All language subtitles for Northwest Passage-1940-1

Stow it forward, son.

All right, father.

Make it fast, my boy.

Yes, father.

Reel her through
the back, alan.

Yes, father.

Must be 5:00, father.

There's the boston stage.

Cap huff, where
you going?

Can't stop now.

I'm on an errand
of mercy.

When did you
start tending bar?

Why, langdon!

Hello, son.

The day
you left for harvard,

i started my education
at studely's tavern.

Hunk marriner's
in sore need of this.

Where is hunk?

On public exhibition.

Bring that tankard here

and let me hide
my face in it in shame.

Well, if it ain't
langdon towne,

my educated friend.

Why, you old possum.

Go over there
and shake hands with me.

I'm glad to see you.

Let me give him that.

Sure this is good
for him?

This ain't
the silly season.

You give it to him.

I'd as soon try
to fill a sieve.

What put him in here
this time?

Clagett
the king's attorney.

Clagett? Did you bite him
or just kick him?

No. I'm in
for public speaking.

What brought you home
in time for deer season?

You might call it
public speaking.

Pictures speak
louder than words.

The puritan
or the pie?

The pie... harvard pie.

Who's the puritan?

The president of harvard.

Now the president can't
stand the smell of you.

He asked me to go
far, far away.

You ought to know
better than that.

Whiskers on a skunk
grow up, not down.

Well, i've never been on
intimate terms with a skunk.

Does your father know
about this, langdon?

No, and i�s not
going to be easy

to tell him i've been
sacked from harvard.

Drop over to the tavern
afterwards.

I'll be there, too.

They lock me up
about sundown.

I usually break out
around 8:00.

Here, here.
Mind your step.

Mind my step?

Clage�s a tyrant
and thief!

I wouldn't be here

if he hadn't tried
to tax my old father

of half
his fish catch!

Save it, hunk.

The time will come.

A hundred years
the townes

have
rigged-out ships.

They had hoped to bring into
port a professional man...

a lawyer,
a clergyman.

And now their
first great venture

is dashed on the rocks
of youthful folly.

I ask your forgiveness for
disappointing you and mother.

I ask my brothers
to forgive me

for throwing away
my chance.

Aw, langdon.

I want my sons to take up
for their rights,

but i hate
for my boy

to go around with his
heart on his sleeve.

Yes, mother?

I'm sorry langdon's
lost his chance

to be a clergyman.

He's always shown
his feelings.

Clergymen show their
feelings on all occasions.

Well, tha�s a clergyman's privilege.

Artists should show
their feelings, too.

And if he's going
to be a painter,

he's got
to feel about things.

Yes. If he felt
that way,

he felt that way.

We'll have to make the
best of our disappointments.

Oh, father!

Son, what was
in that pie?

I never
got that far, sir.

May langdon borrow
a sunday shirt

to call on elizabeth
tonight?

Of course,
but remember...

keep our disappointments
within the family.

I don't want langdon to bow
his head to reverend browne.

The townes have
been rigging ships

just as long
as the brownes

have been sending
sinners to...

hades.

I declare!

Langdon.

Elizabeth.

I can't believe it.

What can't you
believe?

You're more beautiful
than ever.

Oh, no.

Langdon, are those
the manners

they teach you
at harvard?

I thought of you
all the time,

made a thousand sketches

of the way you'd look
when i saw you again.

I'm sure you never
gave me a thought

with all those lovely ladies in boston.

I made one good sketch.

You're looking at me
over your shoulder.

Every time i see it,

my heart
comes into my throat.

But...

we don't have to see
your father just yet,

do we?

That horrid
hunk marriner's

told everybody
in portsmouth.

Good evening,
mrs. Browne.

Good evening,
jane.

Hi, sam.

Reverend...

now that you have
willfully thrown aside

an education at harvard

and a career
in the ministry,

how do you propose to
support yourself in life?

I want to be
an artist,

an american artist...
a painter.

A painter?

Heaven forbid!

Painters, actors,
mountebanks...

drunkards rolling
in the gutter.

Not all artists
are like that.

Rubens and vel�squez
were great gentlemen.

Sir joshua reynolds
is the toast of london.

I mean no offense,
my boy,

when i say that you are not
exactly a velasquez or a rubens.

I can only say that if
you persist in this career,

then nothing
can save you.

And i am sure
my daughter

thinks as i do.

Don't you, elizabeth?

Father's usually
right, langdon.

Then i suppose
there's nothing

left for me
to say.

Langdon.

Let him think it over,
elizabeth.

He'll feel
differently, sir.

Depend on me.

Hey, cap.

One minute, jonathan.

Mr. Studely, you always
do well by your patronage.

Very well, indeed.

Some girl
came from london.

Oh, it isn't
elizabeth's fault.

I�s that pompous
old... parson.

I've learned not
to argue with him.

I can't afford to

if i expect to marry
one of his daughters.

If you're trying to drink
yourself out of lovesickness,

we've got some rum

that will burn the knots
out of a pine plank.

Bring it in.

I wouldn't
drink any more.

Why shouldn't i drink?

Browne said all painters
are drunkards.

The old hypocrite
wouldn't care

if he thought
they'd be rich.

Money and power...
tha�s all he cares about,

hobnobbing
with rich scoundrels

that put poor woodsmen
like hunk in jail.

Hunk got himself
in jail

for talking against
wiseman clagett.

It was hunk's own fault
for talking.

It was clage�s fault for
deserving to be talked against.

Oh, claptrap.

Claptrap?

Wiseman clage�s the biggest
thief in this province.

Shh. Not so loud.

Oh, i mustn't talk, or
i'll get put in jail?

I wouldn't
be surprised.

Clagett can steal 100,000 acres
of land from this province,

but nobody
must talk about it.

And he's hand-in-glove with that
indian agent, sir william johnson.

They let men like hunk
clear the land

and risk being scalped
by indians,

then take it away
from them.

Be quiet, langdon.

They'd steal the pennies
off a dead man's eyes,

but elizabeth's father
wouldn't care.

Well, gentlemen...

to what are we indebted for
this pleasure, mr. Clagett?

Mr. Livermore,

i find you
in dangerous company.

You may withdraw.

Langdon towne
is my guest.

If you're here to say
something to him,

say it to me also.

You wish
to defend libels

against his majesty's
representatives?

Certainly not.

Then you've
no business here.

I bid you
good evening.

Packer, open the door

and give mr. Livermore
any necessary assistance.

Get out!

Now, sir, do you wish
to make a statement?

Why should i make
any statement?

You've made yourself liable
to very dangerous charges.

You've slandered me,

libeled that good man
sir william johnson,

repeated shameful rumors,
lies, calumnies.

I'd never repeat calumnies
about innocent men.

Wha�s that you said?

I don't believe
they're lies.

Langdon, no.

He's dangerously
intoxicated,

a threat to the safety
of the community.

Take him aboard the
battleship in the harbor.

You can't
shanghai me!

I demand that word
be taken to my family.

Raving from
the effects of drink.

Raving.

Who's the one raving,
packer or clagett?

Take them both!

Langdon, you're
in bad company...

the lowest scoundrels
in portsmouth.

Why, you...

Out the window, langdon!

Take to the woods
and keep going.

Oh, your excellency!

They went that way!
That way!

� some talk
of alexander �

� and some of hercules �

� of hector
and lysander �

� and such great names
as these �

� but of all the worlds
great heroes �

� there's none
that can compare... �

see any redcoats?

No, but there's
a fella inside

in some
green outfit.

54's a lot of miles
without no rum.

Shall we risk it?

� and such great names
as these �

� but of all the worlds
great heroes �

� there's none
that can compare �

� to the toh-roh
toh-roh toh-roh-toh �

� to the british
grenadier �

here, you.

Wha�s the matter?

We ain't busted
no laws.

You can sing,
can't you?

We haven't
got time.

No? Why'd you
come in here?

Rum.

Where you headed for?

West.

Makes no difference
when a man gets west.

Help me get this indian
on his feet,

i'll buy you rum.

This indian
wants to sing.

We can't seem
to suit him,

so he's dissatisfied.

Whenever
he's dissatisfied,

he won't drink
anything but rum.

Unless we get him to drink
beer so he'll get sick,

he won't be fit to travel,
and he's got to travel.

We'll sing some beer
into him.

All right.
Give us the pitch.

� drink to me only �

� with thine eyes �

� and i will
pledge with mine �

� bom bom bom �

� or leave a kiss �

� within the cup �

� and i'll not ask
for wine �

� bom bom bom bom �

� the thirst
that from �

� the soul doth rise �

� doth ask
a drink divine �

� bom bom bom bom �

� but might i of �

� jove's nectar sup �

� i would not
change for thine �

� bom bom bom
bom bom �

you my sweet brudder.

Your sweet what?

Your his sweet brother.

Don't worry.
He won't kiss you.

These indians haven't
learned that yet.

He's climbing
a mountain now.

When he gets
to the top,

he'll fall off
the other side.

There he goes,
into the valley.

When he comes to,

he'll be sober enough
to travel.

Gentlemen, i'm obliged.

I need that indian.

What for?

Bring some hot water,

rum, sugar, and butter.

Tout suite.

I owe these gentlemen
something special and permanent.

Where'd you say
you're going?

I didn't say,

but we're going
to albany.

You're taking
a roundabout way.

Aren't you afraid of
getting lost in the woods?

Not with the maps
he makes.

You make maps?

You can go anyplace
with his maps.

I've always been
interested in maps.

Ever since i've been
a little boy, i...

"langdon towne.
Harvard college. "

Hmm. Quite an eye
for detail.

Ah. Thank you,
flint.

Cold rum is just
a temporary drink.

I�ll wear off
in a day or two,

but hot rum
will last you

as long
as a coonskin cap.

Wha�s, uh,
wha�s this map?

Oh, tha�s
the northwest passage.

What do you know about
the northwest passage?

All they know
at harvard.

Where'd you
hear about it?

Oh, tall tales,

trappers' stories.

Wha�s a harvard fella like
you aim to do in albany?

We aim to join dutch
traders and go west.

What for?

Well, paint indians.

Indians?

Paint indians?

As long as we got...
long as we're going,

i could paint them
as they really are.

Smart fella like you...
can make maps, drink rum.

I'm surprised
you're not in the army.

I'd be
more surprised if i was.

Well, you never
can tell nowadays

wha�ll
surprise a man next.

We've got enough sense
not to join the army.

We don't aim to dig ditches
and chop down trees

and get shot at
in a red coat

that stands out
like a house on fire.

Might as well
be back in jail.

Well, maybe
you're right.

Maybe what
you're saying

is just plain
common sense.

Anyway, i wouldn't
recommend the british.

Maybe those dutch
up in albany

might just suit you.

Here's to them.

Makes me want
to shoot a panther.

Two or three
drinks of this,

you won't have to
shoot the panther.

Just walk up to him,
kiss him once,

and put him in your bag, all limp.

What the heck
was that?

On your feet.

Come on,
on your feet.

John, take
that shirt off.

We're military.

Where are we?

Crown point.

Get over
with the scouts.

Kankaba sick indian.

Kankaba so, so sick.

Of course you're sick.

I've never
seen an indian

need a coat of paint
worse than you do.

Where are my maps?

Major rogers took care
of them for you.

Major rogers?

The indian fighter?

Say,

is he the fella that mixed
that panther juice?

He brought you here
with that indian scout.

That indian got drunk
and went over the hill.

If you let
one indian get away,

they'll all get away.

So major rogers went
after that indian hisself.

The smartest
indian alive

can't think half as much
like an indian

as major rogers can.

We're going to albany,
and i want those maps.

All right.

Come along, and we'll
get them for you.

Rogers thinks
we're drunk enough

to join those redcoats,
he's crazy.

You mean
them clay dolls?

No. Major rogers
ain't no redcoat.

Haven't you heard
of rogers' rangers?

They fight indians mostly,
don't they?

Indians? Hah!

They do everything
mostly.

Look over there.

Mcneil, where
do you think

major rogers
will take us?

One man's guess is as
good as another's.

Well, here we are.

Wait outside,
sergeant.

Yes, sir.

Good morning, gentlemen.

Anything more i can
do for you, command me.

You can return my maps
and sketchbook

and explain
why we're here.

I owed you both
a good turn.

I�s no good turn
i can make out.

Don't you know
we're fighting a war?

The woods
are full of indians

who'd enjoy
using your hair

to make their girls
look up to them.

I see you've left
a girl at home.

It wouldn't be right for you
to go home without your hair.

There are no hostile indians
between here and albany.

Well,
suppose there aren't.

I need a man
who can make maps.

I need him bad.

If you'd join
my rangers

and make a map for me
now and then,

i'd show you all the
indians you could paint.

Of course, my rangers
are a pretty rough lot,

maybe too rough
for an educated man.

He ain't that educated,

and we can take care
of ourselves.

Then you'll take
to my rangers

like a duck
to water.

They wear
fancy uniforms

and eat like
major generals.

Sometimes there's quite
a spell between meals,

but that only
whets your appetite.

Now and then they have
to kill an indian or two.

I want to paint
live indians.

All right. When you
see an indian,

you paint him alive as
long as you feel safe.

When he gets
too close,

let him have it

and then finish him
with a hatchet.

Well, tha�s just
plain common sense.

We're going out
tonight

and in whaleboats.

You won't even have
to walk to start with,

just a pleasure boat
ride on the lake.

You can come along
as mapmaker

in boat number one
with me.

How about it?

Good. We'll endeavor
to teach you things

that harvard college
overlooked.

Your orders, major.

I presume you've planned your movement.

We go up the lake far
as we can with the boats.

The enemy will be
watching the lake,

but we'll row by night
and hide by day.

When we leave the boats,
we'll take our chances.

If we move fast

we can do wha�s
got to be done.

Sir william johnson

thinks you ought
to wait until spring.

General amherst, they
expect me next spring.

Tha�s why i want
to move now.

As his majesty's superintendent
of indian affairs,

i speak
with some authority.

In my opinion,
you haven't a chance now.

General amherst,

speaking for my men
and for myself,

those red hellions
up there

have come down and hacked
and murdered us,

burned our homes,
stolen women,

brained babies,
scalped stragglers,

and roasted officers over
slow fires for five years.

If you were
in our place,

what would you do?

By jove, i'd go
after them.

Thank you, sir.

Well, then,
inspection.

I've made it appear
the usual thing

in case enemy spies
are watching the fort.

Prepare
for inspection!

Present your firearms!

Your scouts seem
anxious enough

to hit the trail.

Where did these mohawks
come from, sir?

Sir william's
offered them as scouts.

Are they scouting for me
or for sir william?

Do you imply my mohawks aren't loyal?

They're loyal to you,

and you and i
have never agreed

upon the best way
to deal with indians.

I�s crown policy.
Take them along.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Ritchie, my compliments
to the command.

Dismissed.

Dismiss the battalion.

Colors,
right wheel!

Shoulder
your firearms!

To the right,
face!

Forward harch!

Number three company,

to the left, face!

My compliments
to your men, major.

Dismissed.

I shall be sorry
to lose them.

We'll be back
in october.

When do you start?

When the last glow
of the sun

has left
the western sky.

Rangers.

Number six boat.

Number four boat.

Number six.

Number seven.

Come on,
number seven.

Where we going?

Think the major tells
before starting out?

He ain't a fool.

We're in
number one boat.

There it is.
Get in.

Take your places, men.

Number 13
filled and ready.

Number 16
filled and ready.

Number 14
filled and ready.

Number 12
filled and ready.

Number 10
filled and ready.

Number one
filled and ready.

Anybody dead
in number 17?

Maybe they
aren't going.

Number 17
filled and ready.

All right.
Send them off.

Push off, men.

Up oars, men.

Buttonmould bay.

Turn in here.

Captain, you'll post
sentries on the ridge.

Four to watch

and two to sleep
by turn.

No fires, no cooking,
no smoking.

Have the men
get some sleep.

We won't move
till dark.

Does anyone know
where we're going?

Hard to say, son.

Suogataw.

Where's that?

I�s as good a name
for nowheres as any.

Webster got a letter
yesterday.

His wife died.

He's not feeling
very good.

Oh, tha�s too bad.

Yes, i suppose a man does
get attached to a woman

after he's lived with her
a few years.

Where'd you come from?

Portsmouth.

I�s funny i never
seen you before.

I was born
in portsmouth.

I been away
to harvard college.

Harvard?

No wonder you don't sound right.

How'd you come to join the rangers?

Wiseman clagett.

Who?

That skunk clagett,
you know him?

He tried to put me
in jail.

Then when you go home,

some of us better
go with you.

If clagett says anything,

we'll take his jail
to pieces,

just to give him
the idea.

Yeah.
You say when.

These fellas aren't
so bad, after all.

Towne. Major wants you.

Got buzzards bay there?

We'll make it tonight.

That isn't
very far, sir.

Better to take your time
going 10 miles and make it

than it is
trying to go 30

is such a hurry
that you don't.

These frenchmen pop out
of the water like frogs.

Want to paint
some indians?

I don't see
any indians, major.

Then you'd better
keep looking.

If they see you first, you'll
lay where they leave you.

We don't stop
for funerals.

Just what did they
teach you at harvard

about
a northwest passage?

Why, how
the early explorers

looked for
a shortcut by water

through america
to japan,

but they all failed.

Of course. There
is no shortcut.

The only true route
to the western ocean

will be found by men
who break trails

and fight indians.

Tha�s my aim when
all this is over.

There.
Now you can see

what the enemy
looks like.

Are those frenchmen?

They look like
toy soldiers.

They see our boats,
you'll find out different.

Get down, men.

Keep your fingers
on your triggers.

Don't fire unless
they see us.

Ah-ah-ah...

Better get some sleep.

Yes, sir.

Don't you
ever sleep?

Uh-huh, sometimes.

On your feet.

Come on, men.
Come on.

We're moving out.

Muffle your oars
and oarlocks.

Come on, towne,
get up.

On your feet.

Muffle oars
and oarlocks.

Muffle that oar
tight, jesse,

so the leather
doesn't slip.

Can't have any squeaks tonight.

We're slipping by the french, eh, major?

They're camped
ahead somewheres.

The lake's as narrow

as the neck
of a gin bottle.

We've got to sneak by without
the rattle of a button.

We mustn't even
hear ourselves breathe.

Put some grease
on that leather.

Yes, major.

Wrap wool around that.

Leather against leather
squeaks.

We can
breathe easy now.

We're safe.

Safe?

Yeah.

Like rats in a trap.

On your feet, men.

Come on.
We're moving out.

Come on.
Wake up, men.

On your feet, men.

We're moving, men.

On your feet.
Come on.

Get up.

Uncover your boat.

He say mohawk saw no
frenchmen ahead on lake.

Way is clear
for you.

Put them
in the boat.

I don't know.

There were frenchmen
in that camp

we passed last night.

There must be more frenchmen
ahead of us.

Perhaps our friends just
went out to take a good sleep.

Tha�s just what
i was thinking.

Well, we'll know
before morning.

All right, men.

Push off.

Push off.

Le�s get moving.

French gunboats at
the mouth of the river.

We can move
around them tonight.

No, the lake's too narrow.

We'll have to get around
them some other way.

Turn in here.

Men, some french sloops
are anchored ahead

just beyond the point.

Now, with their lookouts,

we won't get by unnoticed.

We can wipe them out.

Give us a chance.

No, no.

Somebody would be sure
to get away

and announce our coming.

Now, uh...

the only thing to do
is to go where they can't.

Men, if you found yourselves
stopped by the dirty enemy

and you had to
get around him

and you were going to need
your boats again bad,

what would you do?

Major, i'd take the boats
with me over that hill.

Webster, so would i.

And with as little noise
as possible.

Uhh!

Arggh!

Good work, men.

All we have to do now

is get down
to the bottom.

Funny thing about a boat...

i�s no good to you
on the top of a hill.

Good work, men.

I'm proud of you.

Did you hear that?

Now bring those mohawks
to me.

Keep a report of this,
towne.

Our friends the mohawks

are known
throughout the world

as great warriors.

They've come
a long journey

from their homes
in the mohawk valley,

and we, their friends,

thought they had come
to raise their hatchets

for the great king
their father.

We trusted them to find
the french's hiding place.

They returned saying
they'd seen nothing,

yet three french war boats
were in the way,

enough to kill us all.

It is impossible to make war
if you are dead.

Tell them that.

He say their father,
sir william johnson,

understand there is time make war

and time
not make war.

This is not time
make war.

Ohh.

Well, now we understand
why sir william johnson

sent our brothers
the mohawks to join us.

He sent them
to drink our rum,

eat our food,
and do nothing.

Since they won't
obey orders,

they must return
to crown point.

If they tell the real reason
they came back,

general amherst
might have them shot,

so they'll say
they became sick.

It may seem remarkable
that all of the mohawks

became sick.

They may be called old women
for doing so.

Better to be called
old women

than to be shot.

They will return at once
by land.

Le�s move.

Get their belongings
from the boat.

I'm going to see
what those sloops are doing.

Them mohawks had pelts
half as good as a weasel,

they'd be
worth shooting.

I'd burn them alive.

Injuns is
peculiar people.

You can't judge them
like white folks.

Those mohawks
are snakes.

Hey, put that down!

Wha�s going on here?

Captain,
you can't do that.

Can't?

What can't i?

These red skunks stole
the powder out of the boat.

Blow his head off!

Step aside.
Let this indian through.

I won't back down
for that dirty skunk.

Follow orders.

Go jump in the lake.

You can't
throw us orders.

We've got more brains than you.

You dirty provincial.

Dirty provincials?

Tha�s what
you think.

You and your
highlanders

and your
black irish.

You ain't rangers.

Your brass-button
soldiers

filled up with poisoned skunk water

and sawdust!

Major,
we needed that powder.

If captain williams
hadn't interfered,

none of this
wouldve happened.

You can't take liberties with an indian.

No matter how
these indians behave,

you've got to
keep them friendly.

We've got enough
unfriendly ones.

But tha�s
beside the point.

You didn't
maintain discipline.

The moment discipline's
gone, everything's gone.

Major,
i thought...

captain butterfield,
you're going back.

Report to general amherst
that you got sick, too.

You're sick, and so is
every man with a powder burn

who goes back
with you.

Captain williams...

captain williams, i'm putting you
in charge of all these sick men.

You'll start
back at once.

Major, i'd like
to say a word.

Say it.

Counting the mohawks,

you're sending back
40 men.

Tha�s 20%
of your command.

You can't afford to
lose that many, major.

Couldn't you...

reconsider
those orders?

I can still see
out of one eye.

Captain williams,
you're going back

because you're in
no condition to go on,

but most of you
are going back

because you can't
maintain discipline.

I'd make this expedition
with 50 men.

Yes, with 10 men.

I'd do more
with those 10

than i could with 200
who didn't obey orders.

All the men in this
detachment are rangers.

Do you understand?

They're not englishmen
or highlanders or irishmen.

They're rangers.

And if i find
two men leading together

as americans or englishmen,

by heavens,
i'll send them back

if we're within 20 feet
of where we're going.

Dismissed.

Injured men
fall in there.

The rest of us
will push on.

We can't risk being bottled
up in a little stream.

Fall in!

Follow me to the boats!

Any orders, sir?

Have them
cover the boats well.

Yes, sir.

Well, captain,

this is as far as we can go
with the boats.

Have every man
fill his meal bag.

Assemble all ranks
at the base of split rock

in full marching kit.

Very good, sir.

Captain jacobs, kankaba.

Men, you've followed me
faithfully

and without questions,

and i appreciate it.

Now the time has come

for you to know
where we're going,

although some of you
probably have already guessed.

Here's general amherst

and our forces
at crown point.

Here's lake champlain
and missisquoi bay

where we are now.

Up here is
the st. Lawrence river

and canada.

And right there

is the spot
we're headed for...

the abanochi indians
at st. Francis.

Tha�s where
we wanted to go, major.

I don't have to tell you
who the abanochis are.

Most of you have lost
folks and friends

in indian raids
since '57.

You'll find their scalps
at st. Francis.

Some of you men
fought in the battle

on snowshoes last year.

Ask joe turner.

He was there.
He'll tell you.

They captured lieutenants
crofton and phillips

and 20 other rangers.

Lieutenant crofton's
brother is here.

He can tell you
what happened to them.

Yes, major.

I can tell you.

Phillips had
a strip of skin

torn upward
from his stomach.

They hung him from a
tree while still alive.

They chopped his men up
with hatchets

and threw the pieces
into the pine.

They tore my brother's arms out of him.

They chopped the ends of his
ribs away from his backbone

and pried them out through
his skin one by one.

Tha�s what happened
to crofton and phillips.

But they were soldiers.
Tey had to take their chances.

But your folks
on the border farms,

they weren't
fighting anybody.

They were clearing woods
and plowing

and raising children,

trying to make
a home of it.

And then one night,

abanochi tomahawks
at the door.

If it was over quick,
they were lucky.

Now, if there's
any man here

who doesn't want
to follow me

against these indians,

he can step out now.

Destroy that map.

We'll leave provisions here
for our return.

Take two indians
and watch the boats.

If the french find them,
notify me quickly.

Well, men, you won't have
any boats to row,

and you won't have any time
to sit down.

You won't be bothered
with blisters

where you got them now.

We're going
through the swamps

so we won't leave
any tracks.

Number one squad!

Till we're out
of the bog,

we'll march three abreast.

Straighten that line!

We'll stop every hour
to save straggling.

We can't afford
to lose anybody

on this trip.

All set?

Yeah!
Yeah!

Forward!

We'll go north
all afternoon.

Should strike some
shallow water by evening.

Mosquitoes don't bite you, do they?

Nope.

You put something on
to keep them off?

Rancid bear's grease.

They hate the stink
worse than i do.

Thanks.

I'll keep
the mosquitoes.

Get off that dry land.

No tracks.

Where does he get
that energy?

Don't you wish
you were like him?

Heck no.

I'd rather
be like me.

Captain ogden?

Captain ogden.

Travel north
by northeast today.

I don't see any reason to
dillydally here any longer.

Very good, sir.

Tell the men we'll eat
breakfast on the move.

Come on.

Hit the trail.

We'll eat
on the march.

Come on, men.

Ohh.

I've slept in
a lot of worse places,

but right now,

i can't recall
just where they was.

All right, men!
On your feet!

Get that column formed!

Come on.
Keep moving, men.

Too bad this bog
isn't rum and eggnog.

We'd all be mellow
as horse apples.

Here.
Save that stuff, man.

Learn to keep going
on a mouthful a day.

Yes, sir, major.

Keep going.

Break your leg,
webster?

Yeah, in two places.

Rest here a while?

Thought i would.

Well, you'll want
some tobacco.

Won't need all that,
major.

Oh, you better
keep it, anyway.

Good luck, webster.

Get a redskin for me,
won't you?

Better than that, major.

I've got her loaded
with buckshot.

That's the spirit,
webster.

You can't leave a man behind like this.

Webster knew
what would happen

if he couldn't
keep up.

And he understands that
you'd like to help him, too,

that we all would.

He understands the same
as i would myself.

Keep going.

Keep going, men.

We'll rest here
a while.

I've sent jacobs
on ahead.

Should be near
the st. Francis river.

Have the men fall out.

Fall out, men!

Fall out!
Fall out!

Ain't you sick of
sausage and cornmeal?

No, can't say i am,

seeing this is
all we got.

Now, if i had been led
to expect roast turkey,

i'd be sick of
sausage and cornmeal,

but not otherwise.

Major!

Major rogers!

Kankaba!

Major!

The boats!

What about the boats?

The french
found our boats!

Quiet.

Captain ogden,
wait a minute.

This concerns
all of us.

When did
it happen?

Sundown,
three suns ago.

How many french
and indians?

Maybe 500.

500? 500?
500? 500?

Well, men, the french think
they've trapped us.

They think
they've cut us off

and that this is the end
of rogers' rangers.

They've been trying for
five years to wipe us out.

Now they think
they'll have our scalps.

They're probably
counting the money.

1,000 pounds
for my head alone.

They want us pretty bad,
the french do.

Want to know how i feel,
i'll tell you.

We've always done things
they thought were impossible,

and i don't propose
to stop now.

No!
No!

They think they've got us.

They think
we're as good as dead.

They haven't got me,
and they haven't got you.

Not yet, they haven't.

I don't think
they ever will,

if we continue to fight
as we have in the past.

Get out your maps.

Yes, sir.

Lieutenant mcmullen...

that's a bad knee,
lieutenant.

You'll never make it.

There's nothing the matter with my knee.

Good.

I'm sending you back to
crown point with a message.

Remember this map
is a big inverted "v. "

We're going up
to st. Francis.

Then we'll start down
past lake memphremagog.

Tell general amherst
to send food for 150 men

to old fort wentworth

or where it was
if it's fallen down.

Circle around the french,

even if you have to make
a 50-mile detour.

They'll be following us.

Take keely and wilson
with you.

They're too sick
to go on.

Don't tell them the message
unless you have to.

If the french take you,

don't let them know
how we plan to get back

no matter what they do.

You've got to get through.

Provisions for 150 men
at fort wentworth.

You're coming back
the eastern leg

past lake memphremagog.

That's right.

That's how
we'll come back

if we come back.

Good luck.

Goodbye, major.

Keely! Wilson!

We're moving!

Big river.

That'll be
the st. Francis.

Tell captain ogden
to have the men fall in.

We'll cross at once.

Yes, sir.

Forward, men!

Forward!

We ought to be about
15 miles above town.

How many rafts
shall we make, sir?

We got no time
for rafts.

Have the men
plug their muskets.

We'll wade it.

How can we wade that?

Well...

you could,
couldn't you,

if you had
a good stout chain

stretched across
to hang on to?

Sure, major, but we ain't got no chain.

Well,
we'll make one.

We'll make a human chain, man by man.

I don't know that it's
ever been done before,

but that's no reason
why it can't be.

I'll see
what it's like.

Now, ain't he a caution?

We ferry boats
over a hill

where a panther
couldn't crawl.

Now we make a chain
across a river

where a fish
couldn't swim.

All right.

Take your indians
downstream.

If anybody drowns,
get them.

Can't have any bodies

floating down the st.
Francis to give warning.

Ogden!
Yes, sir!

Pick your best men.

Come on, men!

Grab a hand!

Take a good hold, men.
Now, don't let go.

How about you, towne?

Do you feel husky enough
to be the first man over?

Yes, sir.

When you get
on the other side,

get out your notebook
and keep count.

Yes, sir.

Keep your feet, men!

Get that man!

Fill it in, men!
Fill in that break!

Come on.
We got to keep moving.

It's boyle. He's sick.

I'll go and get him.

Stay where you are.

We'll have to leave him.

Boyle, keep traveling east,

try to keep out of
the way of the french.

They'll be following us.

Good luck!

Come on, avery.

We've got to keep moving.

When you get across,

tell the men
to pull us over.

Well done, major.

Nice work,
major.

Shall we bury
the dead, sir?

No time for funerals.
Hide them in the bushes.

Yes, sir.

What do you make of it?

142... 5 are
without muskets.

Not bad.
Could be worse.

I could take quebec
with 142 men like these.

Now draw your loads
and reload with buckshot.

We're heading
for st. Francis.

Forward, march!

Let's see now.

Bayonet...

bullets...

powder...

hatchet, and...

i've been saving this here
for the fireworks.

They're having some sort
of celebration.

They're probably all drunk,
but we can't count on it.

Every man
must get some sleep.

You're going to need it.

You asleep, langdon?

No. Are you?

What are you
thinking about?

Oh, just things.

Sunday at home.

My mother
in the kitchen

pouring flapjack batter.

Firelight
at studely's tavern.

Elizabeth browne.

The way
her hand touched mine

when we held
the hymnbook in church.

The major's back,
and everything's all right.

All right?

Yes. We're going
to attack at dawn.

Come on, men.

Come on!

You sure
you got everything?

Hatchet, boots,
bullets, powder?

Kind of wish i was
back in jail now.

Yeah.

Now pay attention.

I've just had
a look at the town.

They've been having a
whale of a time all night.

Haven't left
a sentry out.

The wind
is in our favor.

Even the dogs
can't smell us.

Lucky thing
for the dogs.

We're to
wipe out this town,

so see that you do it.

Kill every fighting indian
quick and kill them dead.

Don't kill our own indians
or the white captives.

Our indians will have
white crosses on their backs.

Remember this...

down there is the food
we've dreamed of...

and we're going to need it

if we expect
to stay alive.

We'll get it, too.
All of it.

Towne, you and marriner go with me.

You, too, mcnott,
and sergeant lucas.

All right.

Now listen to
your company commanders.

Repeat what you're
going to do.

I'll advance
with 50 men and torches.

We'll fire the village, then
move to the river's edge

and hold the beach.

Right. Dunbar?

Hold the ridge
and kill them

if they try
to escape this way.

I'm to barricade the river
road above the village.

I'll block
the downstream end.

Shoot down the dogs
that tortured my brother.

Right.

Attack when you hear me
give the cry of the loon.

All right.

Fix your bayonets.
Report to your stations.

Good luck.

Thank you, sir.

Come on, towne.

Cold?

I never shot
a man before.

I know just
how you feel.

It's nothing
to be ashamed of.

I was paralyzed
all through my first fight.

Like getting buck fever,
just stood there.

But my old musket
was so well-trained

that it kept firing and
reloading all by itself.

I killed six indians
and never pulled the trigger.

If i had that gun,
i'd be all right.

When things start popping,
maybe you'll find it.

Under cover, men!

Don't fire till
you hear the command!

Here they come, men!
Stand by!

Fire!

Fire!

Prettiest shot
i ever made.

Aah!

Getting any
pretty pictures?

Looks like you found

that gun all right.

Come on!
Come get 'em.

Drive them back!

Kill them!
Kill them all!

Ogden!

Come on, men!

Come on,
white men!

Dunbar, come in!
Come in!

Charge!

Aah!

Aah!

Some are getting away!

Go on over and get them!

Aah!

Too young!

Prisoner!

Oh!

Crofton!

Crofton, haven't
you had enough?

Ha ha ha ha ha!

Tally our losses and
get the men together.

We haven't got
time to waste.

I want towne
to make a report.

Let me go!
You let me go!

Watch it!

What about
provisions?

None, sir.

The french took them.

There's nothing left but a
few baskets of parched corn.

Put them in the canoes.

We've got a long way to go on that corn.

Divide it up and tell every
man to fill his knapsack.

Bring those
white prisoners here.

Move on.
Get up here.

What's your name, ma'am?

Sarah hatten
from new hampshire.

They took me
seven years ago.

Killed my husband and knocked
my baby's head against a tree.

My husband's scalp is
over there with 700 others.

Oh, don't...
don't leave me here.

I'll look out for you.

The french will be back.
They'll see the smoke.

How many?

About 400 and a band
of braves from here.

It's the truth,
all right.

They'll be back and
put up their stakes again,

and your ugly head will
be the first on the pole.

What's your name?

Jennie coit.

She's been
living here so long

she's worse than
these red rips.

Ah, rip yourself,
you old hag.

She's white.
She goes back.

Lieutenant dunbar, get them
started across the river.

I stay here
where i belong!

You white devil!

Go on! Get her moving!
Hurry up!

She gives you
any trouble,

stick her in the rump
with a bayonet.

What do we do
with those?

Let them go.

Tell them
i'm letting them go

so they can give a
message to their people.

Say that i destroyed
their town as a lesson.

Tell them if they ever
send their warriors

to take the scalps
of our people,

i'll have no mercy
next time.

We attacked at 5:17.

It's 6:10 now,
and we're still here.

Assemble the men.
We've got to get moving.

Where's towne?
Have you seen towne?

Langdon towne!

Take two men
and burn the fort.

Slim!

You can't use
all those moccasins.

I'll keep them
for you.

Langdon!

Crofton, have you
seen langdon towne?

No!

Langdon!

Langdon.

I let him
see me first.

How does it feel, son?

Well, sort of like...

i spilled
hot soup on myself.

We got to travel.

Come on.

Ow!

Put your weight
on me now.

We won't say nothing
to the major about this.

Come in here!

All right!
Get them in the boats!

We're ready
to go, major.

Don't any of
these red hellions

have man-sized feet?

Lieutenant avery!

Captain ogden!

All right.
Shove off.

When we get
on the other side,

i'll build
a stretcher for you.

Be careful of him.
He's pretty bad wounded.

I'll be right behind you, langdon.

Assemble all the men
over here.

Line them up,
sergeant.

Here we go.

Line up!

Captain's orders!

Over here!

Get out of the water!
Out of those canoes!

Out! Out!

Out of those canoes!

Hurry up, men.

Join your companies
and report at once.

Assemble over here.

How many men missing?

Seven, sir.

Two.

Three, sir.

Four.

16.

It might be worse.

Towne's wounded.

He's lying there, sir.

Now pay attention.

Pretty soon there'll be 500
frenchmen and indians back here

looking for their silverware
and sunday britches.

We've got to
keep ahead of them,

and we've got
to get to food.

How do you aim
to get us back, major?

Go any way
but that swamp again.

Then we'll strike out
for lake memphremagog.

Then we'll go to old
fort wentworth and food.

Did you say food?
How far is it, major?

We ought to be able to step
into the lake in 10 days.

You can rest your stomachs all the way.

When we get there, maybe we
can stop to hunt and fish.

Salmon, trout,
and deer steaks.

Will that suit everybody?

Oh, yeah.

All right.
Before we start,

every man eat
a handful of corn.

That's a banquet.

What do you think the french
will eat at st. Francis?

Nothing but roast indians.

All right, ogden!
Start them south!

Right...

face!

Right face!

Forward!

March!

Didn't you
hear assembly?

Join your company,
marriner.

Langdon's wounded.

I'll look after him.

I ain't going
to leave him.

Another word
and i'll have you shot.

Join your company.

Yes, sir.

Don't give up, son.

Are you hurt bad?

That's the first thing i've
had in my stomach in days.

Oh!

Can you walk?

You know my orders.

I can't let the men
carry extra burdens.

Have you tried to walk?

How do you know you can't
walk unless you've tried?

You know, when people
want to badly enough,

they do
all sorts of things

they didn't know
they could do.

What's a little piece
of lead

to a great big
husky fellow like you?

Say...

you've got a sweetheart
at home, ain't you?

Well, now, what are you going to do,

lie here and rot

and let
some other fellow

take her away from you?

Hmm?

Where's that book
of yours?

Let's see.

Didn't i see the picture
of a pretty girl in here?

Why, sure i did.

My, my, my.

Do you think i'd lie here
like a newborn calf

if i had
a girl like that?

Not me.

Is she really
as pretty as that?

Prettier.

Come on.

Come on!

Now, i'll help you
this far but no farther.

A ranger puts
his left foot forward.

Now your right.

That's the spirit.

Left!

Right!

Left!

Right!

Left!

Here, you!

Whatever your name is,
come over here!

Bring that
little indian boy.

Right!

Left!

Right!

Your name is billy.
Get over here.

Give this soldier
a little support

until that blood
stops running.

That's it. Left!

Right!

In a few days,

you'll lick any man
in the outfit.

Left! Right!

I'll see you
at sundown, harvard.

Left!

Right!

Keep on your feet,
turner.

They're all you've got

between you and bread
and molasses.

I'm glad you can't see
yourself in those beads, mcneal.

Ha ha ha!

What have you got in
that knapsack, crofton?

Souvenir.

You better throw it away
if it's heavy.

It's not heavy.
It's light.

Ha ha ha!

Rangers...

fall out!

Make camp!

Marriner! Beacham!

Yes, sir.

Come on, son.

How are you feeling?

I'm all right.

Ah!

I'm first-rate.

That's good.

Don't you think
you better sit down?

No, i better not.

If i sat down,

it might be pretty hard
to get up again.

No, i'd better not.

You sure ought to be glad
that hole isn't in you.

I guess you're right.

But that's as nice
a place for a hole

as i could think of
if i thought all day...

if you have to
have a hole.

How far have we come?

Oh, about 15 miles,
as near as i can figure.

It's almost sundown,
isn't it?

Yeah.

Jesse and me will
take you into camp.

You go with the women
where you belong.

I'm fixing his bandage.

I'll tend to that.

Go on!
Do like i tell you.

Go on! Get out of here!
No! Leave me alone!

Here, you mink.

Don't you start
raising cain with these men

or i'll turn you loose
in the woods.

Soldier.

Go ahead.
Turn me loose.

I didn't ask
to come, did i?

Turn me loose,
why don't you?

Some of us
could carry him, sir.

Got a couple of poles i can
fasten a blanket between.

Like a hammock.

I won't do it.

I'm all right,
i tell you.

As long as i can
stay on my feet.

He's right.
If we carried him,

he'd be like
a baby for weeks.

If you can go 15 miles
today with that hole in you,

you can go anywhere.

How far is it
to lake memphremagog?

It's about...
ask her.

It looks like she's
going to take care of you.

Harvard,
i'm proud of you.

You've been eating
too much.

How much of that corn
have you eaten today?

I had two handsful.

I got pretty hungry.

Guess i must be
feeling better.

Well, you can't have it.

You'll walk 10 days
on 1 handful a day.

You're not going
to get more now.

Are we almost
to memphremagog?

Ask that big moose
up ahead.

There's the lake,
boys!

Memphremagog,
plenty of fish there!

We're going to eat!

Food!

There's the lake.

This way!

Wait. Where do you
think you're going?

A mess of trout
for supper.

A mess of french lead

and hatchets for supper,
more likely.

What's the matter
with you men?

But, major, you said
when we reached the lake,

we could stop
to hunt and fish.

Sure you did.
Yeah.

Put yourselves
in the shoes

of that french commander
that found our boats.

If he's guessed we came to
memphremagog, he came here, too.

I'm going down
with the indians to look.

The rest of you,
stay here

until i get back.

Major, my men are
mighty hungry.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

They've got corn,
haven't they?

Captain jacobs,
kankaba.

If you fellas
were smart,

you wouldn't
have to eat corn.

Hey, there.
Hey, there.

Don't take the red one.

I'm saving that
for dessert.

Where's the food?

Didn't we make it?

Langdon, you're just
in time for a little corn

with the rest
of us roosters.

See the patch
in that moccasin?

That moccasin
belonged to webster,

the man we left
in the swamp.

Same french indian
who killed webster.

They come here, too.

Mmm.

You can't expect
the men to keep going

day in and day out
without food.

A few grains of corn

won't keep their bodies
in condition.

You said when we got
to lake memphremagog,

we could hunt and fish.

We've been talking
things over.

If we can't hunt here,

we think we should hold
an officers' council

and take a vote on what's
the best thing to do.

That's regulations, if
you want to do it that way.

I vote to get to wentworth
as soon as we can.

But, major, my men
are starving.

If we don't find
something to eat,

we won't go
anyplace.

That's right.

What do you want to do?

Stay here and fish
and get roasted alive?

No, sir, but the men
feel they'll be all right

if they could split
up into hunting parties

and look for game.

That's what
my detachment thinks.

We could hunt,
then join up together again

and meet
anyplace you say.

Your men grumbling, too?

Not grumbling, they
just want a little food.

Game's as scarce
as hen's teeth.

Gone out of the woods, i guess.

A big party
like this

will drive away
what's left.

Captain ogden,
what's your idea?

Well, sir, it's pretty hard
to drive hungry men,

but i think we'd be better
off if we stick together.

Now, wait a minute.

I agree with ogden.

We're all pretty hungry,

but a hungry man
can go on

a lot longer
than he thinks he can

if he keeps his courage.

You know,
i'm pretty hungry myself,

but it's better
to be hungry

than to be cut up alive
with hatchets.

We'll be safe when we get
to wentworth.

That's only 100 miles from
here, as the crow flies.

But, major,
we ain't crows.

Wait a minute.

You know,
this is tricky country.

It would be
a mighty easy place

for a small party
to get ambushed in.

We'd better vote,
major.

Yeah.
Yeah.

All right, we'll vote.

Aye.
Aye.

Aye. Aye. Aye.

Well, that settles it.

We'll split up
into four parties.

All detachments
will meet here

at eagle mountain.

I'll have maps for you
before you leave.

And don't miss me
at eagle mountain

because you'll never find
wentworth by yourselves.

All right,
get ready to go.

Number one company,
form over here.

Number two company,
form over here.

Number three company,
over here.

Sergeant mcnott.

Yes, sir.

Send the white women

with captain jacobs,
sergeant clark,

and half
of our scouts

straight
across to crown point.

Sergeant clark.

Yes, sir.

If them french
and injuns

would lend me
a boat and bait,

i'd go catch me a trout.

You ain't hungry,
are you?

I'd rather not
discuss it.

You won't starve.

I'll see to that.

Say, if you got food,
fetch it out.

No. You ain't
hungry enough yet.

Ha ha ha.

What's the matter
with crofton?

I don't know, sir.

Crofton!

No, no, no, no!

That's mine!
That's mine!