55:02I see, sir.

00:55:03Now it may happen that the companies on our sides will give way,

00:55:07leaving our flanks exposed.

00:55:09So I want a belt of wire put on both our flanks

00:55:13to meet the wire in the support line.

00:55:15Both flanks?

00:55:17Yes, sir.

00:55:18When the attack begins,

00:55:20I'll take charge from the left,

00:55:22Mr. Osborne the right.

00:55:24You'll be with Mr. Osborne.

00:55:26I see, sir.

00:55:28Is there anything you're not clear about?

00:55:31Seems all clear to me, sir.

00:55:33Anything you want to know?

00:55:35Well, sir, when the attack comes, of course we beat them off.

00:55:38But what if they keep on attacking?

00:55:40We keep on beating them off.

00:55:42Would you order me to fix something up about falling back, sir?

00:55:45There's no need to.

00:55:46You see, we should be able to fire into the Bosch

00:55:49as they try and get through the gaps on our sides.

00:55:52We'll make the hell of a mess of them.

00:55:54Yes, sir.

00:55:55But what happens when the Bosch has all got round the back of us?

00:55:57Then we advance and win the war.

00:55:59Win the war. I see, sir.

00:56:02Hello.

00:56:03Anything else, sir?

00:56:04I don't think so, thanks.

00:56:05Very good, sir.

00:56:07What is it?

00:56:08Oh, here you are.

00:56:09Colonel's down below. Wants to see you.

00:56:11I'll go right down.

00:56:17Hello, sir.

00:56:18Hello, Fennep.

00:56:21Lovely day.

00:56:22Splendid, sir.

00:56:24I'm glad we're alone, Fennep.

00:56:26I've got some rather serious news.

00:56:28I'm sorry to hear that, sir.

00:56:30Have a drink.

00:56:31Why, thanks. Just the spot.

00:56:33Here's luck.

00:56:34Cheer up.

00:56:39What is the news?

00:56:41Brigadier was up to see me this morning.

00:56:43He said he'd be back in a minute.

00:56:44Brigadier was up to see me this morning.

00:56:46It seems the Bosch began relieving his front line troops yesterday.

00:56:50And the General wants us to make a raid.

00:56:52To see who's coming to the line opposite here.

00:56:57I see.

00:56:59When?

00:57:00As soon as possible.

00:57:01He said tonight.

00:57:02That's absurd.

00:57:03I told him so.

00:57:05I said the earliest would be tomorrow afternoon.

00:57:08A surprise daylight raid under a smoke screen from the trench mortars.

00:57:12I suggest sending two officers and ten men.

00:57:16Tonight the trench mortars can blow a hole in the Bosch wire.

00:57:19You can cut a hole in yours.

00:57:20Very good, sir.

00:57:22I'll leave you to select the men, Fennep.

00:57:23You want me to go with the men?

00:57:25Oh no, Fennep. No, I couldn't let you go.

00:57:27Whom do you suggest?

00:57:29I'd suggest Osborne for one.

00:57:31He's a very level-headed chap.

00:57:33He can direct it.

00:57:34And who else?

00:57:36What about that youngster I sent up to you last night?

00:57:39Really, sir?

00:57:40Yes, just the type. Plenty of guts.

00:57:42But he's awfully new to it all.

00:57:44That's all to the good. His nerves are sound.

00:57:46Very good, sir.

00:57:48Right. Then I'll be up and see Osborne and Raleigh the first thing tomorrow morning.

00:57:51Right, sir.

00:57:53It's all a damn nuisance, but after all, it's necessary.

00:57:56I suppose it is.

00:57:58Well, cheerio, Fennep.

00:58:00Cheerio, sir.

00:58:11Hello. I thought you were asleep.

00:58:14I wanted a word with you, Stannop.

00:58:16Far away?

00:58:21Well, this neuralgia of mine,

00:58:25I'm awfully sorry, I'm afraid I can't stick it any longer.

00:58:28I know.

00:58:30Rotten, isn't it?

00:58:32I've got it like hell.

00:58:34You have?

00:58:36Had it for weeks.

00:58:37Well...

00:58:39I'm sorry, Stannop, but I can't help it.

00:58:41I've tried damned hard, but I must go down.

00:58:44Go down?

00:58:46Where?

00:58:48Why, go sick. Go down the line.

00:58:50I must go into hospital and have some kind of treatment.

00:58:54I'll go right along now, I think.

00:58:56You're going to stay here?

00:58:58I'm going down to see the doctor.

00:59:00He'll send me to hospital when he understands.

00:59:02I've seen the doctor. I saw him this morning.

00:59:04He won't send you to hospital, Hibbert.

00:59:05He'll send you back here.

00:59:07So you can save yourself a walk.

00:59:09What the hell?

00:59:11I've a perfect right to go sick if I want to.

00:59:13The men can. Why can't an officer?

00:59:15There's nothing the matter with you, Hibbert.

00:59:17The German attacks on Thursday, almost for certain.

00:59:20You're going to stay here and see it through with the rest of us.

00:59:23I tell you I can't.

00:59:25The pain's nearly sending me mad.

00:59:27I'm going. I'm going now. You can't stop me.

00:59:35Let's go.

00:59:51Let's get by, Stanhope.

00:59:53You're going to stay here and do your job.

00:59:55Haven't I told you I can't? Let me get by.

00:59:57Not okay, Hibbert.

00:59:59Once and for all you're going to stay here

01:00:01and see it through with the rest of us.

01:00:03I shall die of this pain if I don't go.

01:00:05What do you mean?

01:00:07You know what I mean.

01:00:09I've a right to see a doctor.

01:00:11Don't you understand? He'll only send you back here.

01:00:13Dr. Preston's never let a shirker past him yet.

01:00:16He's not going to start now, two days before the attack.

01:00:19Stanhope, only you knew how awful I feel.

01:00:21Do please let me get by.

01:00:23Let me. Please.

01:00:31You little swine.

01:00:33Let me go.

01:00:35I'm going to desert you.

01:00:37I'd rather spay you with a disgrace.

01:00:39I'll give you half a minute to decide.

01:00:41Either you stay here and try and be a man

01:00:44or you try and get through that door there to desert.

01:00:46And if you do that, there's going to be an accident.

01:00:48Do you understand?

01:00:50I'm fiddling with my revolver, cleaning it, you see,

01:00:52and it's going off by accident.

01:00:54It often happens out here.

01:00:56It's going off and it's going to shoot you between the eyes.

01:00:59You dare tell me...

01:01:01I'll give you half a minute to decide.

01:01:03Half a minute from now.

01:01:05You won't let me go to hospital

01:01:07and I swear I'll never go in those trenches again.

01:01:09Shoot him, thank God.

01:01:11Fifteen more seconds.

01:01:13Go on, I'm ready.

01:01:16Ten.

01:01:20Five.

01:01:32Good man, Hebert.

01:01:33I like the way you stuck there.

01:01:35Why didn't you shoot?

01:01:37Go on, stay here and feed through with the rest of us.

01:01:44Stand up, I've tried like hell.

01:01:46I swear I have.

01:01:48Ever since I came out here, I've hated and loathed it.

01:01:50Every sound up there makes me feel all cold and sick.

01:01:53I'm different from the others.

01:01:55You don't understand.

01:01:57Christ.

01:01:59I'll never go up in those awful trenches again

01:02:01with a man looking at me and knowing

01:02:03I'd rather die here.

01:02:15Here, try a drop of this.

01:02:18No, thanks.

01:02:20Go on, man, drink it.

01:02:28I know how you feel, Hitler.

01:02:29I know how you feel, Hebert.

01:02:31I've known all along.

01:02:33How can you know?

01:02:35Because I feel the same, exactly the same.

01:02:37Every little noise out there makes me feel,

01:02:39just as you feel.

01:02:41Why couldn't you tell me

01:02:43instead of talking about neuralgia?

01:02:45I can't bear to go in those awful trenches again.

01:02:47When are you due to go on again?

01:02:49Quite soon, at four.

01:02:52Well, shall we go on together?

01:02:54We both know how we feel now.

01:02:56Shall we see if we can stick together?

01:02:57I can't.

01:02:59Supposing the worst happened

01:03:01and you got knocked right out?

01:03:03Well, think of all the topping fellows

01:03:05who've gone already.

01:03:11Can't be very lonely there

01:03:13with all those fellows.

01:03:19Sometimes I feel it's lonelier here.

01:03:28Go on.

01:03:30Go and have a good rest

01:03:32and we go out together, eh?

01:03:34Stand up, do please, let me go.

01:03:36If you did, could you ever look a decent man again

01:03:38in the face in all your life?

01:03:40You might get wounded.

01:03:42Then you can go home and feel proud.

01:03:44And if you're killed,

01:03:46you won't have to stand this hell anymore.

01:03:50Go on.

01:03:52Seed through, old man.

01:03:57Quiet.

01:04:00It's the only decent thing a man can do.

01:04:05What about it?

01:04:10I'll try.

01:04:12Good man.

01:04:23Look, you...

01:04:25You won't say anything about this

01:04:27to the others, Stanhope?

01:04:29If you promise not to tell anyone

01:04:31what a blasted rotter I am, God, no.

01:04:33That's right.

01:04:35Now you go out and have a smoke and a rest for 10 minutes

01:04:37and we go up together and hold each other's hands

01:04:39and jump every time a rat squeaks.

01:04:41Right.

01:04:43I mean to pull through, don't you?

01:04:45Yes, rather.

01:04:52It's awfully decent of you, Stanhope.

01:04:54Thanks, most awfully.

01:04:56That's all right.

01:05:15Would you like a nice cup of tea, sir?

01:05:19Can you guarantee it's nice?

01:05:21Well, sir, it's a little bit oniony

01:05:22but that's only because of the sauce.

01:05:24In other words, it's onion soup with tea leaves in it.

01:05:27Not for dinner time, sir.

01:05:29All right, Mason.

01:05:31Bring two cups of onion tea.

01:05:33One for Mr. Hibbert.

01:05:35Very good, sir.

01:05:37Would you like a nice cup of tea, sir?

01:05:39Yes, please, Mason.

01:05:41Plenty of bread and butter.

01:05:43Strawberry jam.

01:05:45Very good, sir.

01:05:47Hello, uncle.

01:05:49How are things up there?

01:05:50Very little doing.

01:05:53The colonel's been talking to me.

01:05:55About the attack?

01:05:57Partly.

01:05:59We've got to make a raid, uncle.

01:06:01Oh?

01:06:03When?

01:06:05Tomorrow afternoon, under a smoke screen.

01:06:07Two officers, ten men.

01:06:09I see.

01:06:11Who's going?

01:06:13You and Raleigh.

01:06:16Oh.

01:06:17Why Raleigh?

01:06:19The colonel picked you to direct,

01:06:21Raleigh to dash in.

01:06:23I see.

01:06:25The brigadier wants to know what's opposite here.

01:06:27Tomorrow.

01:06:30What time?

01:06:32I suggest five o'clock.

01:06:34A little before dusk.

01:06:36I see.

01:06:38I'm damn sorry.

01:06:40It's all right, old man.

01:06:42Will you fix up the men?

01:06:44Where do you go?

01:06:45I'll go and see the sergeant major now.

01:06:47And get him to go around for names.

01:06:55I shan't be long, uncle.

01:07:10Is tea ready?

01:07:12Yes.

01:07:13Oh, Lord, I do feel frizzy.

01:07:16Had a fine sleep, though.

01:07:18Bread's just come in, sir.

01:07:20Here's the strawberry jam.

01:07:22Tell me, mother, what is that

01:07:24that looks like strawberry jam?

01:07:26A shush, my dear.

01:07:28It is only par run over by a tram.

01:07:44Doesn't this tea taste of onions?

01:07:46Yes, it does a bit.

01:07:48Pity Mason doesn't wash his pots better.

01:07:50Mason, this tea tastes of onions.

01:07:53I'm very sorry, sir.

01:07:55Onions do have such a way of cropping up again.

01:07:58But we haven't had onions for days.

01:08:00I know, sir.

01:08:02That's what makes it so funny.

01:08:10What are you reading?

01:08:11Just a book.

01:08:13What's the title?

01:08:19Ever read it?

01:08:21Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

01:08:23Why, that's a kid's book.

01:08:25Yes.

01:08:27You aren't reading it?

01:08:29Yes.

01:08:31What, a kid's book?

01:08:33Haven't you read it?

01:08:35No.

01:08:37You ought to.

01:08:39How doth the little crocodile

01:08:41how cheerfully he seems to grin

01:08:43how neatly spread his claws

01:08:45and welcomes little fishes in

01:08:47with gently smiling jaws.

01:08:51I don't see no point in that.

01:08:53Exactly.

01:08:55That's just the point.

01:08:57You are a funny fella.

01:09:02Why's Ibbot got his tea in there?

01:09:04I don't know.

01:09:06Can't understand that little fella, can you?

01:09:08Who?

01:09:09Why, Ibbot.

01:09:11You ought to see his eyes.

01:09:13All red.

01:09:15He told me in there he'd got hay fever.

01:09:17Rotten thing, hay fever.

01:09:20If you ask me, he's been crying.

01:09:22Has he?

01:09:24I say, old chap, do you mind?

01:09:26I just want to get a letter off.

01:09:28Oh, sorry.

01:09:30They haven't collected the letters yet, then?

01:09:32Not yet.

01:09:34I'll get one off to my old lady.

01:09:36She's wrote and asked me if I've got fleas.

01:09:37Have you?

01:09:39I wish it was fleas.

01:09:48I say, that's told me about the raid.

01:09:50Has he?

01:09:52Just you and I, isn't it, and ten men?

01:09:54Yes, tomorrow, just about dusk.

01:09:56How exciting.

01:09:58Were you and I picked specially?

01:10:00Yes.

01:10:02I say.

01:10:07New chap's got the wire cutters.

01:10:09Yes, we're all right.

01:10:11There's a covering party out in front.

01:10:13I know.

01:10:16Come on, ask them to keep that blooming machine gun

01:10:18quiet while we're out.

01:10:20Right.

01:10:22Come on, boys, over you come.

01:10:24We've got to cut a good big hole in the wire

01:10:26for our fellas to crawl through on the raid tomorrow night.

01:10:28Come on, boys, over you go.

01:10:30Come on.

01:10:32Over you go, boys.

01:10:34Come on, let's go.

01:10:35Let's go.

01:10:40Bring your wires, come with me, come on.

01:10:42Come on, boys.

01:11:06Here, listen, what's that?

01:11:08What's that?

01:11:10Come on back, boys, everybody back.

01:11:12Come on back, come back.

01:11:14Come along down this hole here.

01:11:24Well, Osborne, everything ready?

01:11:26Yes, sir.

01:11:28The men are standing by three minutes to.

01:11:30Good.

01:11:32Mason.

01:11:33Men having their rum, uncle?

01:11:35Just as we left.

01:11:37Gives it a quarter of an hour to soak in.

01:11:39Are they cheerful?

01:11:41They're all right, sir.

01:11:43Will you go up and speak to them, sir?

01:11:45Don't you think the men would rather be left alone?

01:11:47I think they'd appreciate a word or two.

01:11:49Oh, all right, if you think they would.

01:11:51You coming, son?

01:11:53Yes, sir, I'll come.

01:11:55Well, good luck, Osborne.

01:11:57I'm sure you'll put up a good show.

01:11:59Thank you, sir.

01:12:01And, Raleigh, just dash in like blazes.

01:12:03Grab hold of the first boss you see

01:12:05and bundle him back across here.

01:12:07Right, sir.

01:12:09Remember, a great deal may depend on your bringing back a German.

01:12:11You never know.

01:12:13Well, good luck to both of you.

01:12:15Thank you, sir.

01:12:17Thanks, sir.

01:12:19Don't forget to empty your pockets of papers and things.

01:12:22Uh, sir.

01:12:24Hello?

01:12:26Just a moment.

01:12:28I say, don't think I'm being morbid or anything like that,

01:12:31but would you mind taking these?

01:12:33Sure.

01:12:35Till you come back, I'll tell.

01:12:37No, it's only just in case.

01:12:39If anything should happen,

01:12:41you might send them to my wife.

01:12:47You'll come back, all right.

01:12:49What on earth should I do without you?

01:12:51Goodness knows.

01:12:53I must have somebody to tuck me up in bed.

01:12:54Well, see you in the trench later on.

01:12:57Right-o.

01:13:02Have a spot of rum in that coffee before you go.

01:13:09Cheer up.

01:13:11Cheer up.

01:13:19Just time for a small pipe.

01:13:21Good, I'll have a cigarette.

01:13:23Here you are.

01:13:25I say, I'm always smoking yours.

01:13:27That's all right.

01:13:35What about this coffee?

01:13:37Sure.

01:13:52How do you feel?

01:13:54All right.

01:13:56I've got a sort of an empty feeling inside.

01:13:58That's just what I've got.

01:14:00A wind-up?

01:14:02I keep wanting to yaw.

01:14:04It'll pass off soon as we start.

01:14:06I wish we could go now.

01:14:08Got eight minutes yet.

01:14:10Oh, Lord.

01:14:13Let's just have a last look at the map.

01:14:18Now, here we are.

01:14:19When the smoke's thick enough, I'll give the signal.

01:14:22You make straight for that point there.

01:14:24When I get to the bosh wire, I lie down and wait for you.

01:14:27Don't forget to throw your bombs.

01:14:29No, I've got them here.

01:14:31When I shout, right-o, in you go with your eight men.

01:14:33Right-o.

01:14:35Then we come back like blazes.

01:14:40The whole thing will be over quite quickly.

01:14:42I think so.

01:14:44Now, let's forget all about it for six minutes.

01:14:46Oh, Lord, I can't.

01:14:47You must.

01:14:54I say, how topping if we get a German?

01:14:56Yes.

01:14:58Your coffee sweet enough?

01:15:00Yes, thanks.

01:15:08I wonder what the bosh are doing over there now.

01:15:10I don't know.

01:15:12Do you like coffee better than tea?

01:15:14I do for breakfast.

01:15:16Do these bombs make much row?

01:15:18Not much.

01:15:20Personally, I prefer cocoa for breakfast.

01:15:23I'm sorry.

01:15:25Why sorry?

01:15:27Why shouldn't I have cocoa for breakfast?

01:15:29I don't mean that.

01:15:31I mean...

01:15:34Will the bosh retaliate after the raid?

01:15:36Time has come, the war has said, to talk of many things.

01:15:38Of shoes, and ships, and stealing whacks,

01:15:41of cabbages and kings.

01:15:43And why the silence?

01:15:45The sea is boiling hot.

01:15:47And where the pigs have wings.

01:15:49Now we're off.

01:15:51Quick, let's talk about pigs.

01:15:53Black pigs or white pigs?

01:15:55Black pigs.

01:15:57In the New Forest, you find them quite wild.

01:15:59You know the New Forest?

01:16:01Rather.

01:16:03My home's down that way, near Lindhurst.

01:16:05I used to walk a lot around Lindhurst.

01:16:07So did Dennis and I.

01:16:09I wish we'd known you then, you could have come with us.

01:16:11I wish I had.

01:16:13You must come and stay with us one day.

01:16:15I know, we often used to look for them.

01:16:17You must come and help look one day.

01:16:19I'll find them all right.

01:16:24Is it time yet?

01:16:26Two minutes, and then we must go up.

01:16:29I wish we had a good hot bath waiting for us when we got back.

01:16:32So do I.

01:16:34We're having something special for dinner, aren't we?

01:16:36Yes.

01:16:38We've had a fresh chicken set up from Noyal Farm.

01:16:40I say.

01:16:42And a most awful luxury, two bottles of champagne,

01:16:43and two cigars.

01:16:45One each and one spare one in case one explodes.

01:16:48I've never smoked a cigar.

01:16:50It's bound to make you sick.

01:16:52I say, here's your ring.

01:16:56Yes, I know.

01:16:58I'm leaving it.

01:17:00I don't want the risk of losing it.

01:17:02Oh.

01:17:08I think we ought to get ready.

01:17:10Yes, right-o.

01:17:13Let's go.

01:17:31I'm not wearing a belt.

01:17:33Just the revolver with a lanyard round my neck.

01:17:36I feel better with this in my hand, don't you?

01:17:38Yes, something to hold on to.

01:17:43I hate leaving a pipe when it's got a good glow on the top like that.

01:17:47What a pity.

01:18:14I think we'd better go.

01:18:16Yes, right-o.

01:18:18I'm glad it's you and I together, Raleigh.

01:18:20Are you, really?

01:18:22Yes, so am I, awfully.

01:18:24We must put up a good show.

01:18:26Yes, rather.

01:18:28Let's go, shall we?

01:18:30Right-o.

01:18:33Good luck, Mr. Osborne.

01:18:35Good luck, Mr. Raleigh.

01:18:44Pardon.

01:18:48Hello, sir.

01:18:50Hello, uncle.

01:18:52All right.

01:19:05I'll give the signal from here.

01:19:07Yes, then.

01:19:09Over you go.

01:19:11Right-o.

01:19:13And you, keep as upright as you can, Raleigh, when you run in.

01:19:16So that if you get hit, it'll only get you in the legs.

01:19:19I see.

01:19:21Of course, they'll be firing blindly through smoke.

01:19:23Yes.

01:19:25Are your men ready?

01:19:27Yes, half a minute.

01:19:29Stand by.

01:19:31Ready, sir.

01:19:37Good luck, Raleigh, old boy.

01:19:40Come on.

01:19:43Real well.

01:20:13Come on.

01:20:44Come on.

01:21:00Come on, Raleigh.

01:21:02Raleigh, you can get that shell out through that bottom pit over there.

01:21:13Come on, Raleigh.

01:21:43Come on, Raleigh.

01:22:14All right, bring him down.

01:22:21All right, sonny, we ain't gonna hurt you.

01:22:27Come on, lad, get up.

01:22:44When did you come here?

01:22:46Last night.

01:22:49Where did you come from?

01:22:52What's that?

01:22:54You wish to know where I was born, huh?

01:22:56No.

01:22:57What town did you come up to the line from?

01:22:59I'll not tell you.

01:23:01Search him, Sergeant Major.

01:23:02Yes, sir.

01:23:09Looks like his pay book, sir.

01:23:10Good.

01:23:14Here, stop that.

01:23:15Let me.

01:23:16Let me please keep that.

01:23:19You let go.

01:23:26Looks like leathers.

01:23:27These will be useful.

01:23:30Anything else, Sergeant Major?

01:23:32Just a few oddments, sir.

01:23:33A piece of string, some fruit drops, pocket knife, and a stub of pencil, sir.

01:23:38Let him have these back, except the pocket knife.

01:23:40Very good, sir.

01:23:41Here you are, sonny.

01:23:43Thank you, Shane.

01:23:45All right, Sergeant Major, take him straight back to my headquarters.

01:23:47Very good, sir.

01:23:48Come on, Fritz, up you go.

01:23:53Come on, boys, take him around the house.

01:23:58Blended.

01:24:04Blended, stand up.

01:24:06We got all we wanted.

01:24:07Brigadier will be very pleased with you.

01:24:09How awfully nice, if the brigadier is pleased.

01:24:13What happened to the raiding party?

01:24:15Did they all come safely back?

01:24:19Did you expect them to be all safely back?

01:24:22What happened then?

01:24:27Four men and Raleigh came safely back.

01:24:33That means six men and husband and wife.

01:24:37Six men and husband?

01:24:43Yes.

01:24:46I'm very sorry.

01:24:48Poor husband.

01:24:51Still, it would be awfully nice if the brigadier is pleased.

01:24:55Pull yourself together, stand up.

01:24:58Do you know what happened to husband?

01:25:01Hand grenade, while he was waiting for Raleigh.

01:25:05And the six men?

01:25:07Machine gun bullets, I suppose.

01:25:12Blended, Raleigh, blended.

01:25:13Sit down and have a good rest.

01:25:15Stand up.

01:25:27Must you sit on husband's bed?

01:25:30Sorry.

01:25:35Sit down.

01:25:42If she doesn't do it now, she will never do it.

01:25:45Albert, give us a hand.

01:25:47Okay.

01:25:57She's a good sprinter, isn't she?

01:25:59She's a good sprinter.

01:26:05And what did she say to that?

01:26:08She said, not in these trousers, in French.

01:26:18So I simply drew myself up and I said,

01:26:20very well, mademoiselle, have it your own way.

01:26:23And she did?

01:26:24No, she didn't.

01:26:29You know, I'll never forget picking up a couple of tots one night

01:26:33and taking them out to dinner at Maidenhead.

01:26:35He's off again.

01:26:37We drank enough bubbly to sink a battleship.

01:26:40Float a battleship.

01:26:41Well, float a battleship, then.

01:26:44And then, if I didn't lose the way coming home,

01:26:47those tots began cursing me like hell,

01:26:49said I'd done it on purpose.

01:26:51I told them if they didn't jolly well shut up,

01:26:54I'd chuck them out in the road and leave them.

01:26:57You know, you're the sort of man that makes girls hard to please.

01:27:03Hooray!

01:27:06Is it a mother?

01:27:11You're doing yourself proud, aren't you, Mason?

01:27:13Thank you, sir.

01:27:14It's a good chicken, sir, except the legs.

01:27:17They seem a bit queer, sir.

01:27:19It's a spring chicken, isn't it, Mason?

01:27:23I think it was.

01:27:28You say it's out of the legs, Trotter?

01:27:30I am, yes.

01:27:31Good.

01:27:32Here's a toast to legs.

01:27:33God bless them.

01:27:34To legs.

01:27:35Hooray.

01:27:38I say, look, I've never shown you these, have I?

01:27:45Well, where on earth did you get these from?

01:27:47In Bethune.

01:27:48She's all right, isn't she?

01:27:50No, she's too fat.

01:27:52Isn't she, Trotter?

01:27:55Well, if you ask me, I'd rather have a decent picture of Margaret Peer.

01:28:01Well, you don't understand art, now.

01:28:03No.

01:28:04There's a nice pair of legs for you.

01:28:07Oh, no.

01:28:08Oh, these are too thin, aren't they, Trotter?

01:28:11Scraggy, I calls them.

01:28:14Mason.

01:28:15Yes, sir?

01:28:16Bring some whiskey.

01:28:17Very good, sir.

01:28:18What, whiskey on top of champagne?

01:28:20Oh, why not?

01:28:21It's all right.

01:28:22Sounds all wrong to me.

01:28:23I feel as if I've been blown up with a bicycle pump.

01:28:27Hasn't you look it, too?

01:28:30I'd like to tell you, sir, this is the last bottle.

01:28:33We've brought six.

01:28:35I know, sir, but five's gone.

01:28:37Oh, never mind.

01:28:38This will last till sunrise.

01:28:40Sunrise tomorrow, my lads.

01:28:42Oh, forget that.

01:28:43You bet we will, now then.

01:28:45Come on.

01:28:46Who's to follow whiskey?

01:28:47Yes, that's me.

01:28:48Well, I'm about all full up.

01:28:50Mason, I'd like a decent cup of tea.

01:28:52Very good, sir.

01:28:53I've got a little touch of palpitations.

01:28:56Tea?

01:28:57Then I'll go out and relieve young Raleigh.

01:29:00It's pretty he didn't come down to supper.

01:29:02Well, I told him to.

01:29:04I told him he'd come down for now.

01:29:06Let the sergeant major take over.

01:29:08I wonder why he didn't come.

01:29:10You know, that lad took in on his duty.

01:29:13Told me he liked being up there with the men

01:29:15better than down here with us.

01:29:17He said that?

01:29:18I reckon that ride shook him up more than we thought.

01:29:22Poor little bloke.

01:29:25He actually told you he preferred being up there with the men

01:29:29than down here with us?

01:29:31That's what he said.

01:29:32I hope he gets the MC, that's all.

01:29:36Hey, Braid, do you think I want to talk about it?

01:29:39I know, but after all...

01:29:41Well, shut up, Braid.

01:29:42I'm not going to talk about it.

01:29:44You didn't start it?

01:29:45I know, but after all...

01:29:47Well, shut up, then.

01:29:49Well, I know, but all right, all right.

01:29:51You're being quite jolly if you start babbling about the war.

01:29:54I didn't start it.

01:29:55You did.

01:29:56You started it.

01:29:57Well, for God's sake, stop it, then.

01:29:58All right, all right.

01:30:01Did I ever tell you the story about the girl I met in Soho?

01:30:04I don't know.

01:30:06I expect you did.

01:30:07Well, it'll amuse you.

01:30:10I'd been to a dance, and I was coming home quite late.

01:30:13It's getting late now.

01:30:15You go on duty at 11.

01:30:18You better go and get some sleep.

01:30:20It's all right.

01:30:21I'm as fresh as a daisy.

01:30:24I dare say you are.

01:30:26Go to bed.

01:30:28What?

01:30:29I said go to bed.

01:30:32Oh, I say.

01:30:34This is a nice end to a jolly evening.

01:30:37I'm sorry.

01:30:39I'm tired.

01:30:41Well, you better go to bed.

01:30:46What was that you said?

01:30:49Well, I was only joking.

01:30:51I asked you what you said.

01:30:55I said you better go to bed.

01:30:58Get out of here.

01:30:59What?

01:31:00For God's sake, get out of here.

01:31:01Why?

01:31:02What do you mean?

01:31:03Get out of my sight.

01:31:04What?

01:31:06What?

01:31:12All right.

01:31:19Little worm gets on my nerves.

01:31:21Poor little bloke.

01:31:23I've never seen him so cheerful out here before.

01:31:27Makes you sick.

01:31:30Oh.

01:31:37You know, I envy you, Father.

01:31:40Nothing ever upsets you.

01:31:42You're always the same.

01:31:44Always the same, am I?

01:31:46Oh, little you know.

01:31:49Well, I'll go and relieve young Raleigh.

01:31:54He missed a good supper, he did.

01:32:01Why, he is a bit postcards.

01:32:05Funny a bloke carrying things like that about with him.

01:32:09But as far as he's lost, I suppose.

01:32:11Poor little bloke.

01:32:15Ah, well, I'll go up and cool off.

01:32:18It's hot down here with all them candles burning.

01:32:23Cheer up.

01:32:25Cheer up.

01:32:28There's a bit of mist rising.

01:32:32Is there?

01:32:39Yes, sir.

01:32:59Miss?

01:33:00Yes, sir.

01:33:02Bring him Mr. Rye's dinner.

01:33:04Very good, sir.

01:33:09I thought I told you to come down to dinner at eight o'clock.

01:33:38I'm sorry, I didn't think you were...

01:33:40Well, you didn't think I was.

01:33:42Well, I didn't think you'd mind if I didn't.

01:33:44Well, why did you think I asked you if I didn't mind?

01:33:47I'm sorry.

01:33:49Well, we've kept your dinner for you. It's here.

01:33:53It's awfully good of you to have kept it for me, but I had something to eat up there.

01:33:57You had something to eat up there? What do you mean exactly?

01:34:01Well, they brought tea around while I was on duty.

01:34:03Are you telling me you've been feeding with the men?

01:34:06Well, they asked me to share.

01:34:07I don't care. I know you're new to all this,

01:34:10but I thought at least you'd have the common sense to leave the men alone with their meals.

01:34:14Do you think they want an officer prowling around, eating their rations, sucking up them like that?

01:34:19Why did they ask me then if they didn't mean it?

01:34:21Don't you know that they were making a fool of you?

01:34:23Why should they?

01:34:25So you know more about my men than I do.

01:34:29I'm sorry then if I was wrong.

01:34:32Well, sit down.

01:34:33It's all right, thanks.

01:34:36Sit down!

01:34:41I understand that you prefer being up there than in.

01:34:44I didn't say I...

01:34:45Don't lie!

01:34:46I'm not lying. Why should I lie?

01:34:47You insulted Trott and Hibber for not coming.

01:34:49You realized that, I suppose?

01:34:51I didn't mean to do anything like that.

01:34:53Well, you did.

01:34:54You know now, don't you?

01:34:58I say you know now, don't you?

01:35:01Yes, I'm sorry.

01:35:02My officers work together.

01:35:04I have no damn prigs.

01:35:06I didn't realize.

01:35:10I'm glad you didn't realize.

01:35:16Well, what are you looking at?

01:35:22Is there anything funny about me?

01:35:24No.

01:35:28I'm awfully sorry, Dennis, if I annoyed you by coming into your company.

01:35:32What on earth are you talking about?

01:35:34You resent my being here.

01:35:36What do you mean?

01:35:39You better sit down and eat your dinner before it gets cold.

01:35:41I'm not hungry, thanks.

01:35:43Oh, for God's sake, sit down and eat it like a man.

01:35:45I can't eat it, thanks.

01:35:47How are you going to eat your dinner?

01:35:48Oh, good God, don't you understand?

01:35:50How can I eat that?

01:35:52When Oswald's lying out there?

01:35:57God, you bloody little swine.

01:36:01You think I don't care?

01:36:03You think you're the only soul that cares?

01:36:05You think you can sit there and drink champagne and smoke cigars?

01:36:07The one man I could trust.

01:36:09My best friend.

01:36:11The one man I could talk to as man to man.

01:36:14Who understood everything.

01:36:16And you think I don't care?

01:36:18How can you?

01:36:19To forget, you bloody little fool.

01:36:21To forget.

01:36:23Don't you understand?

01:36:25To forget.

01:36:27Do you think there's no limit to what a man can bear?

01:36:35I'm awfully sorry, Dennis.

01:36:38I didn't understand.

01:36:40You don't know how I...

01:36:42Oh, go away, please.

01:36:44Please leave me alone.

01:36:54Can't I?

01:36:56Oh, get out.

01:36:58For God's sake, out.

01:37:00You want out?

01:37:02I'll take you out.

01:37:04I'll take you out.

01:37:10Go on.

01:37:11Who goes there?

01:37:16I'll take you out.

01:37:18I'll take you out.

01:37:25I'll take you out.

01:37:27I'll take you out.

01:37:29Napoleon, on horseback.

01:37:31And what about it?

01:37:33Advance, Napoleon, on horseback.

01:37:35But carry your horse outside.

01:37:38Come on, you blokes.

01:37:59All right.

01:38:07Well, what about it, Sergeant Cox?

01:38:09Wires all up, Sergeant Major.

01:38:11Right down both sides to the support line.

01:38:13Good.

01:38:15They'll have a bit of trouble breaking through that job.

01:38:18You'd better get some sleep.

01:38:20What time is it?

01:38:22About four o'clock, daylight in an hour.

01:38:24Think they'll attack this morning?

01:38:26I shouldn't wonder.

01:38:29Dismissed, James Chaps.

01:38:50Sir.

01:38:52Sir!

01:38:56Hello?

01:38:58Half past five, sir.

01:39:00All right.

01:39:02I was only half asleep.

01:39:06It's frightfully cold here.

01:39:08It's a cold dugout, this one, sir.

01:39:10I've made some more tea, though.

01:39:12Good. You might bring me some, will you?

01:39:14Very good, sir.

01:39:16And take some into the other officers in there and wake them up.

01:39:19Very good, sir.

01:39:28Wash and brush up, sir.

01:39:30I thought you were asleep.

01:39:32Oh, I had a nice sleep when I came off duty.

01:39:34What time is it?

01:39:36Half past five.

01:39:38Half past five.

01:39:40Sounds quiet enough up there.

01:39:42Yes.

01:39:45Hello, hello.

01:39:47Better call the others, Slighto.

01:39:49Oh, that's what I want.

01:39:51A decent cup of tea.

01:39:53Well.

01:39:57Well, I've got to go, sir.

01:39:59Ah, I see.

01:40:01Good night.

01:40:03Good night, sir.

01:40:13I'll see you by the river, sir.

01:40:15Well, good night, James.

01:40:17Good night.

01:40:19Good night.

01:40:21What time is it, Mason?

01:40:23Half past five, sir.

01:40:24I've made some more tea, sir.

01:40:27Oh, Lord.

01:40:32Mason.

01:40:33Yes, sir?

01:40:34As soon as you've cleared your kitchen,

01:40:35get dressed and join your procure in the line.

01:40:38Very good, sir.

01:40:39If things are right by 11 o'clock,

01:40:40come down and do your best to get us some lunch.

01:40:43I've got a packet of sandwiches for each gentleman, sir.

01:40:45Right.

01:40:52Right up.

01:40:53Yes, sir.

01:40:57Take this to battalion headquarters at once.

01:41:00No reply.

01:41:01Very good, sir.

01:41:03Take this to battalion headquarters at once.

01:41:06No reply.

01:41:07Very good, sir.

01:41:25Thank you kindly, Captain.

01:41:32Good morning, Sergeant Major.

01:41:33Good morning, sir.

01:41:34Wiring party's got in a force, sir.

01:41:36Made a decent job of it right down to the support line.

01:41:38Good.

01:41:39Everything quiet?

01:41:40It's all right opposite here, sir.

01:41:42But the guns are going hard down south.

01:41:44Every bombardment.

01:41:45Not sure it ain't creeping up here, sir.

01:41:47Very likely it is.

01:41:49The officers will be up in a minute.

01:41:51I've got to stay here for messages.

01:41:53But I'll be up as soon as things begin to happen.

01:41:55Very good, sir.

01:41:56Are the men having their tea?

01:41:57Yes, sir.

01:41:58Well, give them a good drop of rum.

01:41:59About half a game, sir?

01:42:00Yes.

01:42:01If the attack don't come, sir, how long are we to stand to?

01:42:03We must expect this attack any time up till midday.

01:42:06Very good, sir.

01:42:07All right, thanks.

01:42:08Bye, sir.

01:42:12Your sandwiches, sir.

01:42:14Half bully beef, half sardine.

01:42:16Sardine on top.

01:42:18How delicious.

01:42:20No petted foie gras?

01:42:23No what, sir?

01:42:24I say no petted foie gras?

01:42:26No, sir.

01:42:27The milkman hasn't been yet.

01:42:32All ready, Skipper.

01:42:33Want me to go up?

01:42:34Yes, better go up now.

01:42:35Have a look right round the line.

01:42:37Right-o.

01:42:38And send a runner down.

01:42:39Let me know how things are going.

01:42:41Right-o.

01:42:46Skipper.

01:42:48Rally.

01:42:52Do you want me to go up now?

01:42:53Yes.

01:42:54Trotter's gone.

01:42:55Right-o.

01:42:58Cheerio, Denny.

01:42:59Cheerio, Rally.

01:43:02Skipper.

01:43:04Skipper.

01:43:15Skipper.

01:43:20Come on, man.

01:43:21What you doing?

01:43:22You want me to go up now?

01:43:24Well, of course I do.

01:43:25The others have gone.

01:43:29Can I have some water?

01:43:30What do you want water for?

01:43:32Oh, I'm so frightfully thirsty.

01:43:35All that champagne and stuff dried my mouth up.

01:43:41Here you are.

01:43:42Didn't you have any tea?

01:43:44Yes.

01:43:45It's a bit sweet though.

01:43:46Skipper.

01:43:48Come on.

01:43:49Come on.

01:43:50Buck up, men.

01:43:51Oh, there's no appalling hurry, is there?

01:43:53You know, the longer you stay down here,

01:43:55the harder it will be for you to go up.

01:43:57I'll go right along now, sir.

01:43:59All right, Mason.

01:44:01Mr. Hibbet's going up now.

01:44:03You can go with him.

01:44:04Come on.

01:44:05Come on.

01:44:06Come on.

01:44:07Come on.

01:44:08Come on.

01:44:09Come on.

01:44:10Come on.

01:44:11Come on.

01:44:12Come on.

01:44:13Come on.

01:44:14Come on.

01:44:15Come on.

01:44:16can go with him. I'd like to if you don't mind sir I don't want to get lost. Mr.

01:44:22Hibbert will show you the way. Keep your men against the back wall of the trench as

01:44:26long as the shells are dropping behind them.

01:44:30Shero?

01:44:32Shero?

01:44:46Shero?

01:44:48Shero?

01:44:50Shero?

01:44:52Shero?

01:44:54Shero?

01:44:56Shero?

01:44:58Shero?

01:45:00Shero?

01:45:02Shero?

01:45:04Shero?

01:45:06Shero?

01:45:08Shero?

01:45:10Shero?

01:45:12Shero?

01:45:14Come on!

01:45:16Come on!

01:45:23Beginning to get up sir.

01:45:25Who's just been hit?

01:45:27Corporal Ross sir. He's been hit rather badly sir.

01:45:29Those are the shellings going over isn't it?

01:45:31Shells in behind sir. There's minis and rifle grenades along the front.

01:45:35The artillery's getting there.

01:45:37All right Sergeant Major Hicks.

01:45:39What I can do sir?

01:45:41What about the wounded?

01:45:43Getting them down.

01:45:45Shelling's pretty thick over Lances Alley.

01:45:47What about Foss Way?

01:45:49Pretty bad there too sir.

01:45:51Take anyone badly hit to the big dugout on the right.

01:45:53Very good sir.

01:45:55Keep a sharp lookout there lads.

01:45:57What's going on over there?

01:45:59Sergeant Major, I don't see what the men are standing to.

01:46:01The men aren't standing to sir.

01:46:03Look out for shellings!

01:46:09Hey you men!

01:46:11Come here!

01:46:13Come here!

01:46:15Come here!

01:46:17Come here!

01:46:19Come here!

01:46:21Come here!

01:46:23Hey you men!

01:46:25Come here!

01:46:27Break the barriers!

01:46:29Break the barriers!

01:46:41They're coming!

01:46:53They're coming!

01:47:03What is it Sergeant Major?

01:47:05Mr. Raleigh's been hit sir.

01:47:07A bit of shell's got him in the back sir.

01:47:09Badly?

01:47:11Afraid he's broke his spine sir. He can't move his legs.

01:47:15Bring him down here.

01:47:17Down here sir?

01:47:19Yes, down here, quickly.

01:47:21Down here.

01:47:51Take his head sir.

01:48:11He's fainted sir.

01:48:13He was conscious when I picked him up sir.

01:48:15Have they dressed the wound?

01:48:17Put a pad on it.

01:48:19Well go at once.

01:48:21Bring two men to the stretcher.

01:48:23We'll never get him down with them shells falling on Lance's alley sir.

01:48:25You hear what I say? Bring two men to the stretcher.

01:48:27Very good sir.

01:48:49Hello Dennis.

01:48:51Hello Jimmy.

01:48:53You got one quickly.

01:48:59How did I get down here?

01:49:01Sergeant Major brought you down.

01:49:05Something hit me in the back.

01:49:07Not to be cleaned over.

01:49:09I'm sure of it.

01:49:11I'm sure of it.

01:49:13I'm sure of it.

01:49:15I'm sure of it.

01:49:17Not to be cleaned over.

01:49:19Sort of winded me.

01:49:21I'm all right now.

01:49:23I'm all right now.

01:49:25Steady old boy, steady.

01:49:27Just lie quiet for a while.

01:49:29Just lie quiet for a while.

01:49:31I'll be much better if I get up and walk about.

01:49:33I'll be much better if I get up and walk about.

01:49:35It happened once before.

01:49:37I got kicked in the same place playing rugger.

01:49:39I got kicked in the same place playing rugger.

01:49:41Soon wore off.

01:49:43Just numbs a bit.

01:49:45Just numbs a bit.

01:49:51What's that rumbling noise?

01:49:53The guns are making a bit of a noise.

01:49:55The guns are making a bit of a noise.

01:49:57Our guns?

01:49:59No, mostly theirs.

01:50:05I say Dennis.

01:50:07Yes Jimmy.

01:50:09It hasn't gone through has it?

01:50:11It's only just hit me and knocked me down.

01:50:13Well, just gone through a bit Jimmy.

01:50:15Well, just gone through a bit Jimmy.

01:50:17But I won't have to go on lying here.

01:50:19No, I'm going to have you taken away.

01:50:21No, I'm going to have you taken away.

01:50:23Away? Where?

01:50:25To the dressing station.

01:50:27Then the hospital.

01:50:29Then home.

01:50:31You got a bloody one Jimmy.

01:50:33I can't go on lying here.

01:50:35I can't go on lying here.

01:50:37Just for knocking the back.

01:50:39I feel certain I'll be better if I get up.

01:50:41Ah!

01:50:43Ah!

01:50:45God, it does hurt.

01:50:47God, it does hurt.

01:50:49It's bound to hurt Jimmy.

01:50:51What's on my legs? What's holding them down?

01:50:53It's alright Jimmy, it's alright.

01:50:55Just the shock that's numbed them a bit.

01:50:57Just the shock that's numbed them a bit.

01:50:59That's all.

01:51:03It's awfully decent of you to bother Dennis.

01:51:05That's alright.

01:51:07I feel rotten lying here.

01:51:09Is there anybody else up there?

01:51:11It isn't your fault Jimmy.

01:51:13So damn silly getting hit.

01:51:17Is there just a drop of water?

01:51:19Sure.

01:51:21I've got some here.

01:51:33The tea leaves in it.

01:51:35Do you mind?

01:51:37No.

01:51:53I say Dennis.

01:51:55Yes Jimmy.

01:51:57Don't you stay?

01:51:59If you have to be getting on.

01:52:01That's alright.

01:52:03Can you stay for a bit?

01:52:05Uh-huh.

01:52:09I say Dennis.

01:52:11Yes Jimmy.

01:52:13Could we have a light?

01:52:15It's so frightfully dark.

01:52:17Cold.

01:52:19Sure.

01:52:21I'll get a candle and another blanket.

01:52:27Uh.

01:52:29Uh.

01:52:35Uh.

01:52:49There.

01:52:51Is that better Jimmy?

01:52:59Jimmy.

01:53:01Jimmy.

01:53:31Jimmy.

01:54:01Message from Mr. Trotter sir.

01:54:03Will you come at once?

01:54:05Mr. Trotter sir.

01:54:07Says will you come at once?

01:54:15Alright Broaden.

01:54:17I'm coming.

01:54:31I'm coming.

01:55:01I'm coming.

01:55:31I'm coming.

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