1 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,253 Excuse me, friend. Who do these bags belong to? 2 00:00:30,795 --> 00:00:32,005 To Prince Feisal. 3 00:00:32,255 --> 00:00:35,008 -You're not Prince Feisal? -No. 4 00:00:35,300 --> 00:00:36,635 You know him though? 5 00:00:36,801 --> 00:00:40,305 He is my master. I am his servant. 6 00:00:43,475 --> 00:00:44,809 Can you read? 7 00:00:53,485 --> 00:00:57,989 Chicago Courier is my paper, but my work is syndicated in America. 8 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:01,785 I understood so from your letter, Mr. Bentley. 9 00:01:15,966 --> 00:01:17,133 Now.... 10 00:01:18,343 --> 00:01:22,305 -Where can I find Major Lawrence? -Is that what you have come for? 11 00:01:22,514 --> 00:01:24,641 Not altogether, sir, no. 12 00:01:24,891 --> 00:01:29,271 Well, Mr. Bentley, you will find Major Lawrence with my army. 13 00:01:29,479 --> 00:01:32,566 That's what I meant, sir. Where can I find your army? 14 00:01:32,857 --> 00:01:34,025 I don't know. 15 00:01:34,693 --> 00:01:37,362 -Last week they were near El Ghira. -Ghira? 16 00:01:37,571 --> 00:01:41,408 Yes, I fear you have a long journey. Can you ride a camel? 17 00:01:42,367 --> 00:01:44,995 -I've never tried. -Take a mule. 18 00:01:45,537 --> 00:01:47,664 Avoid Mellaha, the Turks are there. 19 00:01:48,039 --> 00:01:50,667 In Mellaha now? They move fast. 20 00:01:50,875 --> 00:01:52,168 They do. 21 00:01:52,377 --> 00:01:55,547 But not so fast as we do, you will find. 22 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:57,382 Myself... 23 00:01:58,008 --> 00:01:59,884 ...I am going to Cairo. 24 00:02:00,093 --> 00:02:02,095 -As you know. -Yes. 25 00:02:02,345 --> 00:02:04,848 There's work for me there of a different kind. 26 00:02:05,390 --> 00:02:06,600 Yes. 27 00:02:10,186 --> 00:02:12,564 I understand you've been given no artillery. 28 00:02:13,023 --> 00:02:15,567 -That is so. -You're handicapped? 29 00:02:15,734 --> 00:02:17,819 It restricts us to small things. 30 00:02:18,028 --> 00:02:19,321 It's intended to. 31 00:02:22,032 --> 00:02:23,617 Do you know General Allenby? 32 00:02:24,618 --> 00:02:28,079 Watch out for Allenby. He's a slim customer. 33 00:02:28,413 --> 00:02:31,082 -Excuse me? -A clever man. 34 00:02:31,374 --> 00:02:34,252 Slim customer. It's very good. 35 00:02:34,544 --> 00:02:39,090 I'll certainly watch out for him. You're being very sympathetic. 36 00:02:39,382 --> 00:02:42,886 Your Highness, we Americans were once a colonial people. 37 00:02:43,094 --> 00:02:45,472 We naturally feel sympathetic to any people... 38 00:02:45,722 --> 00:02:47,933 ...who struggle for their freedom. 39 00:02:48,099 --> 00:02:50,352 Very gratifying. 40 00:02:53,104 --> 00:02:57,442 Also, my interests are the same as yours. You want your story told. 41 00:02:57,609 --> 00:02:59,945 I badly want a story to tell. 42 00:03:00,153 --> 00:03:03,949 Ah, now you are talking turkey, are you not? 43 00:03:04,616 --> 00:03:07,452 I will give you a guide and a letter. 44 00:03:07,661 --> 00:03:09,621 And before I leave here... 45 00:03:09,913 --> 00:03:12,249 ...which must be presently... 46 00:03:12,457 --> 00:03:15,961 ...I will have some facts and figures put on paper for you. 47 00:03:17,754 --> 00:03:21,007 You know that we are destroying the Turkish railways. 48 00:03:21,258 --> 00:03:22,384 I do, sir. 49 00:03:22,592 --> 00:03:25,512 Major Lawrence is in charge of all this, is he? 50 00:03:25,762 --> 00:03:28,265 My army is made up of tribes. 51 00:03:28,473 --> 00:03:31,476 The tribes are led by the tribal leaders. 52 00:03:31,643 --> 00:03:34,813 Your people do think very highly of Major Lawrence? 53 00:03:35,021 --> 00:03:38,108 Oh, yes. And the rightly. 54 00:03:38,692 --> 00:03:42,028 In this country, Mr. Bentley... 55 00:03:42,904 --> 00:03:46,324 ...the man who gives victory in battle is prized... 56 00:03:46,491 --> 00:03:49,160 ...beyond every other man. 57 00:03:49,828 --> 00:03:52,998 One figure I can give you from my head... 58 00:03:53,164 --> 00:03:56,835 ...because it never leaves my head. 59 00:03:57,335 --> 00:04:01,423 Since starting this campaign four months ago, we have lost... 60 00:04:02,340 --> 00:04:04,801 ...37 wounded... 61 00:04:07,345 --> 00:04:10,682 ...156 dead. 62 00:04:12,225 --> 00:04:17,022 You remark the disproportion between our dead and wounded. 63 00:04:17,230 --> 00:04:18,523 Yeah. 64 00:04:18,857 --> 00:04:20,233 Four times as many. 65 00:04:20,483 --> 00:04:25,196 That's because those too wounded to bring away, we ourselves kill. 66 00:04:25,447 --> 00:04:27,949 We leave no wounded for the Turks. 67 00:04:28,366 --> 00:04:32,037 -You mean...? -We leave no wounded for the Turks. 68 00:04:32,537 --> 00:04:35,957 In their eyes, we are not soldiers but rebels. 69 00:04:36,166 --> 00:04:40,670 Rebels, wounded or whole, are not protected by the Geneva Code... 70 00:04:40,879 --> 00:04:42,756 ...and are treated harshly. 71 00:04:43,465 --> 00:04:44,549 How harshly? 72 00:04:44,841 --> 00:04:47,719 More harshly than I hope you can imagine. 73 00:04:48,511 --> 00:04:49,554 I see. 74 00:04:49,721 --> 00:04:52,974 Our own prisoners are taken care of until the British... 75 00:04:53,183 --> 00:04:57,020 ...can relieve us of them, according to the Code. 76 00:04:57,229 --> 00:05:01,274 -I should like you to notice that. -Yes, sir. 77 00:05:02,275 --> 00:05:04,903 Is that the influence of Major Lawrence? 78 00:05:05,362 --> 00:05:06,738 Why should you suppose? 79 00:05:06,988 --> 00:05:09,407 It's just that I heard in Cairo that... 80 00:05:09,616 --> 00:05:12,077 ...Major Lawrence has a horror of bloodshed. 81 00:05:12,285 --> 00:05:13,995 That is exactly so. 82 00:05:14,204 --> 00:05:17,707 With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. 83 00:05:18,041 --> 00:05:20,919 With me, it is merely good manners. 84 00:05:21,086 --> 00:05:25,257 You may judge which motive is the more reliable. 85 00:05:25,882 --> 00:05:29,261 -And now, perhaps.... -Oh, sure, sure. 86 00:05:33,390 --> 00:05:35,058 Thank you, sir. 87 00:05:35,267 --> 00:05:37,018 Can you manage the letter--? 88 00:05:37,269 --> 00:05:40,105 I'll do everything I have said... 89 00:05:40,313 --> 00:05:43,900 ...if you will tell me truly the nature of your interest... 90 00:05:44,109 --> 00:05:46,528 ...in my people and Major Lawrence. 91 00:05:48,446 --> 00:05:51,575 It's very simple, sir. I'm looking for a hero. 92 00:05:51,783 --> 00:05:54,286 Indeed. You do not seem a romantic man. 93 00:05:54,619 --> 00:05:55,620 Oh, no. 94 00:05:55,912 --> 00:05:59,666 But influential men back home believe it's time for America... 95 00:05:59,916 --> 00:06:02,627 ...to lend her weight to the struggle against Germany. 96 00:06:02,836 --> 00:06:04,838 And Turkey. 97 00:06:05,130 --> 00:06:09,467 I've been sent to find material to show our people that this war is.... 98 00:06:09,968 --> 00:06:12,429 -Enjoyable? -Hardly that, sir. 99 00:06:12,637 --> 00:06:15,640 But to show it in its more adventurous aspects. 100 00:06:15,849 --> 00:06:19,477 You look for a figure who will draw your country towards war. 101 00:06:21,062 --> 00:06:22,856 All right. Yes. 102 00:06:23,481 --> 00:06:25,150 Lawrence is your man. 103 00:07:05,023 --> 00:07:06,024 Stop! 104 00:07:25,418 --> 00:07:27,045 Stop it! 105 00:07:27,879 --> 00:07:29,256 Stop it! 106 00:07:37,430 --> 00:07:38,932 Come on, men! 107 00:08:48,126 --> 00:08:49,461 Lawrence! 108 00:09:10,148 --> 00:09:12,150 Good God! God! 109 00:09:58,530 --> 00:10:03,326 Jiminy! Never seen a man killed with a sword before. 110 00:10:03,577 --> 00:10:05,829 Why don't you take a picture? 111 00:10:06,204 --> 00:10:07,497 Wish I had. 112 00:10:11,710 --> 00:10:13,920 How is it with thee, Lawrence? 113 00:10:16,172 --> 00:10:17,215 Am I in this? 114 00:10:18,216 --> 00:10:19,926 Did you take his picture? 115 00:10:20,176 --> 00:10:21,428 Yeah. 116 00:10:25,849 --> 00:10:30,020 You are using up your nine lives very quickly. 117 00:10:32,522 --> 00:10:34,566 Charming company you keep. 118 00:10:34,816 --> 00:10:36,067 Auda? 119 00:10:36,860 --> 00:10:41,907 He's a bit old-fashioned. He thinks these things will steal his virtue. 120 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:44,326 He thinks you're a kind of thief. 121 00:10:44,576 --> 00:10:46,703 It's all right to take your picture? 122 00:10:47,245 --> 00:10:48,747 -All right. -Okay. 123 00:10:48,955 --> 00:10:50,415 Just walk. 124 00:11:50,642 --> 00:11:52,811 Major Lawrence! 125 00:11:53,436 --> 00:11:56,147 Yes, sir, that's my baby. 126 00:12:04,155 --> 00:12:06,783 This looting has got to stop! 127 00:12:06,992 --> 00:12:08,326 It is customary. 128 00:12:08,618 --> 00:12:12,163 It's theft. And theft makes thieves. 129 00:12:12,455 --> 00:12:14,666 I would not say that to Auda. 130 00:12:15,166 --> 00:12:17,961 -It is their payment, colonel. -Payment. 131 00:12:18,169 --> 00:12:20,964 Truly. Are not British soldiers paid? 132 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:25,176 -They don't go home when being paid. -They are not free to. 133 00:12:29,973 --> 00:12:34,060 Well, there's another lot you've seen the last of. 134 00:12:34,352 --> 00:12:35,979 They'll come back. 135 00:12:36,813 --> 00:12:39,733 He says they'll come back. Will they? 136 00:12:40,025 --> 00:12:42,193 Not this year, Lawrence. 137 00:12:42,944 --> 00:12:47,365 Look, Lawrence, how many men do you think you'll have left? 200? 138 00:12:47,574 --> 00:12:50,368 -Less. -Well, then? 139 00:12:50,702 --> 00:12:53,038 I said, they'll come back. 140 00:12:53,747 --> 00:12:54,956 You badly hurt? 141 00:12:56,499 --> 00:12:58,251 Not hurt at all. 142 00:12:58,501 --> 00:13:02,672 Didn't you know? They can only kill me with a golden bullet. 143 00:13:18,396 --> 00:13:22,234 It is for children. I have set myself to learn again. 144 00:13:22,692 --> 00:13:26,238 -What are you learning from this? -Politics. 145 00:13:26,905 --> 00:13:31,409 You'll be a democracy in this country? You gonna have a parliament? 146 00:13:32,077 --> 00:13:34,371 I will tell you that when I have a country. 147 00:13:36,623 --> 00:13:37,916 Did I answer well? 148 00:13:38,291 --> 00:13:42,504 You answered without saying anything. That's politics. 149 00:13:43,755 --> 00:13:45,423 You learn quickly. 150 00:13:46,758 --> 00:13:48,927 I have a good teacher. 151 00:13:51,554 --> 00:13:52,931 Yeah. 152 00:14:00,647 --> 00:14:02,524 -How's your hurt? -Fine. 153 00:14:02,732 --> 00:14:07,571 Before I return to the fleshpots, which I shall be very glad to do... 154 00:14:07,779 --> 00:14:10,824 ...may I put two questions to you, straight? 155 00:14:11,116 --> 00:14:14,452 I'd be interested to hear you put a question straight. 156 00:14:14,661 --> 00:14:15,829 One. 157 00:14:16,288 --> 00:14:20,250 What, in your opinion, do these people hope to gain from this war? 158 00:14:20,542 --> 00:14:22,961 They hope to gain their freedom. 159 00:14:24,254 --> 00:14:25,297 Freedom. 160 00:14:26,590 --> 00:14:29,426 "They hope to gain their freedom." 161 00:14:29,634 --> 00:14:33,305 -There's one born every minute. -They're going to get it. 162 00:14:34,097 --> 00:14:36,308 I'm going to give it to them. 163 00:14:37,976 --> 00:14:43,815 -The second question? -Well, I was going to ask... 164 00:14:44,316 --> 00:14:48,278 ...what is it that attracts you personally to the desert? 165 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,324 It's clean. 166 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:56,703 Well, now... 167 00:14:57,579 --> 00:14:59,706 ...that's a very illuminating answer. 168 00:15:00,081 --> 00:15:01,708 May I... 169 00:15:02,334 --> 00:15:04,836 ...take one farewell picture? 170 00:15:05,670 --> 00:15:08,715 I gave Math Budad two lamps for it. 171 00:15:09,007 --> 00:15:11,968 One clock for two lamps. 172 00:15:12,469 --> 00:15:13,678 A fair bargain. 173 00:15:13,887 --> 00:15:16,514 Fair? I robbed him. 174 00:15:27,984 --> 00:15:29,486 Trash. 175 00:15:30,612 --> 00:15:33,031 I must find something honorable. 176 00:15:33,323 --> 00:15:34,866 Honorable? 177 00:15:35,492 --> 00:15:39,246 The year is running out, Brighton. 178 00:15:43,667 --> 00:15:46,670 I must find something honorable. 179 00:18:18,196 --> 00:18:20,365 Now you may blow up my train. 180 00:18:20,657 --> 00:18:22,367 And what will you do now? 181 00:18:22,576 --> 00:18:27,163 Now I go home. They will carry my toys. 182 00:18:27,914 --> 00:18:29,916 They will carry my toys too, see? 183 00:18:30,333 --> 00:18:33,378 Major Lawrence will campaign this winter. 184 00:18:33,670 --> 00:18:37,048 But you got what you wanted, so you're going home, is that it? 185 00:18:37,215 --> 00:18:41,886 Of course. When Lawrence has got what he wants, he will go home. 186 00:18:42,095 --> 00:18:44,681 When you've got what you want, you will go home. 187 00:18:44,889 --> 00:18:46,558 No, I shan't, Auda. 188 00:18:47,350 --> 00:18:48,727 Then you are a fool. 189 00:18:49,394 --> 00:18:52,397 Maybe. But I am not a deserter. 190 00:18:53,523 --> 00:18:55,734 Give thanks to God, Brighton... 191 00:18:55,942 --> 00:18:59,070 ...that when he made you a fool, he gave you a fool's face. 192 00:19:00,322 --> 00:19:02,407 You are an impudent rascal. 193 00:19:03,909 --> 00:19:08,246 I must go, Lawrence, before I soil myself with a fool's blood. 194 00:19:18,632 --> 00:19:20,383 Like talking to a brick wall. 195 00:19:29,059 --> 00:19:31,728 So what will you do now? What can you do? 196 00:19:32,395 --> 00:19:34,105 I'll go north. 197 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:37,275 That's what Allenby wants. 198 00:19:37,484 --> 00:19:41,613 Allenby wanted the Arab army behind Deraa. 199 00:19:41,863 --> 00:19:44,115 Then that's where I'll take it. 200 00:19:45,116 --> 00:19:49,955 Tell Allenby to hurry up, or we'll be in Deraa before he's in Jerusalem. 201 00:19:50,247 --> 00:19:51,414 Won't we? 202 00:20:23,905 --> 00:20:24,948 Train, Farraj. 203 00:20:25,991 --> 00:20:27,492 Yeah, Lawrence. 204 00:20:56,688 --> 00:20:58,523 Hide yourself, my friend. 205 00:21:07,741 --> 00:21:09,200 Detonator. 206 00:21:22,714 --> 00:21:24,382 All right, fetch another. 207 00:21:24,591 --> 00:21:28,386 -Pardon, Lawrence. I put-- -Plenty of time. Fetch another. 208 00:21:33,850 --> 00:21:35,226 Farraj? 209 00:21:45,528 --> 00:21:48,573 -What happened? -Detonator. A detonator! 210 00:22:02,087 --> 00:22:04,589 He cannot ride, Lawrence. Look. 211 00:22:14,099 --> 00:22:16,935 If they take him alive, you know what they'll do to him. 212 00:22:29,322 --> 00:22:31,783 Daud will be angry with you. 213 00:22:32,784 --> 00:22:34,661 Salute him for me. 214 00:22:54,472 --> 00:22:56,141 What will you do now? 215 00:22:57,601 --> 00:22:59,102 Go north. 216 00:22:59,311 --> 00:23:00,770 With twenty? 217 00:23:01,646 --> 00:23:04,107 What would you recommend me to do? 218 00:23:05,817 --> 00:23:07,819 What would you recommend? 219 00:23:12,824 --> 00:23:15,160 He hasn't 1/10 so many men, sir. 220 00:23:15,327 --> 00:23:17,203 He's lied, in fact. 221 00:23:18,580 --> 00:23:22,292 Yes and no. He doesn't claim to have done anything he hasn't done. 222 00:23:22,500 --> 00:23:25,170 Then there is an Arab north army. 223 00:23:26,671 --> 00:23:31,176 -No, sir, he has lied about that. -Any idea why? 224 00:23:31,593 --> 00:23:35,597 -It's his army, I suppose. -It's Prince Feisal's army. 225 00:23:37,015 --> 00:23:39,517 Do you think he's gone native, Harry? 226 00:23:40,852 --> 00:23:42,479 No. 227 00:23:43,521 --> 00:23:47,234 He would if he could, I think. 228 00:23:49,027 --> 00:23:52,489 -Not my line of country. -It doesn't matter. Just curious. 229 00:23:53,198 --> 00:23:55,408 What matters is I believed it. 230 00:23:55,700 --> 00:23:57,369 The Turks believe it. 231 00:23:57,661 --> 00:24:01,039 They are offering 20,000 pounds for him. 232 00:24:02,999 --> 00:24:04,751 Good heavens. 233 00:24:05,210 --> 00:24:08,922 -Shouldn't say he had long to live. -Whatever else, he's a brave man-- 234 00:24:09,172 --> 00:24:13,551 Surely, surely. If he's still going north with 50 men, he doesn't lack guts. 235 00:24:14,719 --> 00:24:17,514 I wonder if they'd offer that much for me. 236 00:24:19,224 --> 00:24:23,353 What about next year? Will they still come back? 237 00:24:23,562 --> 00:24:25,564 I wouldn't be surprised. 238 00:24:25,772 --> 00:24:29,401 -They think he's a kind of prophet. -They do or he does? 239 00:24:45,041 --> 00:24:47,586 -Now may I speak? -Yes. 240 00:24:48,253 --> 00:24:51,423 One more failure and you will find yourself alone. 241 00:24:52,799 --> 00:24:56,303 -I do not include myself. -I do not include the others. 242 00:24:56,595 --> 00:24:58,763 So say they love you. 243 00:24:59,222 --> 00:25:01,725 The more reason to be thrifty with them. 244 00:25:01,933 --> 00:25:05,061 Give them something to do that can be done. But you, no. 245 00:25:05,270 --> 00:25:07,439 They must move mountains, walk on water. 246 00:25:07,689 --> 00:25:10,901 That's right. That's right. 247 00:25:11,484 --> 00:25:13,987 Who are you to know what can be done? 248 00:25:14,446 --> 00:25:18,116 If we'd done what you thought could be done, we'd be in Yenbo now. 249 00:25:18,700 --> 00:25:23,121 Whatever I ask them to do can be done. They know that if you don't. 250 00:25:25,248 --> 00:25:28,209 Do you think I'm just anybody? 251 00:25:28,710 --> 00:25:30,086 Do you? 252 00:25:33,298 --> 00:25:36,635 My friends, who will walk on water with me? 253 00:25:40,096 --> 00:25:44,476 -Who will come with me into Deraa? -Deraa is garrisoned. 254 00:25:44,643 --> 00:25:46,770 Will you take 20 against 2000? 255 00:25:46,978 --> 00:25:50,732 -I'll go by myself if I have to. -Why? 256 00:25:50,982 --> 00:25:52,817 Because I told the English generals... 257 00:25:53,109 --> 00:25:56,738 ...the Arab revolt would be in Deraa when they'd be in Jerusalem. 258 00:25:57,155 --> 00:25:59,282 Or perhaps you are here... 259 00:25:59,866 --> 00:26:01,826 ...for the English generals. 260 00:26:03,870 --> 00:26:05,538 Who says this? 261 00:26:05,830 --> 00:26:07,165 Rumor. 262 00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:11,002 That is not an argument. 263 00:26:11,253 --> 00:26:13,463 Oh, argument. 264 00:26:13,672 --> 00:26:17,008 This afternoon I will take the Arab revolt into Deraa... 265 00:26:17,300 --> 00:26:19,678 ...while the Arabs argue. 266 00:26:21,638 --> 00:26:24,766 Can you pass for an Arab in an Arab town? 267 00:26:25,141 --> 00:26:28,895 Yes. If one of you would lend me some dirty clothes. 268 00:26:38,154 --> 00:26:39,364 It's madness. 269 00:26:42,867 --> 00:26:44,661 What are you looking for? 270 00:26:44,869 --> 00:26:47,372 Some way to announce myself. 271 00:26:47,581 --> 00:26:49,541 Be patient with him, God. 272 00:27:02,929 --> 00:27:07,225 -Do you not see how they look at you? -Peace, Ali, I am invisible. 273 00:27:07,392 --> 00:27:08,727 Halt! 274 00:27:08,935 --> 00:27:10,186 Walk on. 275 00:27:10,395 --> 00:27:12,230 -Halt! -Walk on. 276 00:27:13,398 --> 00:27:15,567 You and you. 277 00:28:56,710 --> 00:28:57,794 You. 278 00:29:14,352 --> 00:29:16,354 You have blue eyes. 279 00:29:17,230 --> 00:29:21,484 -I say you have blue eyes. -Yes, effendi. 280 00:29:21,693 --> 00:29:24,988 -Are you Circassian? -Yes, effendi. 281 00:29:25,864 --> 00:29:27,449 How old are you? 282 00:29:27,699 --> 00:29:30,702 Twenty-seven, effendi. 283 00:29:30,952 --> 00:29:32,829 I think. 284 00:29:33,038 --> 00:29:37,584 You look older. You have had a lot of experience. 285 00:29:38,877 --> 00:29:40,962 It's an interesting face. 286 00:29:45,592 --> 00:29:48,053 I am surrounded by cattle. 287 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,390 He wouldn't know an interesting face from a sow's belly. 288 00:29:53,391 --> 00:29:57,395 I have been is Deraa now for three and a half years. 289 00:29:57,604 --> 00:30:02,025 If they posted me to the dark side of the moon, I could not be more... 290 00:30:02,234 --> 00:30:04,069 ...isolated. 291 00:30:05,987 --> 00:30:08,573 You haven't the least idea what I'm talking about. 292 00:30:08,865 --> 00:30:10,575 No, effendi. 293 00:30:13,119 --> 00:30:14,537 Have you? 294 00:30:15,747 --> 00:30:17,040 No. 295 00:30:17,749 --> 00:30:19,584 That would be too... 296 00:30:19,793 --> 00:30:21,419 ...lucky. 297 00:30:45,902 --> 00:30:47,654 Where did you get that? 298 00:30:49,573 --> 00:30:53,743 -It's old, effendi. -No, this is recent. 299 00:30:55,787 --> 00:30:58,039 -You are a deserter. -No, effendi. 300 00:30:58,290 --> 00:31:00,166 Yes, you are a deserter. 301 00:31:01,293 --> 00:31:03,545 But from which army? 302 00:31:06,047 --> 00:31:08,300 Not that it matters at all. 303 00:31:08,633 --> 00:31:10,969 A man cannot be always in uniform. 304 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,441 Your skin is very fair. 305 00:31:43,335 --> 00:31:44,628 Beat him. 306 00:33:19,180 --> 00:33:20,557 To me! 307 00:35:23,054 --> 00:35:24,598 Sleep. 308 00:35:26,391 --> 00:35:27,934 Sleep. 309 00:35:39,738 --> 00:35:41,072 Eat. 310 00:35:46,912 --> 00:35:48,204 Eat. 311 00:35:52,042 --> 00:35:54,878 You have a body, like other men. 312 00:36:03,386 --> 00:36:04,429 Good. 313 00:36:05,597 --> 00:36:07,390 Then sleep. 314 00:36:20,904 --> 00:36:22,155 Better? 315 00:36:22,781 --> 00:36:25,492 Much better. You were right. 316 00:36:25,784 --> 00:36:27,953 Rest, rest. Can you not learn? 317 00:36:28,912 --> 00:36:30,956 Oh, I've learned all right. 318 00:36:36,753 --> 00:36:38,463 I'm going, Ali. 319 00:36:39,506 --> 00:36:41,633 -Why? -Why? 320 00:36:42,926 --> 00:36:44,177 Heavens. 321 00:36:44,469 --> 00:36:45,762 Why? 322 00:36:46,638 --> 00:36:48,890 I've come to the end of myself, I suppose. 323 00:36:49,140 --> 00:36:51,142 And the end of the Arab revolt? 324 00:36:51,434 --> 00:36:54,521 I'm not the Arab revolt, Ali. I'm not even Arab. 325 00:36:54,813 --> 00:36:57,816 A man can be whatever he wants. You said. 326 00:36:58,108 --> 00:37:01,111 I'm sorry. I thought it was true. 327 00:37:01,319 --> 00:37:03,280 You proved it. 328 00:37:03,488 --> 00:37:05,657 Look, Ali. Look. 329 00:37:05,949 --> 00:37:09,703 That's me. What color is it? That's me. 330 00:37:10,495 --> 00:37:12,831 And there's nothing I can do about it. 331 00:37:12,998 --> 00:37:15,667 A man can do whatever he wants. You said. 332 00:37:17,460 --> 00:37:18,920 He can... 333 00:37:19,129 --> 00:37:22,007 ...but he can't want what he wants. 334 00:37:22,966 --> 00:37:26,177 This is the stuff that decides what he wants. 335 00:37:29,014 --> 00:37:32,809 You may as well know. I would've told them anything. 336 00:37:33,018 --> 00:37:36,980 I would've told them who I am. I would've told them where you were. 337 00:37:37,188 --> 00:37:39,983 -I tried to. -So would any man. 338 00:37:40,191 --> 00:37:43,695 Well, any man is what I am. 339 00:37:44,696 --> 00:37:48,700 And I'm going back to Allenby to ask him for a job... 340 00:37:48,992 --> 00:37:51,036 ...that any man can do. 341 00:37:51,328 --> 00:37:53,204 Allenby's in Jerusalem. 342 00:37:53,496 --> 00:37:56,207 -I'll make easy stages. -You? 343 00:37:57,751 --> 00:38:01,212 Oh, yes. Easy stages. 344 00:38:03,006 --> 00:38:07,552 Look, Ali, I think I see a way of being just... 345 00:38:07,761 --> 00:38:09,387 ...ordinarily... 346 00:38:10,055 --> 00:38:11,473 ...happy. 347 00:38:15,268 --> 00:38:16,895 Can I take this? 348 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,397 It is not clean. 349 00:38:19,689 --> 00:38:22,734 No, but it's warm. 350 00:38:23,109 --> 00:38:24,402 And these... 351 00:38:24,611 --> 00:38:28,573 ...having led them here, have you no care for them? 352 00:38:30,075 --> 00:38:35,247 You lead them. They're yours. Trust your own people. 353 00:38:37,499 --> 00:38:39,709 And let me go back to mine. 354 00:39:08,822 --> 00:39:11,950 -I say, don't forget those form fives. -All right. 355 00:39:17,789 --> 00:39:19,624 Mind if I join you? 356 00:39:20,458 --> 00:39:22,127 Honored, sir. 357 00:39:24,462 --> 00:39:27,799 -Good to be back. -We heard you were, sir. 358 00:39:28,341 --> 00:39:30,927 -What's doing out there? -Where? 359 00:39:31,136 --> 00:39:33,430 -Arabia? -Well, yes, sir. 360 00:39:33,638 --> 00:39:36,975 Nothing much. Wrong time of year. What's doing here? 361 00:39:37,267 --> 00:39:39,644 We're settling in. We built a squash court. 362 00:39:39,853 --> 00:39:41,313 Jolly good. 363 00:39:42,147 --> 00:39:46,151 Well, I have to go up there. 364 00:39:47,152 --> 00:39:49,613 It's borrowed. Someone pinched mine. 365 00:39:49,821 --> 00:39:51,573 Bloody wogs. 366 00:39:52,991 --> 00:39:54,868 Yes, probably. 367 00:39:55,619 --> 00:39:57,996 Jolly good about the squash court. 368 00:40:00,707 --> 00:40:03,209 Lays it on a bit thick, doesn't he? 369 00:40:16,473 --> 00:40:17,724 Morning. 370 00:40:17,891 --> 00:40:19,684 -Good morning, sir. -Good to be back. 371 00:40:19,976 --> 00:40:23,021 -I'll believe you, sir. -No, really it is. 372 00:40:26,316 --> 00:40:27,651 Hello. 373 00:40:28,235 --> 00:40:31,363 Morning. You're to go right in. 374 00:40:43,375 --> 00:40:44,876 Lawrence. 375 00:40:46,670 --> 00:40:49,214 Or is it Major Lawrence? 376 00:40:49,881 --> 00:40:51,258 Sir. 377 00:40:57,055 --> 00:40:58,890 Well, general, I will leave you. 378 00:40:59,182 --> 00:41:02,060 Major Lawrence doubtless has reports to make... 379 00:41:02,352 --> 00:41:06,147 ...about my people and their weakness... 380 00:41:06,398 --> 00:41:11,194 ...and the need to keep them weak in the British interest. 381 00:41:13,697 --> 00:41:17,242 And the French interest too. We must not forget the French. 382 00:41:17,409 --> 00:41:19,452 I told you, sir, no such treaty exists. 383 00:41:19,744 --> 00:41:24,207 Yes, general, you have lied most bravely, but not convincingly. 384 00:41:24,416 --> 00:41:26,418 I know this treaty does exist. 385 00:41:26,668 --> 00:41:28,587 Treaty, sir? 386 00:41:30,755 --> 00:41:32,757 He does it better than you, general. 387 00:41:33,049 --> 00:41:36,303 But then, of course, he is almost an Arab. 388 00:41:50,483 --> 00:41:52,110 You really don't know? 389 00:41:54,446 --> 00:41:56,448 Then what the devil's this? 390 00:41:57,449 --> 00:42:01,328 It's my request for release from Arabia, sir. 391 00:42:01,578 --> 00:42:02,954 For what reason? 392 00:42:03,121 --> 00:42:05,457 You sure you haven't heard of the Sykes-Picot Treaty? 393 00:42:05,624 --> 00:42:07,000 No. 394 00:42:07,792 --> 00:42:10,962 -I can guess. -Don't guess. Tell him. 395 00:42:12,756 --> 00:42:14,132 Well, now.... 396 00:42:14,591 --> 00:42:17,636 Mr. Sykes is an English civil servant. 397 00:42:17,844 --> 00:42:20,972 Monsieur Picot is a French civil servant. 398 00:42:21,139 --> 00:42:25,352 Mr. Sykes and Monsieur Picot met, and they agreed that after the war... 399 00:42:25,644 --> 00:42:28,980 ...France and England should share the Turkish Empire. 400 00:42:29,272 --> 00:42:30,982 Including Arabia. 401 00:42:31,274 --> 00:42:35,320 They signed an agreement, not a treaty, sir. 402 00:42:35,528 --> 00:42:38,657 An agreement to that effect. 403 00:42:39,324 --> 00:42:42,869 There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians. 404 00:42:43,161 --> 00:42:45,872 And let's have no displays of indignation. 405 00:42:46,164 --> 00:42:49,292 You may not have known, but you certainly had suspicions. 406 00:42:49,793 --> 00:42:53,129 If we've told lies, you've told half-lies. 407 00:42:53,338 --> 00:42:57,801 And a man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. 408 00:42:58,009 --> 00:43:02,764 But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it. 409 00:43:03,348 --> 00:43:06,643 The truth is I'm an ordinary man. 410 00:43:07,143 --> 00:43:09,521 You might have told me that, Dryden. 411 00:43:11,022 --> 00:43:13,024 And I want an ordinary job, sir. 412 00:43:13,275 --> 00:43:15,569 That's my reason for resigning. 413 00:43:16,861 --> 00:43:18,530 It's personal. 414 00:43:18,697 --> 00:43:20,907 -Personal? -Yes, sir. 415 00:43:21,199 --> 00:43:24,286 Personal? You're a serving officer in the field. 416 00:43:24,536 --> 00:43:27,872 And as it happens, a damned important one. Are you mad? 417 00:43:28,164 --> 00:43:31,376 No, and if you don't mind, I'd rather not go mad. 418 00:43:31,585 --> 00:43:33,670 That's my reason too. 419 00:43:33,837 --> 00:43:38,883 Look, I'm making my big push on Damascus the 16th of next month... 420 00:43:39,050 --> 00:43:41,052 ...and you are part of it. 421 00:43:41,553 --> 00:43:45,223 Can you understand that? You're an important part of the big push! 422 00:43:45,432 --> 00:43:49,352 I don't want to be part of your big push! 423 00:43:50,061 --> 00:43:52,105 What about your Arab friends? 424 00:43:52,355 --> 00:43:56,192 I have no Arab friends! I don't want Arab friends! 425 00:43:56,401 --> 00:43:58,570 What in hell do you want, Lawrence? 426 00:43:58,820 --> 00:44:03,909 I've told you, I just want my ration of common humanity. 427 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,078 -Lawrence. -Yes? 428 00:44:09,831 --> 00:44:12,584 Nothing. Sorry I interrupted, sir. 429 00:44:12,834 --> 00:44:14,920 That's all right. Thank you, Mr. Dryden. 430 00:44:15,211 --> 00:44:16,922 Thank you, sir. 431 00:44:17,964 --> 00:44:20,216 Why don't we...? 432 00:44:22,761 --> 00:44:24,596 There's blood on your back. 433 00:44:25,889 --> 00:44:28,975 -Do you want a doctor? -No. 434 00:44:30,143 --> 00:44:32,354 Tell me what happened. 435 00:44:37,275 --> 00:44:39,444 Say, what goes on in there? 436 00:44:40,237 --> 00:44:42,113 -Nothing. -Oh, come on! 437 00:44:42,364 --> 00:44:45,784 -No, really. Nothing at all. -Is the man in trouble? 438 00:44:45,992 --> 00:44:49,955 I expect so. We all have troubles. Life's a vale of troubles. 439 00:44:50,247 --> 00:44:54,125 Let me know if the man's in trouble. I've got a claim in that man. 440 00:44:54,376 --> 00:44:57,796 -What claim? -I've made that boy a hero. 441 00:44:58,004 --> 00:45:00,757 When the war's over, he can be anything he wants. 442 00:45:00,966 --> 00:45:05,303 Yes. Well, at the moment he wants to be somebody else. 443 00:45:05,804 --> 00:45:08,640 Will you kindly allow me to pass? 444 00:45:09,182 --> 00:45:11,643 Walk away, Dryden, walk away. 445 00:45:11,935 --> 00:45:14,688 Always walking away, aren't you? 446 00:45:14,980 --> 00:45:16,481 Well, I'll tell you. 447 00:45:16,690 --> 00:45:19,651 It's a clash of temperament that's going on in there. 448 00:45:19,901 --> 00:45:22,821 Inevitably, one of them's half-mad... 449 00:45:23,029 --> 00:45:25,824 ...and the other, wholly unscrupulous. 450 00:45:26,658 --> 00:45:29,661 I believe your name will be a household word... 451 00:45:30,161 --> 00:45:33,832 ...when you'd have to go to the war museum to find who Allenby was. 452 00:45:34,708 --> 00:45:37,627 You're the most extraordinary man I ever met. 453 00:45:38,211 --> 00:45:39,713 Leave me alone. 454 00:45:40,005 --> 00:45:42,507 -Leave me alone. -That's a feeble thing to say. 455 00:45:42,716 --> 00:45:45,343 -I know I'm not ordinary. -That's not what I'm saying. 456 00:45:45,552 --> 00:45:48,346 All right, I'm extraordinary. 457 00:45:50,348 --> 00:45:51,433 What of it? 458 00:45:51,808 --> 00:45:54,519 Not many people have a destiny, Lawrence. 459 00:45:54,686 --> 00:45:57,856 It's a terrible thing for a man to flunk it if he has. 460 00:45:58,023 --> 00:46:00,191 Are you speaking from experience? 461 00:46:00,483 --> 00:46:01,860 No. 462 00:46:02,027 --> 00:46:03,862 You're guessing, then. 463 00:46:05,030 --> 00:46:06,364 Suppose you're wrong. 464 00:46:06,656 --> 00:46:09,701 Why suppose that? We both know I'm right. 465 00:46:10,535 --> 00:46:13,496 -Yes. I said, yes. -After all-- 466 00:46:16,041 --> 00:46:18,084 -The 16th? -Can you do it? 467 00:46:18,251 --> 00:46:20,378 I'll give you a lot of money. 468 00:46:20,670 --> 00:46:23,506 -Artillery? -I can't. 469 00:46:24,716 --> 00:46:27,677 They won't be coming for money, not the best of them. 470 00:46:27,969 --> 00:46:30,180 They'll be coming for Damascus. 471 00:46:31,222 --> 00:46:33,266 Which I'm going to give them. 472 00:46:34,017 --> 00:46:35,769 That's all I want. 473 00:46:36,853 --> 00:46:39,731 All you want is someone holding down the Turkish Right. 474 00:46:39,981 --> 00:46:44,236 But I'm going to give them Damascus. We'll get there before you do. 475 00:46:44,527 --> 00:46:47,697 And when we've got it, we'll keep it. 476 00:46:47,906 --> 00:46:50,283 Tell the politicians to burn their paper now. 477 00:46:50,533 --> 00:46:51,868 Fair enough. 478 00:46:52,369 --> 00:46:55,247 Fair? What's fair got to do with it? 479 00:46:55,997 --> 00:46:57,916 It's going to happen. 480 00:46:58,583 --> 00:47:00,710 I shall want quite a lot of money. 481 00:47:01,419 --> 00:47:03,088 All there is. 482 00:47:03,588 --> 00:47:05,215 Not that much. 483 00:47:08,510 --> 00:47:11,263 The best of them won't come for money. 484 00:47:13,139 --> 00:47:14,557 They'll come for me. 485 00:47:33,034 --> 00:47:34,286 No pictures! 486 00:47:34,578 --> 00:47:36,913 It's not for you, it's for Major Lawrence. 487 00:47:37,122 --> 00:47:41,293 He doesn't mind having his picture taken. He doesn't mind at all. 488 00:47:41,543 --> 00:47:43,795 Well, there's only one Lawrence. 489 00:47:48,258 --> 00:47:50,844 Have you met Major Lawrence since he's come back? 490 00:47:51,136 --> 00:47:52,429 Yes. 491 00:47:52,596 --> 00:47:54,973 -Changed, hasn't he? -No. 492 00:47:55,140 --> 00:47:58,059 Oh, I'd say he had. Different man, I'd say. 493 00:48:02,814 --> 00:48:06,484 What did that Turkish general do to him in Deraa? 494 00:48:07,193 --> 00:48:11,990 He was the same man after Deraa. The same man, humbled. 495 00:48:13,658 --> 00:48:16,202 What did the English general do to him in Jerusalem? 496 00:48:16,494 --> 00:48:18,163 Search me. Ask Lawrence. 497 00:48:18,371 --> 00:48:20,332 -I did. -What did he say? 498 00:48:20,582 --> 00:48:22,167 He laughed. 499 00:48:22,667 --> 00:48:25,295 He told me to gather the Harith here. 500 00:48:25,837 --> 00:48:27,380 He offered me money. 501 00:48:27,672 --> 00:48:29,215 Did you take it? 502 00:48:30,008 --> 00:48:32,636 No. But many did. 503 00:49:10,382 --> 00:49:13,426 -What is this? -This is my bodyguard. 504 00:49:14,135 --> 00:49:16,763 There is not a man without a price on his head. 505 00:49:17,055 --> 00:49:20,684 -There's a price on my head too. -But these are murderers. 506 00:49:20,892 --> 00:49:22,894 The sheiks will hang these men. 507 00:49:23,144 --> 00:49:24,896 These men are mine. 508 00:49:25,397 --> 00:49:29,734 Lawrence, these things know nothing of the Arab revolt. 509 00:49:30,068 --> 00:49:33,530 -You, Ghitan of Aleppo. -Sherif? 510 00:49:33,738 --> 00:49:36,741 -Where do we ride? -Damascus, sherif. 511 00:49:36,950 --> 00:49:38,868 Aye, but for what? 512 00:49:39,077 --> 00:49:41,246 Sherif, for Lawrence. 513 00:49:44,374 --> 00:49:47,711 -You have bought these things. -I bought half the men here, Ali. 514 00:49:47,919 --> 00:49:50,714 That is different. These are not ordinary men. 515 00:49:50,922 --> 00:49:53,925 I don't want ordinary men. Hut! 516 00:49:57,929 --> 00:49:59,764 Damascus! 517 00:49:59,973 --> 00:50:02,100 Damascus! Damascus! 518 00:50:02,309 --> 00:50:05,395 Damascus! Damascus! 519 00:50:39,262 --> 00:50:42,807 Very well, gentlemen. The cavalry's gone through Mazril and Deraa. 520 00:50:43,099 --> 00:50:46,728 Very good, by the way. Very good indeed. Now your turn. 521 00:50:46,937 --> 00:50:50,607 If the enemy's retreating in any order, which we'll assume-- 522 00:50:50,774 --> 00:50:51,816 Certainly. 523 00:50:51,983 --> 00:50:53,735 He can't be far from Mallud... 524 00:50:54,361 --> 00:50:58,657 ...in which case I can have him within range by 0900 hours tomorrow. 525 00:50:58,949 --> 00:51:00,951 Splendid. Philip. 526 00:51:01,326 --> 00:51:03,995 These are the last infantry supports going up now. 527 00:51:04,287 --> 00:51:07,832 But Mallud, we could have the fusiliers there by Wednesday. 528 00:51:08,500 --> 00:51:11,962 That'll do for now. The guns are what matter. 529 00:51:12,128 --> 00:51:13,380 Any questions? 530 00:51:13,838 --> 00:51:17,968 This Arab army on the right, sir, what's it consist of? 531 00:51:18,468 --> 00:51:20,679 Irregular cavalry, sir. About 2000. 532 00:51:20,845 --> 00:51:22,764 Where are they now? 533 00:51:23,473 --> 00:51:28,353 -Can only know by being with them. -Then get with them. I want to know. 534 00:51:28,687 --> 00:51:30,981 Pound them, Charley. 535 00:51:31,565 --> 00:51:32,983 Pound them. 536 00:51:43,535 --> 00:51:46,371 God help the men who lie under that. 537 00:51:46,580 --> 00:51:48,206 They're Turks. 538 00:51:48,415 --> 00:51:50,083 God help them. 539 00:52:32,834 --> 00:52:36,588 Well, he's got the bit between his teeth all right. 540 00:52:36,838 --> 00:52:38,131 Cocky? 541 00:52:38,340 --> 00:52:40,091 More than cocky, sir. 542 00:52:40,383 --> 00:52:43,720 He's got the bit between his teeth all right. 543 00:52:43,929 --> 00:52:47,432 I tell you, sir, I think he'll get to Damascus before we do. 544 00:52:48,099 --> 00:52:49,935 -Unless.... -Unless? 545 00:52:50,101 --> 00:52:53,980 Well, there's a Turkish column in front of him, out of Mazril. 546 00:52:54,272 --> 00:52:57,234 -What do the Turks have in Mazril? -A brigade, sir. 547 00:53:00,237 --> 00:53:02,447 I wonder where they are now. 548 00:54:44,507 --> 00:54:45,675 No prisoners. 549 00:54:49,179 --> 00:54:51,264 Damascus, Lawrence. 550 00:55:01,191 --> 00:55:04,027 Lawrence, not this. 551 00:55:04,736 --> 00:55:08,740 Go round. Damascus, Lawrence, Damascus. 552 00:55:09,491 --> 00:55:11,076 No prisoners. 553 00:55:21,211 --> 00:55:22,796 This was Talaal's village. 554 00:55:27,050 --> 00:55:29,052 Talaal! 555 00:55:39,062 --> 00:55:40,272 Talaal! 556 00:55:49,322 --> 00:55:51,324 No prisoners! 557 00:55:51,783 --> 00:55:52,909 No prisoners! 558 00:56:04,796 --> 00:56:06,089 God. 559 00:56:09,843 --> 00:56:11,177 God. 560 00:56:13,096 --> 00:56:14,472 God! 561 00:58:31,776 --> 00:58:34,946 Enough. Enough! Make them stop! 562 01:00:12,335 --> 01:00:13,545 Major! 563 01:00:14,212 --> 01:00:15,880 Major Lawrence! 564 01:00:21,553 --> 01:00:23,179 Jesus wept. 565 01:00:38,737 --> 01:00:40,030 Jesus wept. 566 01:00:41,907 --> 01:00:43,950 Does it surprise you, Mr. Bentley? 567 01:00:44,576 --> 01:00:47,370 Surely you know the Arabs are a barbarous people. 568 01:00:47,579 --> 01:00:49,414 Barbarous and cruel. 569 01:00:50,248 --> 01:00:52,125 Who but they? 570 01:00:52,542 --> 01:00:53,877 Who but they? 571 01:00:56,212 --> 01:00:58,590 Oh, you rotten man. 572 01:00:59,633 --> 01:01:04,054 Here, let me take your rotten bloody picture. 573 01:01:06,139 --> 01:01:08,266 For the rotten bloody newspapers. 574 01:01:34,751 --> 01:01:38,255 These were cut last night, Lawrence, in Damascus. 575 01:01:38,672 --> 01:01:40,382 Damascus! 576 01:01:40,590 --> 01:01:42,467 Take them to Sherif Ali. 577 01:01:42,676 --> 01:01:44,094 Tell him. 578 01:01:45,095 --> 01:01:46,805 Remind him. 579 01:01:47,639 --> 01:01:50,767 -Is Allenby in Damascus? -Near. 580 01:01:51,601 --> 01:01:53,895 Tell Sherif Ali that. 581 01:01:55,146 --> 01:01:56,982 They are not ripe. 582 01:02:02,946 --> 01:02:04,990 General salute! 583 01:02:05,156 --> 01:02:09,869 Present arms! 584 01:02:21,798 --> 01:02:23,675 Port arms! 585 01:02:26,469 --> 01:02:28,346 Lawrence is behind it, sir. 586 01:02:28,555 --> 01:02:31,433 The whole town is plastered with the Arab flag. 587 01:02:37,731 --> 01:02:39,524 -When? -A day and a night, sir. 588 01:02:39,733 --> 01:02:41,651 They've been here a day and a night. 589 01:02:41,860 --> 01:02:44,362 They've occupied the town. They've done it. 590 01:02:44,654 --> 01:02:48,533 He's set up his own headquarters in the town hall. 591 01:02:49,451 --> 01:02:51,244 What else beside the town hall? 592 01:02:51,536 --> 01:02:54,372 Telephone exchange, post office, powerhouse... 593 01:02:54,664 --> 01:02:57,042 ...hospitals, fire station. Everything, sir. 594 01:02:57,250 --> 01:03:00,211 They call themselves the Arab National Council... 595 01:03:00,378 --> 01:03:02,047 ...and they're in the town hall. 596 01:03:02,339 --> 01:03:05,216 Well, they're your pigeon, Harry. 597 01:03:06,885 --> 01:03:08,386 What should we do about it? 598 01:03:08,595 --> 01:03:11,014 Get them out of it, sir, quick time. 599 01:03:11,890 --> 01:03:13,725 How about that, Dryden? 600 01:03:15,518 --> 01:03:18,230 Not unless you want a full-scale rising. 601 01:03:19,022 --> 01:03:22,067 -What, then? -When will Feisal be in Damascus? 602 01:03:22,234 --> 01:03:24,277 By special train in two days' time. 603 01:03:24,569 --> 01:03:25,862 Two days. 604 01:03:26,029 --> 01:03:29,407 Two days is what you asked for. I can't keep him out any longer. 605 01:03:29,699 --> 01:03:31,743 -Isn't it enough? -Yes. 606 01:03:31,910 --> 01:03:35,372 -Ample, I should think. -We can't just do nothing. 607 01:03:35,580 --> 01:03:39,251 Why not? It's usually best. Get us something to drink, Tracey. 608 01:03:39,501 --> 01:03:43,755 And Tracey, all troops to remain quartered until further orders. 609 01:03:44,130 --> 01:03:45,757 Does that apply to technical units? 610 01:03:46,049 --> 01:03:48,134 Technical units particularly. 611 01:03:48,426 --> 01:03:49,761 Yes, sir. 612 01:03:50,303 --> 01:03:51,763 Medicals too, sir? 613 01:03:52,013 --> 01:03:54,224 I'm afraid so, Harry. 614 01:03:54,557 --> 01:03:56,268 Medicals too. 615 01:04:36,641 --> 01:04:38,184 We here... 616 01:04:38,435 --> 01:04:41,313 ...are neither Harith nor Howeitat... 617 01:04:41,479 --> 01:04:44,649 ...nor any other tribe, but Arabs... 618 01:04:44,983 --> 01:04:48,445 ...of the Arab Council, acting for Prince Feisal. 619 01:04:48,653 --> 01:04:50,697 He insulted me. 620 01:04:51,823 --> 01:04:55,952 Sherif Ali said that the telephones are in the care of the Howeitat... 621 01:04:56,161 --> 01:04:58,997 ...and they have ceased to work. And this is true. 622 01:04:59,497 --> 01:05:03,209 They will not work because they are given no electricity. 623 01:05:03,460 --> 01:05:07,005 The electricity is in the care of the Harith. 624 01:05:09,466 --> 01:05:11,801 If you answer, there will be bloodshed. 625 01:05:12,677 --> 01:05:16,181 You speak to me of bloodshed? 626 01:05:18,892 --> 01:05:22,854 I ask pardon of Auda Abu Tayi. 627 01:05:23,104 --> 01:05:24,648 Humbly? 628 01:05:24,814 --> 01:05:26,191 Humbly, Harith? 629 01:05:26,483 --> 01:05:28,485 Yes, humbly. 630 01:05:28,860 --> 01:05:30,987 This is a new trick. 631 01:05:31,988 --> 01:05:33,657 Why is there no electricity? 632 01:05:34,616 --> 01:05:37,369 I have been to that electrical house, Lawrence. 633 01:05:37,619 --> 01:05:40,497 There are three large machines. 634 01:05:40,705 --> 01:05:43,041 He means generators! 635 01:05:43,541 --> 01:05:44,709 So. 636 01:05:45,168 --> 01:05:46,878 One of them is burning. 637 01:05:47,128 --> 01:05:50,215 They are of an incredible size, but helpless. 638 01:05:50,548 --> 01:05:53,260 It is so of all machines. 639 01:05:53,510 --> 01:05:57,514 Let them burn. What need of telephones? 640 01:06:00,183 --> 01:06:03,353 -The need is absolute. -Then we need English engineers. 641 01:06:03,562 --> 01:06:07,232 No. Take English engineers and you take English government. 642 01:06:07,524 --> 01:06:08,733 Take-- 643 01:06:12,862 --> 01:06:14,072 Fire has broken out. 644 01:06:14,281 --> 01:06:15,865 -Where? -The Jinsibi district. 645 01:06:16,074 --> 01:06:18,952 -It is not a district that matters. -It will spread! 646 01:06:19,244 --> 01:06:20,912 Then use the fire brigade! 647 01:06:21,204 --> 01:06:24,082 We have tried, but there is no force in the water. 648 01:06:24,291 --> 01:06:25,792 Then you must carry it. 649 01:06:26,084 --> 01:06:30,422 -The Ruala do not carry water. -What else are they good for? 650 01:06:42,726 --> 01:06:46,271 We will hear petitions this afternoon. 651 01:06:49,107 --> 01:06:50,817 This afternoon! 652 01:07:14,591 --> 01:07:18,595 -I'll take this up after the war. -Surely we should do something, sir. 653 01:07:18,803 --> 01:07:22,766 -It's an old man's sport. -Are you an old man, sir? 654 01:07:22,974 --> 01:07:25,852 All I can say is, sir, it's a heavy responsibility. 655 01:07:27,312 --> 01:07:28,647 Sorry, sir. 656 01:07:30,857 --> 01:07:32,525 Maybe it's the bulb. 657 01:07:37,239 --> 01:07:38,365 No, sir. 658 01:07:38,823 --> 01:07:40,492 It's the power. 659 01:07:55,674 --> 01:07:57,050 They're leaving. 660 01:07:57,759 --> 01:07:59,469 That's it, then. 661 01:07:59,970 --> 01:08:02,055 Marvelous-looking beggars, aren't they? 662 01:08:23,285 --> 01:08:26,162 Leave it, Lawrence. Come with me. 663 01:08:26,413 --> 01:08:28,415 -Come where? -Back. 664 01:08:32,877 --> 01:08:35,088 I know your heart. 665 01:08:43,555 --> 01:08:45,181 What is it? 666 01:08:46,182 --> 01:08:47,851 Is it this? 667 01:08:50,562 --> 01:08:53,690 I tell you, this is nothing. 668 01:09:06,870 --> 01:09:08,538 Is it the blood? 669 01:09:09,331 --> 01:09:12,417 The desert has dried up more blood than you could think of. 670 01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:18,340 I pray that I may never see the desert again. 671 01:09:19,424 --> 01:09:20,717 Hear me, God. 672 01:09:22,427 --> 01:09:26,264 You will come. There is only the desert for you. 673 01:09:43,114 --> 01:09:44,407 What about you? 674 01:09:45,408 --> 01:09:48,995 No, I shall stay here and learn politics. 675 01:09:51,498 --> 01:09:52,916 A very low occupation. 676 01:09:53,416 --> 01:09:56,461 I had not thought of it when I met you. 677 01:10:05,428 --> 01:10:08,306 You have tried very hard to give us Damascus. 678 01:10:08,515 --> 01:10:10,433 It's what I came for. 679 01:10:13,937 --> 01:10:15,188 And then... 680 01:10:17,607 --> 01:10:18,984 ...it would be something. 681 01:10:19,192 --> 01:10:20,443 Yes. 682 01:10:21,111 --> 01:10:22,320 Much. 683 01:10:41,339 --> 01:10:43,800 -He is your friend? -Take your hand away. 684 01:10:44,009 --> 01:10:45,302 -You love him. -I fear him. 685 01:10:45,510 --> 01:10:47,345 Then why do you weep? 686 01:10:47,679 --> 01:10:49,848 If I fear him, who love him... 687 01:10:50,015 --> 01:10:52,976 ...how must he fear himself, who hates himself? 688 01:10:53,351 --> 01:10:56,479 Take your hand away, Howeitat! 689 01:10:58,857 --> 01:11:02,193 So you are not yet entirely politician. 690 01:11:02,360 --> 01:11:03,445 Not yet. 691 01:11:03,695 --> 01:11:08,033 Well, these are new tricks, and I am an old dog. 692 01:11:08,575 --> 01:11:10,493 And Allah be thanked. 693 01:11:10,994 --> 01:11:12,370 I'll tell thee what... 694 01:11:12,662 --> 01:11:15,999 ...being an Arab will be thornier than you suppose, Harith. 695 01:11:37,479 --> 01:11:40,774 In all my years, I've never seen anything like it. 696 01:11:41,066 --> 01:11:43,902 It comes within the jurisdiction of the Arab Council. 697 01:11:44,110 --> 01:11:48,490 Under the circumstances, I think I must take over. Immediately. 698 01:11:48,740 --> 01:11:51,743 Under any circumstances at all, you must obey your orders. 699 01:11:52,035 --> 01:11:53,578 No, sir, I will not. 700 01:11:54,537 --> 01:11:56,122 Control yourself. 701 01:11:56,623 --> 01:11:59,751 Now, go over to the town hall and see what they say. 702 01:12:00,710 --> 01:12:03,004 We did what we could in the civic hospitals. 703 01:12:03,213 --> 01:12:06,049 But you forgot the Turkish Military Hospital. 704 01:12:06,424 --> 01:12:10,887 It has 600 beds. There are about 2000 Turkish wounded in it. 705 01:12:11,554 --> 01:12:16,142 All of whom are the responsibility of your precious Arab Council. 706 01:12:22,899 --> 01:12:24,317 What's it like? 707 01:13:41,186 --> 01:13:43,230 This is outrageous! 708 01:13:44,356 --> 01:13:46,233 Outrageous! 709 01:13:49,486 --> 01:13:51,196 Outrageous! 710 01:13:52,322 --> 01:13:54,532 You filthy little wog! 711 01:14:05,043 --> 01:14:09,130 My friend Lawrence, if I may call him that. 712 01:14:09,381 --> 01:14:11,841 "My friend Lawrence." 713 01:14:12,050 --> 01:14:16,680 How many men will claim the right to use that phrase? How proudly. 714 01:14:16,888 --> 01:14:19,557 He longs for the greenness of his native land. 715 01:14:19,766 --> 01:14:24,896 He pines for the Gothic cottages of Surrey, is it not? 716 01:14:25,146 --> 01:14:28,733 Already in imagination, he catches trout... 717 01:14:29,025 --> 01:14:32,529 ...and all the activities of the English gentleman. 718 01:14:32,737 --> 01:14:36,241 That's me you're describing, sir, not Colonel Lawrence. 719 01:14:37,158 --> 01:14:39,369 You're promoted colonel. 720 01:14:39,578 --> 01:14:42,038 Yes. What for? 721 01:14:42,247 --> 01:14:45,417 Take the honor, colonel. Be a little kind. 722 01:14:45,667 --> 01:14:49,754 As a colonel, you'll have a cabin to yourself on the boat home. 723 01:14:50,380 --> 01:14:52,674 Then, thank you. 724 01:14:56,886 --> 01:14:58,096 Well, then... 725 01:14:58,722 --> 01:14:59,764 ...Godspeed. 726 01:15:00,265 --> 01:15:04,185 There's nothing further here for a warrior. 727 01:15:04,436 --> 01:15:08,565 We drive bargains. Old men's work. 728 01:15:08,773 --> 01:15:11,109 Young men make wars, and the virtues of war... 729 01:15:11,276 --> 01:15:13,194 ...are the virtues of young men. 730 01:15:13,445 --> 01:15:16,907 Courage and hope for the future. 731 01:15:17,115 --> 01:15:19,784 Then old men make the peace. 732 01:15:20,911 --> 01:15:23,788 And the vices of peace are the vices of old men. 733 01:15:23,997 --> 01:15:26,458 Mistrust and caution. 734 01:15:27,417 --> 01:15:29,252 It must be so. 735 01:15:45,644 --> 01:15:50,273 What I owe you is beyond evaluation. 736 01:15:59,991 --> 01:16:03,662 The powerhouse, the telephone exchange, these I concede. 737 01:16:03,954 --> 01:16:05,664 The pumping plant I must retain. 738 01:16:05,872 --> 01:16:08,458 If you retain it, there will be no water. 739 01:16:08,667 --> 01:16:12,379 -I shall be glad of assistance. -Then you must bring down your flag. 740 01:16:12,671 --> 01:16:16,508 I shall not, and if your men attempt it, my men will resist it. 741 01:16:16,800 --> 01:16:18,468 -Have you men? -Enough for that. 742 01:16:18,677 --> 01:16:21,054 It's a thing that makes an ugly incident. 743 01:16:21,388 --> 01:16:23,265 I'm sure your government... 744 01:16:23,515 --> 01:16:27,352 ...does not wish to appear at the peace conference as an aggressor. 745 01:16:29,646 --> 01:16:31,147 I say! 746 01:16:32,524 --> 01:16:34,484 It's Lawrence, isn't it? 747 01:16:36,820 --> 01:16:39,030 May I shake your hand, sir? 748 01:16:40,198 --> 01:16:42,826 Just want to be able to say I'd done it, sir. 749 01:16:46,413 --> 01:16:48,665 Haven't we met before? 750 01:16:48,873 --> 01:16:50,500 Don't think so, sir. 751 01:16:50,709 --> 01:16:53,420 No, no, sir, I should remember that. 752 01:16:58,675 --> 01:17:02,846 It is widely known the Arab Council took power in my name. 753 01:17:03,054 --> 01:17:05,056 They have no power. It's illusory. 754 01:17:05,307 --> 01:17:07,726 Illusions can be very powerful. 755 01:17:08,101 --> 01:17:09,728 Particularly... 756 01:17:10,604 --> 01:17:13,231 ...when they take this form. 757 01:17:15,400 --> 01:17:18,403 The world is delighted at the picture of Damascus... 758 01:17:18,612 --> 01:17:20,572 ...liberated by the Arab army. 759 01:17:21,114 --> 01:17:24,200 Led, may I remind you, by a British-serving officer. 760 01:17:24,743 --> 01:17:29,748 Ah, yes. But then Lawrence is a sword with two edges. 761 01:17:30,040 --> 01:17:33,084 We are equally glad to be rid of him, are we not? 762 01:17:36,713 --> 01:17:38,924 I thought I was a hard man, sir. 763 01:17:39,758 --> 01:17:42,052 You are merely a general. 764 01:17:44,596 --> 01:17:46,097 I must be a king. 765 01:17:49,100 --> 01:17:50,977 Excuse me, sir. 766 01:18:05,617 --> 01:18:06,910 Well? 767 01:18:07,786 --> 01:18:09,162 Well... 768 01:18:09,621 --> 01:18:12,499 ...it seems we're to have a British waterworks... 769 01:18:12,749 --> 01:18:14,960 ...with an Arab flag on it. 770 01:18:15,168 --> 01:18:17,128 Do you think it was worth it? 771 01:18:17,295 --> 01:18:19,965 Not my business. Thank God I'm a soldier. 772 01:18:20,298 --> 01:18:21,466 Yes, sir. 773 01:18:21,758 --> 01:18:23,385 So you keep saying. 774 01:18:23,593 --> 01:18:25,178 You, I suspect... 775 01:18:25,679 --> 01:18:29,599 ...are chief architect of this compromise. 776 01:18:30,016 --> 01:18:33,144 -What do you think? -Me, Your Highness? 777 01:18:33,812 --> 01:18:38,108 On the whole, I wish I'd stayed in Tunbridge Wells. 778 01:19:16,146 --> 01:19:19,190 Well, sir. Going home. 779 01:19:21,526 --> 01:19:23,194 Home, sir.