1 00:03:33,059 --> 00:03:35,811 He was the most extraordinary man I ever knew. 2 00:03:36,020 --> 00:03:38,147 Did you know him well? 3 00:03:38,564 --> 00:03:39,982 I knew him. 4 00:03:41,525 --> 00:03:44,070 Well, nil nisi bonum. 5 00:03:44,362 --> 00:03:46,280 But did he really deserve... 6 00:03:46,489 --> 00:03:48,783 ...a place in here? 7 00:04:03,673 --> 00:04:06,592 lord Allenby, could you give a few words about Lawrence? 8 00:04:06,842 --> 00:04:08,844 What, more words? 9 00:04:10,596 --> 00:04:12,515 The revolt in the desert... 10 00:04:12,723 --> 00:04:16,394 ...played a decisive part in the Middle Eastern campaign. 11 00:04:16,686 --> 00:04:19,397 Yes, sir, but about Colonel Lawrence himself. 12 00:04:20,189 --> 00:04:24,026 No, no. I didn't know him well, you know. 13 00:04:27,071 --> 00:04:30,241 Mr. Bentley, you know as much about Lawrence as anybody. 14 00:04:30,449 --> 00:04:33,202 Yes, it was my privilege to know him. 15 00:04:33,452 --> 00:04:36,080 And to make him known to the world. 16 00:04:36,372 --> 00:04:40,710 He was a poet, a scholar and a mighty warrior. 17 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:42,044 Thank you. 18 00:04:42,211 --> 00:04:46,924 He was also the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum and Bailey. 19 00:04:47,341 --> 00:04:49,051 You, sir. Who are you? 20 00:04:49,343 --> 00:04:51,554 My name is Jackson Bentley. 21 00:04:52,054 --> 00:04:55,933 I overheard your last remark and take the gravest exception. 22 00:04:56,225 --> 00:04:58,436 -He was a great man. -Did you know him? 23 00:04:58,728 --> 00:05:00,730 No, I can't claim to have known him. 24 00:05:00,896 --> 00:05:03,399 I had the honor to shake his hand in Damascus. 25 00:05:03,649 --> 00:05:05,276 Knew him? I never knew him. 26 00:05:05,568 --> 00:05:08,946 He had some minor function on my staff in Cairo. 27 00:05:28,758 --> 00:05:30,301 Michael George Hartley... 28 00:05:30,593 --> 00:05:33,888 ...this is a nasty, dark little room. 29 00:05:34,096 --> 00:05:35,139 That's right. 30 00:05:35,431 --> 00:05:37,600 We are not happy in it. 31 00:05:37,808 --> 00:05:41,687 I am. It's better than a nasty, dark little trench. 32 00:05:41,938 --> 00:05:45,316 -Then you're a big noble fellow. -That's right. 33 00:05:46,776 --> 00:05:50,529 Here is William Potter with my newspaper. 34 00:05:50,947 --> 00:05:53,282 -Here you are, tosh. -Thanks. 35 00:05:55,409 --> 00:05:58,454 Would you care for one of Corporal Hartley's cigarettes? 36 00:05:59,997 --> 00:06:02,291 -Is it there? -Of course. 37 00:06:02,500 --> 00:06:04,126 Headlines. 38 00:06:04,627 --> 00:06:07,838 But I bet it isn't mentioned in the Times. 39 00:06:08,464 --> 00:06:12,843 "Bedouin tribes attack Turkish stronghold." 40 00:06:13,803 --> 00:06:17,473 I bet that no one in this headquarters even knows it happened. 41 00:06:17,723 --> 00:06:21,435 Or would care if it did. Allow me to ignite your cigarette. 42 00:06:23,980 --> 00:06:25,982 -Mr. Lawrence? -Yes. 43 00:06:26,190 --> 00:06:28,484 -Flimsy, sir. -Thank you. 44 00:06:35,491 --> 00:06:38,828 You'll do that once too often. It's only flesh and blood. 45 00:06:39,078 --> 00:06:41,831 Michael George Hartley, you're a philosopher. 46 00:06:42,039 --> 00:06:43,958 And you're balmy! 47 00:06:58,055 --> 00:07:01,017 -It damn well hurts! -Certainly, it hurts. 48 00:07:01,517 --> 00:07:03,102 What's the trick, then? 49 00:07:03,352 --> 00:07:07,398 The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts. 50 00:07:07,690 --> 00:07:10,610 By the way, if Captain Gibbon should inquire for me... 51 00:07:10,860 --> 00:07:14,196 ...tell him I've gone for a chat with the general. 52 00:07:15,906 --> 00:07:18,117 -He's balmy. -He's all right. 53 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:25,541 Lawrence. 54 00:07:26,375 --> 00:07:27,543 Yes? 55 00:07:27,793 --> 00:07:29,587 You're supposed to be.... 56 00:07:30,004 --> 00:07:32,381 Do you usually wear your cap in the mess? 57 00:07:33,257 --> 00:07:34,300 Always. 58 00:07:34,550 --> 00:07:36,719 You should be on duty. Where are you going? 59 00:07:37,011 --> 00:07:39,388 Mustn't talk shop, Freddie, not in the mess. 60 00:07:39,597 --> 00:07:41,557 I'm going for a powwow with the general. 61 00:07:41,766 --> 00:07:45,269 I'm not asking as your superior, but as the secretary of this mess. 62 00:07:45,561 --> 00:07:47,939 We don't want chaps in here who should be on duty. 63 00:07:48,230 --> 00:07:49,649 Where are you going? 64 00:07:52,568 --> 00:07:54,403 I must say, Lawrence! 65 00:07:54,612 --> 00:07:57,448 -Sorry. -You're a clown, Lawrence. 66 00:07:57,740 --> 00:08:01,077 Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers. 67 00:08:03,746 --> 00:08:04,747 Sorry. 68 00:08:05,581 --> 00:08:07,583 It's an intrigue, Dryden. 69 00:08:07,750 --> 00:08:11,045 I do not propose to let an overweening, crass lieutenant... 70 00:08:11,254 --> 00:08:14,757 ...thumb his nose at his commander and get away with it. 71 00:08:15,049 --> 00:08:18,261 It doesn't sound as though he'd be any great loss, sir. 72 00:08:18,678 --> 00:08:21,931 Don't try that, Dryden. There's a principle involved. 73 00:08:22,139 --> 00:08:23,641 There is, indeed. 74 00:08:23,933 --> 00:08:25,810 He's of no use here in Cairo. 75 00:08:26,102 --> 00:08:29,146 He might be in Arabia. He knows his stuff, sir. 76 00:08:29,438 --> 00:08:30,940 Knows the books, you mean. 77 00:08:31,107 --> 00:08:34,277 I've already sent out Colonel Brighton, who's a soldier. 78 00:08:34,443 --> 00:08:37,280 If Brighton thinks we should send some arms, we will. 79 00:08:39,490 --> 00:08:41,117 Well, what more do you want? 80 00:08:41,325 --> 00:08:44,453 That there would be no question of lieutenant Lawrence... 81 00:08:44,662 --> 00:08:46,622 ...giving military advice. 82 00:08:46,831 --> 00:08:48,791 By God, I should hope not. 83 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,546 It's just that the Arab Bureau would like its own man on the spot to.... 84 00:08:53,713 --> 00:08:54,797 To what? 85 00:08:55,089 --> 00:08:57,508 To make our own appraisal of the situation. 86 00:08:57,883 --> 00:09:01,804 I'll tell you, it's my considered opinion and that of my staff... 87 00:09:02,096 --> 00:09:04,849 ...that time spent on the Bedouin will be time wasted. 88 00:09:05,141 --> 00:09:07,476 They're a nation of sheep-stealers. 89 00:09:07,685 --> 00:09:10,605 They did attack Medina. 90 00:09:10,813 --> 00:09:13,149 And the Turks made mincemeat of them. 91 00:09:13,399 --> 00:09:14,734 We don't know that. 92 00:09:15,151 --> 00:09:19,488 We know that they didn't take it. A storm in a teacup, a sideshow. 93 00:09:20,156 --> 00:09:24,160 In my opinion, this whole theater of operations is a sideshow. 94 00:09:24,619 --> 00:09:27,747 The real war's being fought against Germans, not Turks. 95 00:09:27,997 --> 00:09:30,833 Not here, but on the Western front in the trenches. 96 00:09:31,042 --> 00:09:33,502 Your Bedouin Army, or whatever it calls itself... 97 00:09:33,669 --> 00:09:36,339 ...would be a sideshow of a sideshow. 98 00:09:36,547 --> 00:09:39,175 Big things have small beginnings, sir. 99 00:09:40,551 --> 00:09:43,638 Does the Arab Bureau want a big thing in Arabia? 100 00:09:43,846 --> 00:09:48,351 Does the bureau think they'll sit down under us when this war is over? 101 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:53,522 The bureau thinks the job of the moment, sir, is to win the war. 102 00:09:54,148 --> 00:09:56,400 Don't tell me my duty, Mr. Dryden. 103 00:09:57,276 --> 00:09:59,362 -Lawrence, sir. -Send him in. 104 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:02,448 Good morning, sir. 105 00:10:02,698 --> 00:10:04,158 Salute. 106 00:10:06,285 --> 00:10:09,705 If you're insubordinate, I shall put you under arrest. 107 00:10:09,914 --> 00:10:11,707 -It's my manner. -Your what? 108 00:10:11,916 --> 00:10:14,794 My manner. It looks insubordinate, but it isn't. 109 00:10:15,211 --> 00:10:19,048 I can't make out whether you're bad-mannered or just half-witted. 110 00:10:19,382 --> 00:10:22,260 -I have the same problem, sir. -Shut up. 111 00:10:22,551 --> 00:10:25,888 The Arab Bureau thinks you would be of use to them in Arabia. 112 00:10:26,222 --> 00:10:27,807 Why, I can't imagine. 113 00:10:28,057 --> 00:10:30,476 You can't perform your present duties properly. 114 00:10:31,310 --> 00:10:35,606 "I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city." 115 00:10:35,815 --> 00:10:38,067 -What? -Themistocles, sir. 116 00:10:38,276 --> 00:10:41,904 -A Greek philosopher. -I know you've been well-educated. 117 00:10:42,113 --> 00:10:44,407 It says so in your dossier. 118 00:10:46,742 --> 00:10:49,745 You're the kind of creature I can't stand, Lawrence. 119 00:10:51,956 --> 00:10:54,208 But I suppose I could be wrong. 120 00:10:54,792 --> 00:10:57,587 All right, Dryden. You can have him for six weeks. 121 00:10:57,753 --> 00:11:01,257 Who knows? It might even make a man of him. Come in! 122 00:11:03,259 --> 00:11:04,594 Yes, what is it? 123 00:11:04,844 --> 00:11:07,597 The convoy will be in Port Said tomorrow night. 124 00:11:07,805 --> 00:11:09,807 -Is that certain? -Yes, sir. 125 00:11:10,933 --> 00:11:13,102 There doesn't seem to be any artillery. 126 00:11:13,311 --> 00:11:16,105 But there must be artillery! 127 00:11:18,858 --> 00:11:22,361 Sir, this is something of an expedition. 128 00:11:22,612 --> 00:11:26,782 He has to get to Yenbo, find a guide, find the Arabs and then get back. 129 00:11:27,033 --> 00:11:29,619 He can't do that in six weeks. 130 00:11:30,286 --> 00:11:32,955 -Two months, then. -Three. 131 00:11:33,456 --> 00:11:37,543 All right, three. Now, will you let me do some work, Mr. Dryden? 132 00:11:37,793 --> 00:11:39,462 Thank you, sir. 133 00:11:41,964 --> 00:11:45,301 I'd like to say, sir, that I am grateful for this. 134 00:11:45,509 --> 00:11:47,386 Shut up and get out. 135 00:11:53,476 --> 00:11:54,852 Sir? 136 00:12:00,483 --> 00:12:03,778 How can I fight a bloody war without bloody artillery? 137 00:12:04,779 --> 00:12:08,658 -How did you do it? -Might better ask why I bothered to. 138 00:12:08,908 --> 00:12:12,411 -Because I'm the man for the job. -I just wonder about that. 139 00:12:12,662 --> 00:12:15,539 Of course I am. What is the job, by the way? 140 00:12:15,831 --> 00:12:17,500 Find Prince Feisal. 141 00:12:17,792 --> 00:12:19,585 Good. And when I've found him? 142 00:12:21,545 --> 00:12:23,839 Find out what kind of a man he is. 143 00:12:24,090 --> 00:12:27,843 Find out what his intentions are. Not his immediate intentions. 144 00:12:28,010 --> 00:12:30,554 That is Colonel Brighton's business, not yours. 145 00:12:30,846 --> 00:12:35,101 I mean, his intentions in Arabia altogether. 146 00:12:38,354 --> 00:12:39,897 That's new. 147 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:42,858 Where are they now? 148 00:12:43,025 --> 00:12:45,945 Anywhere within 300 miles of Medina. 149 00:12:46,195 --> 00:12:47,697 They're Hashemite Bedouins. 150 00:12:47,905 --> 00:12:51,575 They can cross 60 miles of desert in a day. 151 00:12:51,867 --> 00:12:53,828 Thanks. This is going to be fun. 152 00:12:54,537 --> 00:12:58,249 Lawrence, only two kinds of creature get fun in the desert: 153 00:12:58,541 --> 00:13:02,044 Bedouins and gods, and you're neither. Take it from me. 154 00:13:02,253 --> 00:13:05,548 For ordinary men, it's a burning fiery furnace. 155 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:09,552 No, Dryden. It's going to be fun. 156 00:13:13,347 --> 00:13:16,642 It is recognized that you have a funny sense of fun. 157 00:14:32,635 --> 00:14:34,428 Here you may drink. 158 00:14:38,140 --> 00:14:39,433 One cup. 159 00:14:47,191 --> 00:14:48,818 You do not drink? 160 00:14:49,443 --> 00:14:50,486 No. 161 00:14:51,946 --> 00:14:53,572 I'll drink when you do. 162 00:14:54,490 --> 00:14:55,574 I am Bedu. 163 00:16:55,987 --> 00:17:00,199 Truly, now, you are a British officer? 164 00:17:00,449 --> 00:17:01,826 Yes. 165 00:17:02,576 --> 00:17:04,120 From Cairo? 166 00:17:04,578 --> 00:17:05,997 Yes. 167 00:17:06,622 --> 00:17:09,792 -You did not ride from Cairo? -No. 168 00:17:10,084 --> 00:17:13,963 Thank heaven. It's 900 miles. I came by boat. 169 00:17:14,463 --> 00:17:16,007 And before? 170 00:17:16,632 --> 00:17:19,135 From Britain? 171 00:17:19,468 --> 00:17:20,803 Yes. 172 00:17:22,138 --> 00:17:23,514 Truly? 173 00:17:24,015 --> 00:17:25,474 From Oxfordshire. 174 00:17:27,476 --> 00:17:28,978 Is that a desert country? 175 00:17:29,979 --> 00:17:34,317 No. A fat country. Fat people. 176 00:17:35,901 --> 00:17:37,111 You are not fat? 177 00:17:37,820 --> 00:17:38,988 No. 178 00:17:40,489 --> 00:17:42,116 I'm different. 179 00:18:10,144 --> 00:18:11,520 Here... 180 00:18:12,271 --> 00:18:13,773 ...take it. 181 00:18:14,649 --> 00:18:18,069 First I take you to lord Feisal, then you give it to me. 182 00:18:18,361 --> 00:18:19,862 Take it now. 183 00:18:38,422 --> 00:18:40,049 Bedu food. 184 00:18:55,398 --> 00:18:56,732 Good. 185 00:18:56,983 --> 00:18:58,234 More? 186 00:19:47,116 --> 00:19:49,285 -Bedu. -Where? 187 00:20:10,264 --> 00:20:12,850 From here to lord Feisal's camp is Harith country. 188 00:20:13,142 --> 00:20:14,310 Yes, I know. 189 00:20:14,518 --> 00:20:16,479 -I am not Harith. -No. 190 00:20:16,687 --> 00:20:19,315 Hazimi, of the Beni Salem. 191 00:20:55,601 --> 00:20:59,021 Put the right foot in tight. lock it with your left foot. 192 00:20:59,230 --> 00:21:00,856 When you are ready to go... 193 00:21:01,065 --> 00:21:04,193 ...hit her on the shoulder and say, "Hut-hut-hut." 194 00:21:21,836 --> 00:21:25,464 Today will be difficult, but tomorrow, good riding. 195 00:21:42,565 --> 00:21:46,068 I think we reach Masturah Well tomorrow. Yes. 196 00:21:46,235 --> 00:21:49,905 And from Masturah Well to lord Feisal's camp, one day more. 197 00:21:50,114 --> 00:21:51,282 Now! 198 00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:52,635 Good? 199 00:22:52,843 --> 00:22:54,679 It's all right. 200 00:22:55,805 --> 00:22:58,015 This is a Harith well. 201 00:22:58,474 --> 00:23:00,977 The Harith are a dirty people. 202 00:24:22,558 --> 00:24:23,935 Turks? 203 00:24:50,419 --> 00:24:51,587 Bedu. 204 00:25:38,092 --> 00:25:39,844 Who is he? 205 00:26:33,522 --> 00:26:35,149 He is dead. 206 00:26:35,524 --> 00:26:37,026 Yes. 207 00:26:38,277 --> 00:26:39,362 Why? 208 00:26:42,239 --> 00:26:43,699 This is my well. 209 00:26:45,284 --> 00:26:46,911 I have drunk from it. 210 00:26:47,870 --> 00:26:49,664 You are welcome. 211 00:26:51,374 --> 00:26:52,708 He was my friend. 212 00:26:52,917 --> 00:26:55,753 -That? -Yes, that. 213 00:27:05,888 --> 00:27:09,100 -This pistol yours? -No, his. 214 00:27:25,783 --> 00:27:27,076 His? 215 00:27:27,702 --> 00:27:28,911 Mine. 216 00:27:29,578 --> 00:27:31,414 Then I will use it. 217 00:27:39,297 --> 00:27:41,591 Your friend... 218 00:27:43,593 --> 00:27:45,803 ...was a Hazimi of the Beni Salem. 219 00:27:46,095 --> 00:27:47,471 I know. 220 00:27:55,021 --> 00:27:56,314 I am Ali ibn el Kharish. 221 00:27:58,608 --> 00:27:59,942 I have heard of you. 222 00:28:01,652 --> 00:28:03,321 So... 223 00:28:05,656 --> 00:28:07,533 ...what was a Hazimi doing here? 224 00:28:07,783 --> 00:28:11,287 He was taking me to help Prince Feisal. 225 00:28:11,787 --> 00:28:15,249 -You've been sent from Cairo. -Yes. 226 00:28:15,750 --> 00:28:19,170 I have been in Cairo for my schooling. 227 00:28:20,129 --> 00:28:22,506 I can both read and write. 228 00:28:26,302 --> 00:28:30,264 My lord Feisal already has an Englishman. 229 00:28:30,681 --> 00:28:32,308 What is your name? 230 00:28:33,267 --> 00:28:35,853 My name is for my friends. 231 00:28:41,317 --> 00:28:43,402 None of my friends is a murderer. 232 00:28:45,321 --> 00:28:47,365 You are angry, English. 233 00:28:56,165 --> 00:28:58,000 He was nothing. 234 00:28:58,292 --> 00:29:00,044 The well is everything. 235 00:29:01,087 --> 00:29:04,006 The Hazimi may not drink at our wells. 236 00:29:04,298 --> 00:29:05,883 He knew that. 237 00:29:08,219 --> 00:29:09,428 Salaam. 238 00:29:11,013 --> 00:29:12,682 Sherif Ali. 239 00:29:13,015 --> 00:29:16,102 So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe... 240 00:29:16,352 --> 00:29:18,854 ...so long will they be a little people... 241 00:29:19,105 --> 00:29:20,523 ...a silly people. 242 00:29:21,023 --> 00:29:25,194 Greedy, barbarous and cruel, as you are. 243 00:29:39,333 --> 00:29:40,376 Come. 244 00:29:41,419 --> 00:29:43,045 I will take you to Feisal. 245 00:29:43,212 --> 00:29:45,339 I do not want your company, sherif. 246 00:29:45,548 --> 00:29:48,884 Wadi Safra is another day from here. 247 00:29:49,218 --> 00:29:52,221 You will not find it, and you will die. 248 00:29:52,972 --> 00:29:56,392 I will find it with this. 249 00:30:04,984 --> 00:30:06,986 Good army compass. 250 00:30:07,570 --> 00:30:09,488 How if I take it? 251 00:30:09,905 --> 00:30:11,240 Then you would be a thief. 252 00:30:12,408 --> 00:30:13,743 Have you no fear, English? 253 00:30:14,660 --> 00:30:17,246 My fear is my concern. 254 00:30:17,747 --> 00:30:19,081 Truly. 255 00:30:23,085 --> 00:30:25,129 God be with you, English. 256 00:32:04,395 --> 00:32:06,188 Hey, you! 257 00:32:24,582 --> 00:32:27,710 -I've been waiting for you. -Did you know I was coming? 258 00:32:28,002 --> 00:32:30,212 I knew someone was coming. Feisal told me. 259 00:32:30,504 --> 00:32:31,881 How did he know? 260 00:32:32,089 --> 00:32:35,009 Not much happens within 50 miles of Feisal that he doesn't know. 261 00:32:35,217 --> 00:32:37,261 I'll give him that. No escort? 262 00:32:37,511 --> 00:32:40,014 My guide was killed at the Masturah Well. 263 00:32:40,222 --> 00:32:43,100 -Turks? -No, an Arab. 264 00:32:43,392 --> 00:32:45,811 Bloody savages. 265 00:32:47,563 --> 00:32:50,650 -This is Wadi Safra, isn't it? -Yes, they're over there. 266 00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:53,444 Just a minute. What's your name and who sent you? 267 00:32:53,736 --> 00:32:57,740 Lawrence. I've been seconded to the Arab Bureau. 268 00:33:00,409 --> 00:33:02,745 What are you to do for the Arab Bureau? 269 00:33:02,912 --> 00:33:07,917 Well, it's rather vague, sir. I'm to appreciate the situation. 270 00:33:08,626 --> 00:33:12,546 Well, that won't be difficult. The situation's bloody awful. 271 00:33:12,755 --> 00:33:15,925 Their morale, if they ever had any, which I doubt... 272 00:33:16,133 --> 00:33:20,137 ...the Turks knocked out of them in front of Medina, with howitzers. 273 00:33:20,429 --> 00:33:22,765 They're fading away by dozens every night. 274 00:33:23,057 --> 00:33:24,642 What I want to say is this: 275 00:33:24,934 --> 00:33:27,561 Wherever you are and whoever you are with... 276 00:33:27,770 --> 00:33:29,605 ...you're a British officer. Here's an order. 277 00:33:29,814 --> 00:33:33,609 When we get into that camp, you're to keep your mouth shut. 278 00:33:33,776 --> 00:33:37,780 -Do you understand what I'm saying? -I understand what you're saying. 279 00:33:37,947 --> 00:33:40,866 You'll make your appreciation and get back to-- 280 00:33:43,452 --> 00:33:45,288 Oh, my God. 281 00:33:45,955 --> 00:33:47,790 Not again. 282 00:34:16,652 --> 00:34:19,822 I've told him! God knows I've told him. 283 00:34:20,031 --> 00:34:23,200 "Move South," I've said. "You're still in range." 284 00:34:25,161 --> 00:34:28,664 They simply will not understand what modern weapons do! 285 00:34:55,191 --> 00:34:58,569 Stand and fight. Stand and fight. 286 00:35:03,699 --> 00:35:05,159 Fire back at them. 287 00:36:17,148 --> 00:36:20,276 -Who are you? -lieutenant Lawrence, sir. 288 00:36:20,526 --> 00:36:22,236 Seconded to the Arab Bureau. 289 00:36:22,445 --> 00:36:25,740 This is a bloody mess, sir. We'll have to move south. 290 00:36:25,948 --> 00:36:28,326 Yes, colonel, 50 miles south. 291 00:36:28,618 --> 00:36:31,454 You were right and I was wrong. 292 00:36:31,746 --> 00:36:33,789 We must take some thought for the wounded. 293 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,293 -We can take care of them at Yenbo. -If they can get to Yenbo. 294 00:36:37,501 --> 00:36:39,045 They can hardly come with us. 295 00:36:39,295 --> 00:36:43,633 No. They must try to reach Yenbo. lieutenant...? 296 00:36:44,467 --> 00:36:45,676 Lawrence. 297 00:36:45,968 --> 00:36:48,346 You understand, lieutenant Lawrence... 298 00:36:48,554 --> 00:36:53,643 ...my people are unused to explosives and machines. 299 00:36:54,185 --> 00:36:58,147 First the guns, and now this. 300 00:37:52,743 --> 00:37:54,036 Cigarette? 301 00:37:54,245 --> 00:37:55,705 I'm sorry. 302 00:38:06,424 --> 00:38:08,384 Cigarette, Your Excellency? 303 00:38:09,260 --> 00:38:10,595 Umph off. 304 00:38:11,429 --> 00:38:14,265 Please, Your Excellency. Just one for two? 305 00:38:31,949 --> 00:38:33,117 Hold it, Jenkins! 306 00:38:37,455 --> 00:38:38,914 Jenkins! 307 00:38:48,299 --> 00:38:49,926 Lawrence? 308 00:38:52,303 --> 00:38:53,679 You have no servant. 309 00:38:53,930 --> 00:38:56,432 -I don't need a servant. -No? 310 00:38:56,682 --> 00:39:00,436 We can do everything. light fires, cook food, wash clothes. 311 00:39:00,645 --> 00:39:02,647 -Yes, everything. -I don't doubt it. 312 00:39:02,939 --> 00:39:05,983 -It will be very nice for you. -I can't afford it. 313 00:39:29,131 --> 00:39:33,511 Recite, then, as much of the Koran as may be easy to you. 314 00:39:33,803 --> 00:39:37,473 God knoweth that there be some among you sick... 315 00:39:38,349 --> 00:39:43,729 ...while others travel through the Earth in quest for the bounties of God. 316 00:39:45,064 --> 00:39:49,318 Others do battle in his cause. 317 00:39:49,527 --> 00:39:53,864 Recite, therefore, as much as may be easy. 318 00:39:54,490 --> 00:39:57,326 And observe the prayers. 319 00:39:58,452 --> 00:40:03,958 This will be best and richest in the recompense. 320 00:40:05,084 --> 00:40:09,005 Seek ye the forgiveness of God. 321 00:40:09,755 --> 00:40:14,844 Verily, God is forgiving, merciful-- 322 00:40:15,052 --> 00:40:16,512 Greetings, Ali. 323 00:40:16,679 --> 00:40:18,514 -My lord. -Sherif Ali. 324 00:40:18,723 --> 00:40:22,977 lieutenant Lawrence, you have met Sherif Ali, I think. 325 00:40:23,853 --> 00:40:25,688 Yes, my lord. 326 00:40:28,190 --> 00:40:30,484 And now, Selim, "The Brightness." 327 00:40:30,693 --> 00:40:33,029 "By the noonday brightness... 328 00:40:33,237 --> 00:40:35,364 ...and by the night when it darkeneth... 329 00:40:35,615 --> 00:40:38,034 ...thy lord hath not forsaken thee... 330 00:40:38,284 --> 00:40:40,703 ...neither hath He been displeased. 331 00:40:40,995 --> 00:40:45,249 And surely the future shall be better for thee than the past." 332 00:40:45,541 --> 00:40:49,045 "And in the end shall your lord be bounteous to thee... 333 00:40:49,211 --> 00:40:51,547 ...and thou be satisfied." 334 00:40:53,507 --> 00:40:54,884 So? 335 00:40:56,802 --> 00:40:58,054 Yes, colonel. 336 00:40:58,429 --> 00:41:02,141 -I want a decision, sir. -You want me to fall back on Yenbo. 337 00:41:02,391 --> 00:41:05,061 Well, you're not doing much good here, sir. 338 00:41:05,269 --> 00:41:09,231 I'm sorry to rub it in, sir, but we can't supply you here. 339 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,400 You could supply us through Aqaba! 340 00:41:11,817 --> 00:41:13,402 Aqaba! 341 00:41:14,236 --> 00:41:16,906 If you can get ahold of Aqaba, we can supply you. 342 00:41:17,073 --> 00:41:19,075 -But you can't! -You could. 343 00:41:19,575 --> 00:41:22,161 You mean, the navy? 344 00:41:23,079 --> 00:41:26,415 The Turks have 12-inch guns at Aqaba, sir. 345 00:41:26,624 --> 00:41:28,626 Can you imagine what that means? 346 00:41:28,918 --> 00:41:30,586 Yes, I can imagine. 347 00:41:30,795 --> 00:41:35,049 Put that out of your mind, sir. The navy's got other things to do. 348 00:41:35,258 --> 00:41:37,760 Oh, yes. Protecting the Suez Canal. 349 00:41:38,552 --> 00:41:42,181 The one essential sector of this front is and must be the canal. 350 00:41:42,431 --> 00:41:44,267 You can see that, sir, surely. 351 00:41:44,433 --> 00:41:47,436 I see that the canal is an essential British interest. 352 00:41:47,603 --> 00:41:49,647 It is of little consequence to us. 353 00:41:50,147 --> 00:41:52,191 I must ask you not to speak like that. 354 00:41:52,441 --> 00:41:55,111 British and Arab interests are one and the same. 355 00:41:56,445 --> 00:41:58,114 Possibly. 356 00:41:59,782 --> 00:42:02,076 Upon my word, sir, you're ungrateful. 357 00:42:02,285 --> 00:42:04,954 Fall back on Yenbo and we will give you equipment. 358 00:42:05,121 --> 00:42:07,331 Give you arms, advice, training, everything. 359 00:42:07,623 --> 00:42:10,459 -Guns? -A modern rifle for every man. 360 00:42:10,710 --> 00:42:13,629 No. Guns. Artillery. 361 00:42:13,838 --> 00:42:17,133 Guns like the Turkish guns at Medina. 362 00:42:17,300 --> 00:42:20,386 Yes, give us guns and keep the training. 363 00:42:20,636 --> 00:42:24,307 Your men need training far more than guns, sir. 364 00:42:24,599 --> 00:42:26,225 English will teach Bedu to fight? 365 00:42:26,475 --> 00:42:30,605 We will teach them, Sherif Ali, to fight a modern mechanized army. 366 00:42:32,231 --> 00:42:36,360 Yes, lieutenant? What do you think about Yenbo? 367 00:42:40,197 --> 00:42:43,034 I think it is far from Damascus. 368 00:42:43,326 --> 00:42:46,662 We'll have you in Damascus, sir. Never fear. 369 00:42:46,912 --> 00:42:49,874 Have you been in Damascus, Mr. Lawrence? 370 00:42:50,499 --> 00:42:51,876 Yes, my lord. 371 00:42:52,919 --> 00:42:54,545 It is beautiful, is it not? 372 00:42:54,837 --> 00:42:56,505 -Very. -That will do, Lawrence. 373 00:42:56,756 --> 00:43:00,843 Dreaming won't get you to Damascus, but discipline will. 374 00:43:01,135 --> 00:43:06,182 look, Great Britain is a small country, much smaller than yours. 375 00:43:06,390 --> 00:43:08,684 Small population compared with some. 376 00:43:08,893 --> 00:43:12,063 It's small, but it's great. And why? 377 00:43:12,355 --> 00:43:15,191 -Because it has guns. -Because it has discipline. 378 00:43:15,399 --> 00:43:17,693 Because it has a navy, because of this... 379 00:43:17,860 --> 00:43:19,570 ...the English go where they please... 380 00:43:19,862 --> 00:43:22,406 ...and strike where they please. This makes them great. 381 00:43:22,698 --> 00:43:24,784 -Right. -Mr. Lawrence, that will do! 382 00:43:25,034 --> 00:43:27,286 Lawrence is not your military adviser. 383 00:43:27,536 --> 00:43:29,664 But I would like to hear his opinion. 384 00:43:30,081 --> 00:43:32,291 Damn it! Who do you take your orders from? 385 00:43:32,541 --> 00:43:35,962 From lord Feisal, in Feisal's tent. 386 00:43:36,212 --> 00:43:41,467 Old fool! Why turn from him to him? They are master and man. 387 00:43:42,593 --> 00:43:46,264 My lord, I think.... 388 00:43:47,223 --> 00:43:49,392 I think your book is right. 389 00:43:49,725 --> 00:43:54,105 The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped. 390 00:43:54,397 --> 00:43:56,399 On this ocean, the Bedu go where they please... 391 00:43:56,565 --> 00:43:58,067 ...and strike where they please. 392 00:43:58,317 --> 00:44:00,569 This is the way the Bedu has always fought. 393 00:44:00,820 --> 00:44:03,739 You're famed through the world for fighting this way. 394 00:44:03,990 --> 00:44:06,117 And this is the way you should fight now. 395 00:44:06,409 --> 00:44:07,952 I don't know. 396 00:44:08,244 --> 00:44:10,454 I'm sorry, sir, but you're wrong. 397 00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:15,418 Fall back on Yenbo, the Arab Rising becomes one unit in the British army. 398 00:44:15,626 --> 00:44:17,795 -What is this to you? -You're a traitor. 399 00:44:18,087 --> 00:44:20,089 No, colonel. 400 00:44:20,339 --> 00:44:23,593 He is a young man, and young men are passionate. 401 00:44:23,843 --> 00:44:26,929 They must say their say. 402 00:44:28,097 --> 00:44:33,102 But wiser people must decide. I know you are right. 403 00:44:33,269 --> 00:44:35,813 Very well. When shall we move? The sooner the better. 404 00:44:36,105 --> 00:44:38,608 You'll lose another 50 men tonight. 405 00:44:40,651 --> 00:44:42,612 You tread heavily... 406 00:44:43,654 --> 00:44:46,324 ...but you speak the truth. 407 00:44:47,950 --> 00:44:51,454 I will give you my answer tomorrow. And now... 408 00:44:51,829 --> 00:44:53,623 ...it is late. 409 00:45:09,347 --> 00:45:11,849 Colonel Brighton means to put my men... 410 00:45:12,016 --> 00:45:14,894 ...under European officers, does he not? 411 00:45:15,144 --> 00:45:17,021 In effect, my lord, yes. 412 00:45:17,313 --> 00:45:19,315 And I must do it... 413 00:45:19,899 --> 00:45:23,653 ...because the Turks have European guns. 414 00:45:23,903 --> 00:45:26,572 But I fear to do it... 415 00:45:27,490 --> 00:45:29,700 ...upon my soul I do. 416 00:45:31,661 --> 00:45:35,831 The English have a great hunger for desolate places. 417 00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,210 I fear they hunger for Arabia. 418 00:45:39,502 --> 00:45:41,379 Then you must deny it to them. 419 00:45:41,671 --> 00:45:45,216 You are an Englishman. Are you not loyal to England? 420 00:45:45,841 --> 00:45:48,803 To England and to other things. 421 00:45:49,053 --> 00:45:51,681 To England and Arabia both? 422 00:45:51,889 --> 00:45:53,683 And is that possible? 423 00:46:00,439 --> 00:46:04,694 I think you are another of these desert-loving English. 424 00:46:04,902 --> 00:46:07,029 Doughty, Stanhope... 425 00:46:07,613 --> 00:46:09,949 ...Gordon of Khartoum. 426 00:46:10,199 --> 00:46:12,451 No Arab loves the desert. 427 00:46:12,702 --> 00:46:17,707 We love water and green trees. There is nothing in the desert. 428 00:46:18,749 --> 00:46:21,210 And no man needs nothing. 429 00:46:24,338 --> 00:46:27,925 Or is it that you think we are something you can play with... 430 00:46:28,217 --> 00:46:31,762 ...because we are a little people, a silly people... 431 00:46:32,054 --> 00:46:36,225 ...greedy, barbarous and cruel? 432 00:46:36,559 --> 00:46:39,854 Or do you know, lieutenant, in the Arab city of Cordoba... 433 00:46:40,062 --> 00:46:42,565 ...were two miles of lighting in the streets... 434 00:46:42,773 --> 00:46:44,483 ...when london was a village. 435 00:46:44,734 --> 00:46:47,570 Yes, you were great. 436 00:46:47,778 --> 00:46:49,905 Nine centuries ago. 437 00:46:50,156 --> 00:46:52,366 Time to be great again, my lord. 438 00:46:52,575 --> 00:46:55,870 Which is why my father made this war upon the Turks. 439 00:46:56,078 --> 00:46:59,874 My father, Mr. Lawrence, not the English. 440 00:47:01,083 --> 00:47:03,377 But my father is old... 441 00:47:04,378 --> 00:47:06,088 ...and I... 442 00:47:07,757 --> 00:47:11,469 ...I long for the vanished gardens of Cordoba. 443 00:47:13,304 --> 00:47:16,265 However, before the gardens must come the fighting. 444 00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:21,479 To be great again, it seems that we need the English... 445 00:47:21,771 --> 00:47:22,772 ...or.... 446 00:47:23,022 --> 00:47:24,440 Or? 447 00:47:24,941 --> 00:47:28,611 What no man can provide, Mr. Lawrence. 448 00:47:28,819 --> 00:47:31,280 We need a miracle. 449 00:50:36,591 --> 00:50:37,633 Aqaba. 450 00:50:41,137 --> 00:50:42,513 Aqaba. 451 00:50:43,347 --> 00:50:44,974 From the land. 452 00:50:45,975 --> 00:50:47,727 You are mad. 453 00:50:48,144 --> 00:50:52,523 To come to Aqaba by land we should have to cross the Nefud Desert. 454 00:50:52,732 --> 00:50:53,983 That's right. 455 00:50:54,317 --> 00:50:56,485 The Nefud cannot be crossed. 456 00:50:56,694 --> 00:50:58,613 I'll cross it if you will. 457 00:50:58,821 --> 00:51:02,992 You? It takes more than a compass, Englishman. 458 00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,995 The Nefud is the worst place God created. 459 00:51:06,245 --> 00:51:10,249 I can't answer for the place. Only for myself. 460 00:51:10,666 --> 00:51:12,168 Fifty men? 461 00:51:12,418 --> 00:51:15,004 Fifty? Against Aqaba? 462 00:51:15,212 --> 00:51:17,632 If 50 men came out of the Nefud... 463 00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,885 ...they would be 50 men other men might join. 464 00:51:21,677 --> 00:51:24,013 The Howeitat are there, I hear. 465 00:51:24,347 --> 00:51:27,350 The Howeitat are brigands. They'll sell themselves to anyone. 466 00:51:27,642 --> 00:51:29,852 -Good fighters, though. -Good-- 467 00:51:30,853 --> 00:51:34,231 Yes. There are guns at Aqaba. 468 00:51:34,523 --> 00:51:38,653 They face the sea, Sherif Ali, and cannot be turned around. 469 00:51:38,861 --> 00:51:42,573 From the landward side, there are no guns at Aqaba. 470 00:51:42,865 --> 00:51:47,870 With good reason. It cannot be approached from the landward side. 471 00:51:48,079 --> 00:51:50,706 Certainly the Turks don't dream of it. 472 00:51:54,168 --> 00:51:56,170 Aqaba's over there. 473 00:51:58,714 --> 00:52:00,925 It's only a matter of going. 474 00:52:02,051 --> 00:52:04,387 You are mad. 475 00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:14,063 And where are you going, lieutenant? 476 00:52:15,398 --> 00:52:17,441 With 50 of my men. 477 00:52:19,068 --> 00:52:20,278 To work your miracle. 478 00:52:20,611 --> 00:52:24,907 Blasphemy is a bad beginning for such a journey. 479 00:52:25,616 --> 00:52:28,244 -Who told you? -Ali did. 480 00:52:28,411 --> 00:52:30,121 Why not you? 481 00:52:31,747 --> 00:52:34,750 You are falling back from Yenbo, sir? 482 00:52:35,001 --> 00:52:37,253 Yes, I must. 483 00:52:37,503 --> 00:52:40,590 But I will spare these to you. 484 00:52:42,466 --> 00:52:45,595 Did Ali break confidence to tell me? 485 00:52:46,220 --> 00:52:50,141 Sherif Ali owes you his allegiance, my lord. 486 00:52:51,100 --> 00:52:53,603 Yet you did not tell Colonel Brighton. 487 00:52:53,811 --> 00:52:54,854 No. 488 00:53:06,741 --> 00:53:08,743 Since you do know... 489 00:53:09,243 --> 00:53:12,788 ...we can claim to arrive in the name of Feisal of Mecca. 490 00:53:13,164 --> 00:53:16,459 Yes, lieutenant Lawrence, you may claim it. 491 00:53:17,293 --> 00:53:20,379 But in whose name do you ride? 492 00:55:48,945 --> 00:55:51,614 Sherif, I caught them. They have tracked us. 493 00:55:51,906 --> 00:55:54,116 They were here. I caught them. 494 00:55:54,283 --> 00:55:57,203 Why are you here? Boy! 495 00:55:57,453 --> 00:55:59,330 To serve lord Lawrence, sherif. 496 00:55:59,622 --> 00:56:02,208 This is true, Lawrence. They do wish it. 497 00:56:02,458 --> 00:56:04,293 You have been tracking us. 498 00:56:04,961 --> 00:56:07,213 -You were told to stay. -No, sherif. 499 00:56:07,463 --> 00:56:09,507 Our camel strayed. We followed her. 500 00:56:09,799 --> 00:56:12,677 She led us here to be lord Lawrence's servants. 501 00:56:12,969 --> 00:56:15,554 -It is the will of Allah. -Blasphemy. 502 00:56:15,805 --> 00:56:17,056 Don't do that. 503 00:56:17,515 --> 00:56:22,228 No, Lawrence, these are not servants. These are outcasts, parent-less. 504 00:56:22,853 --> 00:56:25,564 Be warned. They are not suitable. 505 00:56:25,815 --> 00:56:29,568 They sound very suitable. You can ride with the baggage. 506 00:56:31,195 --> 00:56:34,657 These are not servants. These are worshippers. 507 00:56:38,661 --> 00:56:41,497 One shilling, every week? 508 00:56:41,706 --> 00:56:43,332 That is fair. 509 00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:45,334 -Each? -No. 510 00:56:45,543 --> 00:56:47,169 -That is too much. -All right. 511 00:56:55,761 --> 00:56:59,974 They will be lucky for you. Allah favors the compassionate. 512 00:57:13,863 --> 00:57:15,615 There is the railway. 513 00:57:16,490 --> 00:57:19,410 And that is the desert. 514 00:57:20,870 --> 00:57:24,582 From here until the other side, no water but what we carry. 515 00:57:24,790 --> 00:57:28,085 For the camels, no water at all. 516 00:57:28,711 --> 00:57:30,880 If the camels die... 517 00:57:32,214 --> 00:57:33,549 ...we die. 518 00:57:34,508 --> 00:57:37,303 And in 20 days they will start to die. 519 00:57:42,808 --> 00:57:46,062 There's no time to waste, then, is there? 520 01:00:18,172 --> 01:00:19,882 I was thinking. 521 01:00:20,091 --> 01:00:21,801 You were drifting. 522 01:00:23,761 --> 01:00:27,431 Yes. It will not happen again. 523 01:00:27,723 --> 01:00:31,394 Be warned, you were drifting. 524 01:00:32,061 --> 01:00:34,105 It will not happen again. 525 01:01:36,250 --> 01:01:38,127 That water is wasted. 526 01:01:43,549 --> 01:01:45,843 From now on, we must travel by night... 527 01:01:46,135 --> 01:01:49,013 ...and rest while it is too hot to travel. 528 01:01:49,305 --> 01:01:51,682 A few hours each day. 529 01:01:53,517 --> 01:01:55,478 Why don't we start now? 530 01:01:55,645 --> 01:01:58,356 No. We will rest now. 531 01:02:00,191 --> 01:02:01,317 Three hours. 532 01:02:01,567 --> 01:02:02,985 Fine. 533 01:02:03,569 --> 01:02:05,029 I'll wake you. 534 01:04:23,542 --> 01:04:25,127 Do we rest here? 535 01:04:25,336 --> 01:04:28,506 There is no rest now short of water. 536 01:04:28,798 --> 01:04:30,800 The other side of that. 537 01:04:31,968 --> 01:04:34,136 And how much of that is there? 538 01:04:34,470 --> 01:04:36,013 I'm not sure. 539 01:04:37,139 --> 01:04:41,477 But however much, it must be crossed before tomorrow's sun gets up. 540 01:04:42,561 --> 01:04:44,814 This is the sun's anvil. 541 01:06:17,406 --> 01:06:18,658 Have we done it? 542 01:06:18,908 --> 01:06:22,036 No, but we're off the anvil. 543 01:06:22,912 --> 01:06:24,455 Thank God for that anyway. 544 01:06:24,664 --> 01:06:26,582 Yes, thank him. 545 01:06:26,832 --> 01:06:30,419 Lawrence, I do not think you know how you have tempted him. 546 01:06:30,670 --> 01:06:31,963 I know. 547 01:06:35,299 --> 01:06:36,801 We've done it. 548 01:06:37,093 --> 01:06:38,636 God willing. 549 01:06:40,763 --> 01:06:42,807 When do we reach the wells? 550 01:06:43,182 --> 01:06:46,352 God willing, midday. 551 01:06:46,852 --> 01:06:50,273 -Then we've done it. -Thank him, Lawrence. Thank him. 552 01:06:53,943 --> 01:06:55,569 Gasim's. 553 01:06:59,448 --> 01:07:01,158 What's happened to him? 554 01:07:01,951 --> 01:07:03,452 God knows. 555 01:07:05,121 --> 01:07:06,998 Why don't you stop? 556 01:07:07,456 --> 01:07:10,960 For what? He will be dead by midday. 557 01:07:16,299 --> 01:07:18,092 We must go back. 558 01:07:18,301 --> 01:07:21,178 What for, to die with Gasim? 559 01:07:22,471 --> 01:07:24,724 In one hour comes the sun. 560 01:07:26,225 --> 01:07:30,896 In God's name, understand! We cannot go back! 561 01:07:31,147 --> 01:07:32,481 I can. 562 01:07:33,316 --> 01:07:34,984 Take the boys. 563 01:07:40,823 --> 01:07:43,326 If you go back, you kill yourself, is all. 564 01:07:43,492 --> 01:07:45,828 Gasim you have killed already. 565 01:07:46,329 --> 01:07:47,663 Get out of my way. 566 01:07:47,997 --> 01:07:51,834 Gasim's time is come, Lawrence. It is written. 567 01:07:52,043 --> 01:07:53,377 Nothing is written! 568 01:07:56,505 --> 01:07:57,924 Go back, then! 569 01:07:58,341 --> 01:08:01,677 What did you bring us here for with your blasphemous conceit? 570 01:08:02,678 --> 01:08:04,555 English blasphemer! 571 01:08:05,681 --> 01:08:07,266 Aqaba? 572 01:08:07,767 --> 01:08:09,560 Was it Aqaba? 573 01:08:10,394 --> 01:08:13,147 You will not be at Aqaba, English! 574 01:08:15,191 --> 01:08:16,776 Go back, blasphemer... 575 01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:19,362 ...but you will not be at Aqaba. 576 01:08:19,737 --> 01:08:21,447 I shall be at Aqaba. 577 01:08:21,697 --> 01:08:23,741 That is written. 578 01:08:24,367 --> 01:08:25,660 In here. 579 01:08:35,544 --> 01:08:37,296 English! 580 01:08:37,546 --> 01:08:39,215 English! 581 01:15:12,275 --> 01:15:15,194 Lawrence! Daud! 582 01:17:23,614 --> 01:17:25,741 Nothing is written. 583 01:17:57,940 --> 01:17:59,525 Lawrence. 584 01:18:03,946 --> 01:18:05,364 Farraj. 585 01:18:06,490 --> 01:18:07,658 Wash. 586 01:18:44,862 --> 01:18:46,572 Lawrence. 587 01:18:47,031 --> 01:18:51,661 Truly, for some men nothing is written unless they write it. 588 01:18:56,332 --> 01:18:59,335 Not Lawrence. Just Lawrence. 589 01:18:59,543 --> 01:19:02,296 Lawrence is better. -True. 590 01:19:04,298 --> 01:19:06,884 Your father too, just Mr. Lawrence? 591 01:19:13,224 --> 01:19:16,018 My father is Sir Thomas Chapman. 592 01:19:16,227 --> 01:19:19,021 -Is that a lord? -A kind of lord. 593 01:19:19,355 --> 01:19:22,108 Then when he dies, you too will be a lord. 594 01:19:22,358 --> 01:19:23,567 No. 595 01:19:25,736 --> 01:19:27,530 You have an elder brother. 596 01:19:27,697 --> 01:19:28,906 No. 597 01:19:29,073 --> 01:19:34,203 But then, I do not understand this. Your father's name is Chapman. 598 01:19:35,746 --> 01:19:37,707 He didn't marry my mother. 599 01:19:39,208 --> 01:19:40,876 I see. 600 01:19:41,377 --> 01:19:42,753 I'm sorry. 601 01:19:44,714 --> 01:19:48,634 It seems to me that you are free to choose your own name, then. 602 01:19:51,220 --> 01:19:53,723 Yes, I suppose I am. 603 01:19:55,057 --> 01:19:56,767 Lawrence is best. 604 01:19:59,729 --> 01:20:03,858 All right, I'll settle for Lawrence. 605 01:20:33,512 --> 01:20:36,599 They are the robes of a sherif of the Beni Wejh. 606 01:20:49,278 --> 01:20:50,947 Very fine. 607 01:20:52,949 --> 01:20:57,036 -Great honor. -The honor is to us. Salaam, sherif. 608 01:20:57,286 --> 01:20:59,705 -Is it permitted? -Surely. 609 01:21:04,919 --> 01:21:09,966 He for whom nothing is written may write himself a clan. 610 01:21:17,974 --> 01:21:21,227 They are good for riding. Try. 611 01:23:13,339 --> 01:23:15,049 What are you doing, Englishman? 612 01:23:16,425 --> 01:23:17,969 As you see. 613 01:23:19,262 --> 01:23:20,304 Are you alone? 614 01:23:20,763 --> 01:23:22,348 Almost. 615 01:23:30,982 --> 01:23:33,442 Are you with those dogs drinking at my well? 616 01:23:33,693 --> 01:23:35,111 Yours? 617 01:23:38,698 --> 01:23:40,491 I am Auda Abu Tayi. 618 01:23:42,285 --> 01:23:45,121 I've heard of another man of that name. 619 01:23:45,997 --> 01:23:47,707 Other? What other? 620 01:23:48,082 --> 01:23:52,295 The Auda I'd heard of wouldn't need to summon help to look after his wells. 621 01:23:55,798 --> 01:23:57,967 He must be a great hero. 622 01:23:58,175 --> 01:23:59,885 He is. 623 01:24:00,136 --> 01:24:03,306 He wouldn't refuse water to men coming out of Nefud Desert. 624 01:24:03,639 --> 01:24:05,725 Now, would he not? 625 01:24:08,311 --> 01:24:11,147 No, that must be some other man. 626 01:24:13,649 --> 01:24:15,526 Here is my help. 627 01:24:41,218 --> 01:24:43,888 Son, what fashion is this? 628 01:24:45,222 --> 01:24:48,893 -Harith, Father. -What manner of Harith? 629 01:24:49,518 --> 01:24:50,853 A Beni Wejh sherif. 630 01:24:51,854 --> 01:24:53,356 And is he Harith? 631 01:24:53,564 --> 01:24:55,775 No, Father, English. 632 01:24:59,028 --> 01:25:00,363 Son... 633 01:25:01,197 --> 01:25:03,282 ...they are stealing our water. 634 01:25:04,200 --> 01:25:06,035 Tell them we are coming. 635 01:25:06,786 --> 01:25:07,870 Tell them. 636 01:26:17,815 --> 01:26:19,483 -Empty that! -Do not! 637 01:26:21,777 --> 01:26:23,946 It is Auda of the Howeitat who speaks. 638 01:26:24,739 --> 01:26:26,782 It is Ali of the Harith who answers. 639 01:26:42,965 --> 01:26:44,258 Harith. 640 01:26:45,134 --> 01:26:46,302 Ali. 641 01:26:47,011 --> 01:26:49,263 Does your father still steal? 642 01:26:51,349 --> 01:26:52,558 No. 643 01:26:54,185 --> 01:26:57,146 Does Auda take me for one of his own bastards? 644 01:26:58,356 --> 01:27:01,525 No. There is no resemblance. 645 01:27:02,401 --> 01:27:04,820 Alas, you resemble your father. 646 01:27:05,279 --> 01:27:08,157 -Auda flatters me. -You are easily flattered. 647 01:27:08,699 --> 01:27:11,160 I knew your father well. 648 01:27:11,577 --> 01:27:13,412 Did you know your own? 649 01:27:16,791 --> 01:27:21,504 We are 50, you are two. How if we shot you down? 650 01:27:22,004 --> 01:27:25,091 Why, then you have a blood feud with the Howeitat. 651 01:27:26,384 --> 01:27:29,428 -Do you desire it? -Not the generals in Cairo... 652 01:27:29,929 --> 01:27:33,015 ...nor the sultan himself desire that. 653 01:27:36,185 --> 01:27:37,353 Call off your men. 654 01:27:42,900 --> 01:27:45,528 This honors the unworthy. 655 01:27:45,861 --> 01:27:47,947 I've only just begun to teach him. 656 01:27:48,197 --> 01:27:52,451 And what are you teaching him today? Howeitat hospitality? 657 01:27:52,702 --> 01:27:54,704 Be not clever with me, English. 658 01:27:56,414 --> 01:27:59,709 -Who is he? -A friend of Prince Feisal's. 659 01:28:09,218 --> 01:28:12,388 -So you desire my hospitality? -Yes. 660 01:28:12,597 --> 01:28:14,098 Is he your tongue? 661 01:28:14,849 --> 01:28:16,601 We do desire it. 662 01:28:19,770 --> 01:28:22,898 Then it is given, if you will take it. 663 01:28:24,400 --> 01:28:26,235 I'm at my summer camp, a poor place. 664 01:28:26,485 --> 01:28:31,240 Well, to me it seems a poor place. Some men find it marvelous. 665 01:28:31,991 --> 01:28:36,412 Tomorrow, maybe I will allow the Turks to buy you, friends of Feisal. 666 01:28:37,663 --> 01:28:38,914 But... 667 01:28:39,415 --> 01:28:40,750 ...dine with me. 668 01:28:42,126 --> 01:28:43,586 Dine with Auda, English. 669 01:28:44,420 --> 01:28:46,923 Dine with the Howeitat, Harith. 670 01:28:47,673 --> 01:28:52,428 It is my pleasure that you dine with me in Wadi Rumm! 671 01:31:32,088 --> 01:31:35,758 This thing you work against Aqaba... 672 01:31:36,133 --> 01:31:38,552 ...what profit do you hope from it? 673 01:31:38,761 --> 01:31:41,347 We work it for Feisal of Mecca. 674 01:31:41,597 --> 01:31:43,683 The Harith do not work for profit. 675 01:31:44,850 --> 01:31:48,604 Well, if it is in a man to be a servant, Sherif Ali... 676 01:31:49,105 --> 01:31:51,607 ...he could find worse masters than Feisal. 677 01:31:51,941 --> 01:31:54,777 But I.... I cannot serve. 678 01:31:55,653 --> 01:31:58,698 You permit the Turks to stay in Aqaba. 679 01:31:58,948 --> 01:32:00,950 Yes, it is my pleasure. 680 01:32:05,955 --> 01:32:09,458 We do not work this thing for Feisal. 681 01:32:09,959 --> 01:32:10,960 No? 682 01:32:12,003 --> 01:32:14,672 -For the English, then? -For the Arabs. 683 01:32:15,298 --> 01:32:16,716 The Arabs? 684 01:32:17,508 --> 01:32:21,804 The Howeitat, Ageyil, Ruala, Beni Sahkr, these I know. 685 01:32:22,013 --> 01:32:24,015 I have even heard of the Harith. 686 01:32:24,682 --> 01:32:26,183 But the Arabs? 687 01:32:26,642 --> 01:32:28,811 What tribe is that? 688 01:32:30,479 --> 01:32:34,650 They're a tribe of slaves. They serve the Turks. 689 01:32:34,859 --> 01:32:36,902 Well, they are nothing to me. 690 01:32:37,153 --> 01:32:39,030 My tribe is the Howeitat. 691 01:32:39,238 --> 01:32:41,616 Who work only for profit. 692 01:32:41,824 --> 01:32:43,492 Who work at Auda's pleasure. 693 01:32:43,659 --> 01:32:46,329 And Auda's pleasure is to serve the Turks. 694 01:32:46,495 --> 01:32:47,663 Serve? 695 01:32:48,122 --> 01:32:49,165 I serve? 696 01:32:49,373 --> 01:32:52,043 It is the servant who takes money. 697 01:32:57,340 --> 01:32:59,050 I am Auda Abu Tayi. 698 01:32:59,342 --> 01:33:01,177 -Does Auda serve? -No! 699 01:33:01,344 --> 01:33:04,513 -Does Auda Abu Tayi serve? -No! 700 01:33:09,185 --> 01:33:13,272 I carry 23 great wounds, all got in battle. 701 01:33:13,731 --> 01:33:17,234 75 men have I killed with my own hands, in battle. 702 01:33:17,443 --> 01:33:21,656 I scatter, I burn my enemies tents. I take away their flocks and herds. 703 01:33:21,864 --> 01:33:25,952 The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! 704 01:33:26,202 --> 01:33:30,373 Because I am a river to my people. 705 01:33:39,048 --> 01:33:40,216 Is that service? 706 01:33:40,758 --> 01:33:42,051 No. 707 01:33:48,766 --> 01:33:52,270 And yet now it seems Auda has grown old. 708 01:33:52,478 --> 01:33:55,231 And lost his taste for fighting. 709 01:33:55,398 --> 01:33:59,568 It is well you say it in my tent, thou old tulip. 710 01:33:59,777 --> 01:34:03,572 Yet this is a tulip that the Turks could not buy. 711 01:34:03,739 --> 01:34:05,574 Why should they wish to? 712 01:34:07,743 --> 01:34:08,786 Now.... 713 01:34:09,412 --> 01:34:13,582 I will tell you what they pay me, and you will tell me if this is... 714 01:34:13,791 --> 01:34:16,085 ...a servant's wages. 715 01:34:16,252 --> 01:34:20,256 They pay me, month by month... 716 01:34:20,464 --> 01:34:24,594 ...100 golden guineas. 717 01:34:25,761 --> 01:34:28,931 150, Auda. 718 01:34:29,140 --> 01:34:32,101 -Who told you that? -I have long ears. 719 01:34:32,268 --> 01:34:34,604 And a long tongue between them. 720 01:34:34,770 --> 01:34:38,149 100, 150, what matters? It's a trifle. 721 01:34:38,357 --> 01:34:42,153 A trifle which they take from a great box they have. 722 01:34:42,361 --> 01:34:44,363 In Aqaba. 723 01:34:45,615 --> 01:34:48,326 -In Aqaba? -Where else? 724 01:34:49,243 --> 01:34:52,121 You trouble me like women. 725 01:34:52,455 --> 01:34:55,625 Friends, we've been foolish. Auda will not come to Aqaba. 726 01:34:56,292 --> 01:34:57,460 -For money? -No. 727 01:34:57,793 --> 01:34:58,961 -For Feisal? -No! 728 01:34:59,170 --> 01:35:02,256 Nor to drive away the Turks. 729 01:35:03,007 --> 01:35:04,884 He will come... 730 01:35:05,801 --> 01:35:08,137 ...because it is his pleasure. 731 01:35:10,139 --> 01:35:13,809 Thy mother mated with a scorpion. 732 01:35:15,186 --> 01:35:18,648 Make God your agent! 733 01:35:19,982 --> 01:35:22,151 Aqaba! 734 01:35:22,360 --> 01:35:24,028 Aqaba! 735 01:35:39,710 --> 01:35:41,712 God be with you. 736 01:35:44,674 --> 01:35:46,342 God be with you. 737 01:35:59,855 --> 01:36:02,358 God be with you. 738 01:36:02,817 --> 01:36:04,860 God be with you. 739 01:39:00,411 --> 01:39:01,871 Yes. 740 01:39:02,204 --> 01:39:03,247 Aqaba. 741 01:39:04,874 --> 01:39:07,543 Tomorrow we will go and get it. 742 01:39:08,753 --> 01:39:11,714 -Do you think we shall? -Yes. 743 01:39:11,881 --> 01:39:14,634 If you are right about the guns. 744 01:39:42,578 --> 01:39:45,289 He killed. He dies. 745 01:39:46,040 --> 01:39:48,251 This is the end of Aqaba. 746 01:39:50,920 --> 01:39:52,755 One of our men murdered Auda's man. 747 01:39:52,922 --> 01:39:53,923 Why? 748 01:39:54,131 --> 01:39:57,176 Theft? Blood feud? It makes no matter why. 749 01:39:57,635 --> 01:39:58,844 Ali! 750 01:39:59,262 --> 01:40:01,097 It is an ancient wound. 751 01:40:01,305 --> 01:40:04,267 I didn't come here to watch a tribal bloodbath. 752 01:40:08,771 --> 01:40:10,940 It is the law, Lawrence. 753 01:40:11,107 --> 01:40:13,442 The law says the man must die. 754 01:40:14,360 --> 01:40:17,446 If he dies, will that content the Howeitat? 755 01:40:18,447 --> 01:40:19,699 Yes. 756 01:40:23,160 --> 01:40:24,787 Sherif Ali! 757 01:40:24,954 --> 01:40:27,957 If none of lord Auda's men harms any of yours... 758 01:40:28,332 --> 01:40:31,586 -...will that content the Harith? -Yes. 759 01:40:37,717 --> 01:40:40,344 Then I will execute the law. 760 01:40:41,345 --> 01:40:43,472 I have no tribe. 761 01:40:44,724 --> 01:40:47,018 And no one is offended. 762 01:40:59,488 --> 01:41:00,489 Gasim. 763 01:41:04,994 --> 01:41:06,412 Did you do it? 764 01:41:33,356 --> 01:41:35,024 Well, Lawrence.... 765 01:41:42,531 --> 01:41:43,908 What ails the Englishman? 766 01:41:44,158 --> 01:41:47,578 That that he killed was the man he brought out of the Nefud. 767 01:41:47,787 --> 01:41:49,789 It was written, then. 768 01:41:50,665 --> 01:41:52,667 Better to have left him. 769 01:41:56,295 --> 01:41:59,590 It was execution, Lawrence. No shame in that. 770 01:42:00,049 --> 01:42:02,301 Besides, it was necessary. 771 01:42:03,386 --> 01:42:05,596 You gave life and you took it. 772 01:42:06,180 --> 01:42:07,723 The writing is still yours. 773 01:42:44,927 --> 01:42:47,013 Auda Abu Tayi! 774 01:46:03,042 --> 01:46:05,294 The miracle is accomplished. 775 01:46:06,295 --> 01:46:07,922 Garlands for the conqueror. 776 01:46:29,026 --> 01:46:32,196 Tribute for the prince. Flowers for the man. 777 01:46:32,989 --> 01:46:34,699 I'm none of those things, Ali. 778 01:46:34,949 --> 01:46:37,576 -What, then? -Don't know. 779 01:46:38,661 --> 01:46:39,954 Thanks. 780 01:46:41,497 --> 01:46:43,666 My God, I love this country. 781 01:46:45,334 --> 01:46:46,335 What! 782 01:46:47,378 --> 01:46:49,255 No gold in Aqaba! 783 01:46:50,590 --> 01:46:53,009 Auda, I found it! 784 01:47:02,226 --> 01:47:03,853 That's a pity. 785 01:47:07,398 --> 01:47:09,984 Ali, get a message down the coast to Yenbo. 786 01:47:10,192 --> 01:47:12,695 Tell Feisal to find boats, any boats... 787 01:47:12,862 --> 01:47:16,032 ...and bring the Arab army here to Aqaba, quickly. 788 01:47:16,240 --> 01:47:17,408 And you? 789 01:47:18,200 --> 01:47:20,745 I'm going to tell the generals... 790 01:47:21,203 --> 01:47:23,039 ...in Cairo. 791 01:47:23,247 --> 01:47:25,583 Yes, cross Sinai. 792 01:47:25,875 --> 01:47:26,876 Come on! 793 01:47:27,209 --> 01:47:28,544 Sinai? 794 01:47:29,045 --> 01:47:30,379 Yes. 795 01:47:30,880 --> 01:47:34,550 -With these? -They'll be all right with me. 796 01:47:39,805 --> 01:47:43,935 look, Ali. If any of your Bedouin arrived in Cairo and said: 797 01:47:44,226 --> 01:47:47,063 "We've taken Aqaba," the generals would laugh. 798 01:47:47,813 --> 01:47:49,106 I see. 799 01:47:49,732 --> 01:47:52,902 In Cairo you will put off these funny clothes. 800 01:47:53,069 --> 01:47:57,281 You'll wear trousers and tell stories of our quaintness and barbarity... 801 01:47:57,907 --> 01:48:00,159 ...and then they will believe you. 802 01:48:00,743 --> 01:48:02,912 You're an ignorant man. 803 01:48:22,932 --> 01:48:24,350 Paper. 804 01:48:25,268 --> 01:48:27,103 Paper! 805 01:48:29,814 --> 01:48:32,483 There is no gold in Aqaba. 806 01:48:33,609 --> 01:48:35,444 No gold. 807 01:48:36,821 --> 01:48:38,781 No great box! 808 01:48:42,952 --> 01:48:45,288 Did Auda come to Aqaba for gold? 809 01:48:45,830 --> 01:48:48,124 For my pleasure, as you said. 810 01:48:49,375 --> 01:48:51,877 But gold is honorable... 811 01:48:52,962 --> 01:48:55,631 ...and Lawrence promised gold. 812 01:48:56,716 --> 01:48:57,883 Lawrence lied. 813 01:48:59,844 --> 01:49:01,304 See, Auda. 814 01:49:03,973 --> 01:49:06,100 "The Crown of England... 815 01:49:07,184 --> 01:49:09,645 ...promises to pay... 816 01:49:10,646 --> 01:49:15,026 ...5000 golden guineas... 817 01:49:15,526 --> 01:49:20,239 ...to Auda Abu Tayi." 818 01:49:21,365 --> 01:49:25,661 Signed in His Majesty's absence... 819 01:49:25,911 --> 01:49:27,330 ...by... 820 01:49:29,040 --> 01:49:30,249 ...me. 821 01:49:31,334 --> 01:49:33,502 In 10 days... 822 01:49:34,211 --> 01:49:36,339 ...I'll be back with the gold. 823 01:49:37,423 --> 01:49:42,178 With gold, with guns, with everything. 824 01:49:43,262 --> 01:49:44,847 Ten days. 825 01:49:46,140 --> 01:49:47,767 You'll cross Sinai? 826 01:49:48,059 --> 01:49:49,435 Why not? 827 01:49:50,186 --> 01:49:51,896 Moses did. 828 01:49:54,523 --> 01:49:56,734 And you will take the children? 829 01:49:58,027 --> 01:49:59,403 Moses did. 830 01:49:59,654 --> 01:50:01,364 Moses was a prophet... 831 01:50:01,864 --> 01:50:04,450 ...and beloved of God. 832 01:50:09,747 --> 01:50:13,876 He said there was gold here. He lied. 833 01:50:15,169 --> 01:50:18,047 He is not perfect. 834 01:50:28,099 --> 01:50:30,559 lord, can we not rest? 835 01:50:30,726 --> 01:50:33,896 I told you, no rest till they know that I have Aqaba. 836 01:50:36,107 --> 01:50:37,817 Have you two slept in beds? 837 01:50:38,067 --> 01:50:39,277 Farraj? 838 01:50:39,902 --> 01:50:41,195 Daud? 839 01:50:42,405 --> 01:50:44,073 With sheets? 840 01:50:45,992 --> 01:50:49,453 Tomorrow the finest sheets in the finest room and hotel in Cairo. 841 01:50:49,704 --> 01:50:50,997 I promise. 842 01:50:51,247 --> 01:50:53,916 Then it shall be so, lord. 843 01:51:15,271 --> 01:51:16,606 look! 844 01:51:23,362 --> 01:51:24,947 Pillar of fire. 845 01:51:28,159 --> 01:51:30,161 No, lord. Dust. 846 01:52:19,794 --> 01:52:21,295 My compass. 847 01:52:23,089 --> 01:52:24,382 No matter. 848 01:52:24,840 --> 01:52:28,552 If we ride west, we must strike the canal. 849 01:52:29,679 --> 01:52:31,055 Due west. 850 01:52:51,701 --> 01:52:53,202 Come on! 851 01:53:26,611 --> 01:53:29,238 Lawrence! 852 01:53:41,959 --> 01:53:43,252 Farraj! 853 01:53:53,512 --> 01:53:56,432 Farraj, don't! Don't! 854 01:53:57,475 --> 01:53:58,893 Don't! 855 01:55:34,363 --> 01:55:35,531 Why do you walk? 856 01:55:38,284 --> 01:55:40,202 But why, lord? 857 01:55:51,547 --> 01:55:52,798 But why, lord? 858 01:55:53,049 --> 01:55:56,510 There is room for both. It serves no purpose. 859 01:56:22,244 --> 01:56:24,747 Lawrence, look! 860 01:57:33,649 --> 01:57:35,693 It's all right, Farraj. 861 01:57:35,901 --> 01:57:37,486 It's all right. 862 01:58:49,392 --> 01:58:51,269 Who are you? 863 01:58:53,396 --> 01:58:56,065 Who are you? 864 01:59:31,475 --> 01:59:34,103 -Daud! -We're here, sir. 865 01:59:52,288 --> 01:59:53,831 You taking him in there? 866 01:59:54,957 --> 01:59:56,334 Yes. 867 02:00:16,854 --> 02:00:18,272 Here! 868 02:00:20,191 --> 02:00:22,526 Here. You! 869 02:00:24,070 --> 02:00:27,573 And where the hell do you think you're going to, Mustapha? 870 02:00:28,324 --> 02:00:29,825 We are thirsty. 871 02:00:31,661 --> 02:00:34,080 -Mr. Lawrence, is it? -Yes. 872 02:00:34,538 --> 02:00:37,667 -Are you going to the officers' bar? -Yes. 873 02:00:38,876 --> 02:00:41,170 You can't take him in there, sir. 874 02:00:44,840 --> 02:00:47,385 What do you think you look like? 875 02:01:06,070 --> 02:01:07,697 No, no. You must go. 876 02:01:07,905 --> 02:01:09,532 No, no. Go, effendi, go! 877 02:01:11,367 --> 02:01:14,120 Get out! You must get out! Get out! 878 02:01:15,746 --> 02:01:20,042 We want two large glasses of lemonade. 879 02:01:20,251 --> 02:01:24,088 -This is a bar for British officers. -We are not particular. 880 02:01:29,427 --> 02:01:33,347 -Are you off your head? -No. Oddly enough I'm not. 881 02:01:33,598 --> 02:01:37,226 -Just clear out of here, will you? -Get that boy out of here. 882 02:01:37,560 --> 02:01:40,229 Corporal, we'll have this one out anyway. 883 02:01:40,896 --> 02:01:43,441 -Get that wog out of here. -Clear off. 884 02:01:45,568 --> 02:01:47,278 What's going on? 885 02:01:50,239 --> 02:01:54,160 -It's Lawrence, sir. -lemonade with ice. 886 02:01:55,494 --> 02:01:57,079 Explain yourself. 887 02:01:57,788 --> 02:01:59,582 We've taken Aqaba. 888 02:02:00,082 --> 02:02:02,752 -Taken Aqaba? Who has? -We have. 889 02:02:03,002 --> 02:02:07,506 Our side in this war has. The wogs have. 890 02:02:08,257 --> 02:02:09,592 We have. 891 02:02:11,385 --> 02:02:13,262 He likes your lemonade. 892 02:02:13,596 --> 02:02:15,514 You mean the Turks have gone? 893 02:02:15,806 --> 02:02:18,768 No, they're still there but they've no boots. 894 02:02:19,268 --> 02:02:23,397 Prisoners, sir. We took them prisoners. The entire garrison. 895 02:02:23,898 --> 02:02:26,108 That's not true. We killed some. 896 02:02:26,317 --> 02:02:30,279 Too many, really. I'll manage it better next time. 897 02:02:31,614 --> 02:02:34,492 There's been a lot of killing one way or another. 898 02:02:36,619 --> 02:02:40,122 Cross my heart and hope to die, it's all perfectly true. 899 02:02:40,331 --> 02:02:43,125 -It isn't possible. -Yes, it is. 900 02:02:43,459 --> 02:02:45,294 I did it. 901 02:02:50,508 --> 02:02:52,176 You'd better talk to Allenby. 902 02:02:52,468 --> 02:02:55,221 -General Allenby? -He's in command. Murray's gone. 903 02:02:55,471 --> 02:02:57,723 That's a step in the right direction. 904 02:02:58,474 --> 02:03:01,227 First I want a room. With a bed, with sheets. 905 02:03:01,519 --> 02:03:04,230 -Yes, of course. -It's for him. 906 02:03:05,982 --> 02:03:08,859 Right. You want a bed yourself, don't you? 907 02:03:09,151 --> 02:03:11,153 See Allenby first, though. 908 02:03:11,821 --> 02:03:13,447 Will he see me? 909 02:03:14,198 --> 02:03:15,700 I think so. 910 02:03:16,450 --> 02:03:17,994 Do that, then. 911 02:03:22,873 --> 02:03:25,501 -I'd better shave. -Yes, you had. 912 02:03:25,710 --> 02:03:28,337 You'd better get into some trousers too. 913 02:03:39,515 --> 02:03:41,350 "Undisciplined. 914 02:03:43,227 --> 02:03:45,187 Unpunctual. 915 02:03:46,355 --> 02:03:48,274 Untidy. 916 02:03:50,109 --> 02:03:52,236 Several languages. 917 02:03:53,529 --> 02:03:55,531 Knowledge of music... 918 02:03:56,407 --> 02:03:58,200 ...literature. 919 02:03:59,243 --> 02:04:01,203 Knowledge of.... 920 02:04:02,580 --> 02:04:04,373 Knowledge of...." 921 02:04:07,585 --> 02:04:10,546 You're an interesting man, there's no doubt about it. 922 02:04:11,213 --> 02:04:14,300 -Who told you to take Aqaba? -Nobody. 923 02:04:14,592 --> 02:04:17,261 -Sir. -Sir. 924 02:04:17,553 --> 02:04:18,888 Then why did you? 925 02:04:19,055 --> 02:04:21,557 -Aqaba's important. -Why is it important? 926 02:04:21,766 --> 02:04:24,310 -It's the Turkish route to the canal. -Not anymore. 927 02:04:24,560 --> 02:04:28,731 -They're coming through Beersheba. -I know, but we've gone to Gaza. 928 02:04:28,898 --> 02:04:33,527 -So? -So that left Aqaba behind your right. 929 02:04:34,070 --> 02:04:35,112 True. 930 02:04:35,321 --> 02:04:39,951 And it will be further behind your right when you go for Jerusalem. 931 02:04:40,826 --> 02:04:43,245 Am I going for Jerusalem? 932 02:04:43,579 --> 02:04:44,747 Yes. 933 02:04:47,083 --> 02:04:48,542 Very well. 934 02:04:48,751 --> 02:04:51,045 Aqaba behind my right. 935 02:04:51,254 --> 02:04:54,131 It threatened El' Arîsh and Gaza. 936 02:04:55,591 --> 02:04:56,842 Anything else? 937 02:04:57,093 --> 02:04:58,302 Yes. 938 02:04:58,594 --> 02:05:01,055 Aqaba's linked with Medina. 939 02:05:01,597 --> 02:05:04,600 Do you think we should shift them out of Medina now? 940 02:05:04,850 --> 02:05:08,437 No. I think you should leave them there. 941 02:05:08,604 --> 02:05:10,606 You acted without orders, you know. 942 02:05:11,315 --> 02:05:15,569 Shouldn't officers use their initiative at all times? 943 02:05:15,778 --> 02:05:18,114 Not really. It's awfully dangerous. 944 02:05:18,322 --> 02:05:20,658 Yes, I know. 945 02:05:20,950 --> 02:05:22,493 Already? 946 02:05:22,785 --> 02:05:23,953 Yes. 947 02:05:25,705 --> 02:05:28,332 I'm promoting you major. 948 02:05:29,333 --> 02:05:31,627 I don't think that's a very good idea. 949 02:05:31,794 --> 02:05:34,880 I didn't ask you. I want you to go back... 950 02:05:35,131 --> 02:05:38,801 ...and carry on the good work. 951 02:05:39,302 --> 02:05:42,138 No. Thank you, sir. 952 02:05:42,638 --> 02:05:46,601 -Why not? -Well, I, it's.... 953 02:05:46,809 --> 02:05:48,144 let me see now.... 954 02:05:49,854 --> 02:05:53,608 I killed two people. I mean, two Arabs. 955 02:05:53,816 --> 02:05:56,027 One was a boy. 956 02:05:56,235 --> 02:05:57,695 That was... 957 02:05:59,322 --> 02:06:01,157 ...yesterday. 958 02:06:01,365 --> 02:06:03,409 I led him into a quicksand. 959 02:06:03,659 --> 02:06:05,328 The other was a man. 960 02:06:05,661 --> 02:06:07,622 That was... 961 02:06:07,830 --> 02:06:10,249 ...before Aqaba, anyway. 962 02:06:10,917 --> 02:06:13,628 I had to execute him with my pistol. 963 02:06:14,128 --> 02:06:17,173 There was something about it I didn't like. 964 02:06:17,423 --> 02:06:20,551 -Well, naturally. -No. Something else. 965 02:06:22,845 --> 02:06:25,181 That's all right. let it be a warning. 966 02:06:25,389 --> 02:06:27,516 No. Something else. 967 02:06:29,143 --> 02:06:30,728 What, then? 968 02:06:31,646 --> 02:06:34,023 I enjoyed it. 969 02:06:41,530 --> 02:06:45,034 Rubbish. Rubbish and nerves. You're tired. 970 02:06:46,786 --> 02:06:50,414 What do you mean coming dressed like that? Amateur theatricals? 971 02:06:50,665 --> 02:06:52,375 Yes. Entirely. 972 02:06:52,583 --> 02:06:55,711 let me see that hat thing or whatever it is. 973 02:06:56,045 --> 02:06:58,047 Fascinating gear they wear. 974 02:06:58,297 --> 02:07:00,549 How would I look in this, Harry? 975 02:07:00,758 --> 02:07:04,262 -Damn ridiculous, sir. -Here, you keep it. 976 02:07:05,179 --> 02:07:09,267 What I'm trying to say is I don't think I'm fit for it. 977 02:07:09,475 --> 02:07:12,395 Really? What do you think, Dryden? 978 02:07:13,396 --> 02:07:17,984 Before he did it, sir, I'd have said it couldn't be done. 979 02:07:18,317 --> 02:07:21,320 -Brighton? -I know what he thinks. 980 02:07:22,488 --> 02:07:25,825 I think you should recommend a decoration, sir. 981 02:07:26,200 --> 02:07:29,078 I don't think it matters what his motives were. 982 02:07:29,287 --> 02:07:32,415 It was a brilliant bit of soldiering. 983 02:07:33,958 --> 02:07:35,835 -Mr. Perkins! -Sir! 984 02:07:36,085 --> 02:07:38,713 let's have a drink, gentlemen. 985 02:07:42,758 --> 02:07:46,137 -You've heard about this, Mr. Perkins? -Yes, sir. 986 02:07:46,345 --> 02:07:50,641 -What do you think about it? -Bloody marvelous, sir. Well done. 987 02:07:50,850 --> 02:07:53,936 -Thank you, Mr. Perkins. -Sir! 988 02:07:59,609 --> 02:08:01,235 Come on, then. 989 02:08:04,822 --> 02:08:06,616 You're a clever man, sir. 990 02:08:06,949 --> 02:08:10,536 No, but I know a good thing when I see one. 991 02:08:10,786 --> 02:08:13,497 That's fair, surely? 992 02:08:34,018 --> 02:08:39,148 If I need a breakthrough to Jerusalem, I must concentrate, not dissipate. 993 02:08:39,357 --> 02:08:41,651 -Bravo. -You know better? 994 02:09:01,212 --> 02:09:04,048 I fight like Clausewitz, then you fight like Saxe. 995 02:09:04,298 --> 02:09:06,676 We should do very well indeed, shouldn't we? 996 02:09:43,254 --> 02:09:45,715 Easy, gentlemen, please. 997 02:09:46,882 --> 02:09:49,093 -Give us something to drink. -Of course, sir. 998 02:09:49,594 --> 02:09:53,222 I'm here at the invitation of Major Lawrence. 999 02:09:53,973 --> 02:09:55,141 Tracy. 1000 02:09:57,059 --> 02:09:58,894 Shall we go outside? 1001 02:10:10,072 --> 02:10:13,367 So you hold bound the Turkish desert army? 1002 02:10:13,576 --> 02:10:14,619 Yes. 1003 02:10:14,869 --> 02:10:17,163 With 1000 Arabs? 1004 02:10:18,247 --> 02:10:21,417 1000 Arabs means 1000 knives. 1005 02:10:21,584 --> 02:10:23,586 Delivered anywhere, day or night. 1006 02:10:24,128 --> 02:10:25,796 It means 1000 camels. 1007 02:10:26,088 --> 02:10:30,384 That means 1000 packs of high explosives and 1000 crack rifles. 1008 02:10:30,927 --> 02:10:34,680 We can cross Arabia while Johnny Turk is still turning round. 1009 02:10:35,264 --> 02:10:37,183 I'll smash his railways. 1010 02:10:37,433 --> 02:10:39,936 While he mends, I'll smash them somewhere else. 1011 02:10:40,186 --> 02:10:42,980 In 13 weeks I can have Arabia in chaos. 1012 02:10:43,272 --> 02:10:45,608 You are going back, then? 1013 02:10:48,444 --> 02:10:49,695 Yes. 1014 02:10:50,112 --> 02:10:52,448 Of course I'm going back. 1015 02:10:56,786 --> 02:10:59,205 Well, if we can see it, so can the Turk. 1016 02:10:59,455 --> 02:11:03,709 If he finds he's using four divisions to fend off a handful of bandits... 1017 02:11:03,960 --> 02:11:05,127 ...he'll withdraw. 1018 02:11:05,294 --> 02:11:08,047 He daren't withdraw. Arabia's part of his empire. 1019 02:11:08,297 --> 02:11:10,800 If he gets out now, he'll never get back again. 1020 02:11:11,050 --> 02:11:13,552 -I wonder who will. -No one will. 1021 02:11:14,178 --> 02:11:16,430 Arabia's for the Arabs now. 1022 02:11:22,436 --> 02:11:24,730 That's what I've told them anyway. 1023 02:11:25,189 --> 02:11:27,024 That's what they think. 1024 02:11:27,483 --> 02:11:30,736 -That's why they're fighting. -Oh, surely. 1025 02:11:33,698 --> 02:11:35,992 They've only one suspicion. 1026 02:11:36,450 --> 02:11:40,830 That we'll let them drive the Turks out and then move in ourselves. 1027 02:11:41,038 --> 02:11:45,543 I've told them that that's false, that we have no ambitions in Arabia. 1028 02:11:45,751 --> 02:11:46,836 Have we? 1029 02:11:47,336 --> 02:11:49,505 I'm not a politician, thank God. 1030 02:11:49,714 --> 02:11:52,842 Have we any ambition in Arabia, Dryden? 1031 02:11:53,843 --> 02:11:56,095 Difficult question, sir. 1032 02:11:58,097 --> 02:12:01,892 I want to know, sir, if I can tell them in your name... 1033 02:12:02,101 --> 02:12:05,521 ...that we've no ambitions in Arabia. 1034 02:12:06,564 --> 02:12:08,065 Certainly. 1035 02:12:25,583 --> 02:12:29,045 2000 small arms, not enough. I need five. 1036 02:12:29,253 --> 02:12:30,421 Right. 1037 02:12:30,713 --> 02:12:34,050 Money. It'll have to be sovereigns. They don't like paper. 1038 02:12:35,051 --> 02:12:38,429 -Instructors for the lewis guns. -Right. 1039 02:12:38,638 --> 02:12:40,222 More money. 1040 02:12:40,556 --> 02:12:43,726 -How much more? -25,000 now. A lot more later. 1041 02:12:43,935 --> 02:12:46,646 -Dryden? -It can be done, sir. 1042 02:12:46,896 --> 02:12:49,732 A couple of armored cars. 1043 02:12:49,899 --> 02:12:51,275 Right. 1044 02:12:52,026 --> 02:12:53,569 Field artillery. 1045 02:12:55,738 --> 02:12:57,114 Right. 1046 02:13:00,076 --> 02:13:02,328 I'll give you every blessed thing I can... 1047 02:13:02,578 --> 02:13:05,456 ...because I know you'll use it. Congratulations. 1048 02:13:05,665 --> 02:13:08,417 Thank you for your hospitality, gentlemen. 1049 02:13:44,078 --> 02:13:45,955 Congratulations! 1050 02:13:56,215 --> 02:13:59,302 Are you really going to give them artillery, sir? 1051 02:13:59,510 --> 02:14:01,345 I was wondering that, sir. 1052 02:14:01,596 --> 02:14:03,806 Might be difficult to get it back. 1053 02:14:04,015 --> 02:14:07,602 Give them artillery and you've made them independent. 1054 02:14:07,810 --> 02:14:09,729 Then I can't give it to them, can I? 1055 02:14:09,979 --> 02:14:11,897 -For you to say. -No, it's not. 1056 02:14:12,148 --> 02:14:14,900 I've got orders to obey, thank God. 1057 02:14:15,151 --> 02:14:17,111 Not like that poor devil. 1058 02:14:17,612 --> 02:14:19,155 He's riding the whirlwind. 1059 02:14:19,363 --> 02:14:21,616 let's hope we're not.