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[MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]
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Will?
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WILL:
What is it, Pa?
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Come out here.
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Listen. Your ears are better than mine.
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Somebody's coming.
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I don't hear nothing.
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Turn off that whatchama-call-it.
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-The radio.
-I know what you call it. Turn it off.
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[TURNS RADIO OFF]
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First, I heard one of them cars.
Then it stopped.
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And now
somebody's coming down the hill.
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You hear?
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MAN: Y'all stay right here.
If I call, come a-running.
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Pa, that ain't no way to welcome folks.
Maybe it's kin.
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Kin don't come in no cars.
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See if you can wake up
that old hound dog.
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Hey, Blue?
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Come on, Blue.
I got a big old catfish head for you.
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Come on, Blue.
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Never seen such a crickety dang pit
in my whole life.
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Stuck up all over here and everything.
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[CHICKENS CLUCKING]
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-Are you Will Stockdale?
-Howdy.
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Three dang times this month,
I've been out here--
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Don't you point your finger
in my boy's face.
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Are you threatening me with a firearm?
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I'm a government representative
on business.
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Busting up here
without saying howdy or nothing.
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-What government?
-U.S. government. The draft board.
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This boy's been called for the draft.
He never reported.
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He's a draft dodger.
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Fold in that finger, sir.
I'm warning you, fold in that finger.
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He could go to jail for that.
He's in today's group.
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And this is your last chance.
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If you don't leave with that group
at 12 a.m...
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...you're gonna be in more trouble
than you ever did see.
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You already got one offense against you.
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-Not answering my letters.
-I never got no letters.
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Don't tell me you can't read. You could've
got somebody to read them to you.
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-So that ain't no excuse.
-You mean to stand there...
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...and tell me to my face
my boy can't read?
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-Now, look--
-You think my boy...
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...who has gone to school...
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...and who has read more times
than you could shake a stick at...
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...couldn't read a puny little old letter,
if he wanted to?
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By dog, sir.
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I never got no letters.
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I don't think I can stand
to listen to any more of this.
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Get that book.
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No, sir, what you think
don't mean nothing to me...
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...but we are gonna settle this here question
right here and now...
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...and not have
no more foolishness about it.
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Read at him.
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"Once there was a boy named Tony...
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...who wanted a pony.
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So he went to his mama and said:
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'May I have a pony? '
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And his Mama says:
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'No, Tony, you may not have a pony.'"
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Go on.
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"So he went to his papa and said:
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'Papa, may I have a pony? '
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And his papa says:
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'No, Tony, you may not have...
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...a pony.'"
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End of the book,
he gets the pony anyhow.
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Now that we have settled
if or not my boy can read--
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-Pa.
--you best be getting off my property...
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...and back in that car of yours
and out of range--
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-Pa, be Christian to him.
-Christian?
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You know
what the Lord would've done...
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...if a man come all hot
and stomping onto his property...
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...without saying howdy or nothing?
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Scaring his chickens
and saying folks can't read?
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Sir, would it be all right
if me and Pa speak private-like?
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-Okay, but make it short.
-Thank you, sir.
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Come on, Pa.
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And don't try any funny business.
Because I ain't alone here.
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Set yourself, Pa.
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Now, listen, Pa.
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I don't think
this here draft's such a bad idea.
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I mean, I'd kind of like to go.
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There's a whole lot of fellas there
and they all march along right, snappy like.
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You listen to me, boy.
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Going in the draft
don't mean just going into town.
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It means Macon and Atlanta
and still further.
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I've been to Atlanta, you know that.
When I was no older than you.
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I told you how them folks laughed at me
and called me smart names.
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You don't want that, boy.
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-Pa, now ain't the same as it was then.
-Dogged if it ain't.
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But they want me. They even sent a fella
to come and fetch me, didn't they?
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And that ain't all.
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Last spring, I seen a sign on the sidewalk
down there in town.
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This great big old picture of Uncle Sam.
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"And Uncle Sam wants you,"
he's a-saying.
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Just like this fellow here, Pa,
pointing his finger right straight in my face.
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Don't you think a soldier fella
come up to me right then and there...
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...inviting me to come along
with all the other fellas?
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I told him how you was ailing then...
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...and would he kindly wait a while.
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You've been tearing up them letters,
ain't you, Pa?
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And you ain't ailing no more.
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-Hey, are you coming or do I have to--
-I'm just fixing to get me my shoes.
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You've got to know this:
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He's a good boy.
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It's my blame
he didn't come when he should've.
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I don't care who or why, mister.
We got him now.
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Remember, Pa?
I got these here for Aunt Tuzie's funeral.
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Ain't it nice I'm finally getting a chance
to wear them again?
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Appears they liked to have shrunk a little.
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They'll put shoes on you in Army.
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And ain't gonna wait
for you to put them on.
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Listen, draft man, you tell them folks
to be nice to my boy, you hear?
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-lf they ain't, I'll--
-I'm ready.
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Say goodbye to Blue for me
when he wakes up, will you?
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I will.
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-Write to me regular, you hear?
-Sure, Pa.
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Print big.
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I will.
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Remember, draft man, what I said.
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-lf they ain't good to my boy....
-Yeah, I'll remember.
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Come on, boy, we gotta go.
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-Bye, Pa.
-Bye, Will.
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All right, fill it out.
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Last name first, first name,
middle name last. Fill it out.
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All right, fill it out.
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Last name first, first name,
middle name last. Fill them out.
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All right. Fill it out.
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Last name first, first name,
middle name last. Fill it out.
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Fill it out. Last name first, first name,
middle name last. Fill it out.
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Rosabelle Lou, honest now,
you sure you gonna miss me?
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Why, Stanton, honey...
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...you all know your little Rosabelle's
just gonna die of loneliness.
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Honey, baby doll.
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All right, fill it out.
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Last name first, first name,
middle name last. Fill it out.
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Fill it out. Last name first, first name,
middle name last. Fill it out.
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Hey, you.
This the group going to the Air Force?
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That's where I'm driving the bus to.
You want a reserved seat?
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All right.
Save the jokes for the plowboys.
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Fill it out. Last name, first name,
middle name last.
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-I know, I know, I know.
-Fill it out.
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Hey, look,
they're bringing a fella in bracelets.
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Finally latched onto him, Mr. McKinney?
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-Did he give you any trouble?
-Trouble?
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Ain't no draft dodger
gonna give me any trouble.
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Had to borrow the sheriff's handcuffs.
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That'll hold you
till I get you on that bus.
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-But, Mr. McKinney, I ain't dodging nothing.
-Shut up.
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Let me have it.
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Fill it out. Last name first, first name,
middle name last. Lean on the pump.
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-Last name first--
-First name, middle name last.
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Huh.
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-All right, any you boys had any ROTC?
-I did. Close to a year.
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-What's your name?
-Blanchard, Irving S.
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Irving? Okay, Irving.
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I'm setting you in charge
of this here group.
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When you
get to your classification center...
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...give these forms
to the sergeant of your barracks.
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-What about him?
-Keep them cuffs on him. Here are the keys.
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It took me three months
to flush him out of them hills...
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...so see that he don't get away.
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Come on in my office, Dave,
I'll give you your money.
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Whew.
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You hear what he said, Plowboy?
I don't want any trouble, you understand?
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-Me, neither, Irving.
-My name's Blanchard to you.
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It's a real pleasure.
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You getting smart with me, Plowboy?
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I don't wanna hear one peep out of you.
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Not one peep.
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All right, I ain't had my morning coffee,
so I ain't gonna wait around to see you off.
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Now, Irving here's in charge.
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Callville is proud of her sons in uniform...
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...so show them
what kind of men we raise here.
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And be good.
And if you can't be good, be careful.
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[LAUGHING]
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Rosabelle!
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Pa.
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Get on home!
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Yes, Pa.
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I told you to stay home this time!
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Dang it.
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All right, all right,
into the bus when I call your name.
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-Deroy, Richard S.
-Here.
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-Farnum, Robert E.
-Here.
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-Hooper, Junior C.
-Here.
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-Lemon, Henry P.
-Here.
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-Stockdale, Will.
-Uh-- Here.
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I'll get around to you.
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-Swineburn, Armand A.
-Here.
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Whitledge, Benjamin B.
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Whitledge, Benjamin B.
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Here, here. Whitledge, here.
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-Benjamin B. Is Mr. McKinney here?
-Who?
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Mr. McKin-- Mr. McKinney, the man
on the draft board. I got a letter for him.
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Take it easy, sonny. You just missed him.
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-Oh, I gotta find him. I got a letter for him.
-He left me in charge.
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Hey, give me that. That's a private letter.
It's official business for Mr. McKinney.
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Don't you understand English?
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I'm in charge.
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And here, fill out that form.
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-That's a private letter, you big--
-Hey.
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Don't get sore at Irving, feller.
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He's had ROTC.
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That doesn't give him the right
to push me around.
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Hey, you put your last name first,
and then your first name.
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Like this.
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Stockdale, Will. Will Stockdale.
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Stockdale. Stockdale?
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All you need is one of each.
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Is that all?
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Wise guy. Oh.
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Much obliged.
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What's the matter with you?
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Oh, they think I'm a draft dodger,
but I ain't.
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Here, give me.
You can't write good with handcuffs.
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Thanks. Can't write much good
without them. Heh.
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-"Ever had measles? "
-No.
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-"The mumps? "
-No.
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-"Chickenpox? "
-No.
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-"Any other communicable diseases? "
-I reckon not.
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You figure
they gonna make me go back home?
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-"Ever break any bones? "
-Broke a leg bone once.
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-"Which leg? "
-The r-- No, it was the left.
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Yeah, left. Left.
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"Any member of your family
belong to groups...
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...planning to overthrow the government
by unconstitutional means? "
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No, we're pretty satisfied.
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-He still limps a mite.
-Who does?
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That fellow whose leg bone I broke.
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He hit me first.
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You ever have ROTC?
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No.
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Hey, Irving had it. Close to a year.
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He's so jumpy and all,
I figure he's still got a touch of it in him.
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-Listen, Stockdale, ROTC--
-Will's my name.
238
00:14:35,608 --> 00:14:38,396
-Will, listen, ROTC ain't--
-What was yours again?
239
00:14:38,578 --> 00:14:42,265
-Ben. Ben Whitledge. ROTC--
-Howdy.
240
00:14:43,216 --> 00:14:44,901
Hi.
241
00:14:45,885 --> 00:14:49,675
Look, Will, ROTC ain't a disease.
It's training.
242
00:14:49,856 --> 00:14:53,373
Reserve Officer Training, uh, Corporation.
243
00:14:53,559 --> 00:14:56,882
-Heh. Is that the truth?
-Oh, sure. There's different kinds.
244
00:14:57,063 --> 00:15:01,717
There's cavalry ROTC,
artillery ROTC, infantry ROTC.
245
00:15:02,435 --> 00:15:06,794
-Infantry's the best.
-Yeah, that's what I always thought.
246
00:15:08,674 --> 00:15:13,192
-Ben, Irving ain't sick?
-No.
247
00:15:13,379 --> 00:15:15,234
And he don't rank no higher
than we do.
248
00:15:15,415 --> 00:15:19,398
Because ROTC don't mean nothing
unless you finish the course.
249
00:15:19,819 --> 00:15:21,333
IRVING:
Hey, get this.
250
00:15:21,754 --> 00:15:23,803
"So I beg of you, Mr. McKinney.
251
00:15:23,990 --> 00:15:27,916
Please get my enclosed letter
to the commanding officer in the Air Force."
252
00:15:28,094 --> 00:15:30,245
Hey, you can't read that.
253
00:15:30,430 --> 00:15:33,321
"So that my son Ben
will be put in the infantry...
254
00:15:33,499 --> 00:15:35,957
...the same as his six brothers
before him."
255
00:15:36,135 --> 00:15:38,650
Give me that, you big-- Let go.
Let-- Let go of me!
256
00:15:38,838 --> 00:15:42,992
"All his life, little Ben has been dreaming
of being a real infantry soldier...
257
00:15:43,176 --> 00:15:45,191
...like all the men in our family."
258
00:15:45,711 --> 00:15:47,259
Little Ben
wanna be a great big soldier?
259
00:15:47,447 --> 00:15:48,461
[MEN LAUGHING]
260
00:15:48,915 --> 00:15:49,929
Irving?
261
00:15:51,651 --> 00:15:54,610
That letter belongs to Ben.
Now, you give it to him.
262
00:15:54,787 --> 00:15:58,577
I told you
to keep your mouth shut, Plowboy.
263
00:15:58,925 --> 00:16:04,217
"It'll break his poor heart if he's put
in the Air Force instead of the infantry...
264
00:16:04,397 --> 00:16:06,617
...so his brothers will be proud of him."
265
00:16:06,799 --> 00:16:08,256
[MEN LAUGHING]
266
00:16:08,434 --> 00:16:12,690
Irving, you ain't sick like I thought,
so you give Ben his letter.
267
00:16:12,872 --> 00:16:14,796
Listen, Plowboy.
268
00:16:22,081 --> 00:16:23,197
Yeah, sure.
269
00:16:24,217 --> 00:16:26,471
I imagine it's time for us
to get going, ain't it?
270
00:16:26,652 --> 00:16:29,133
So I'd thank you
if you'd take these off, Irving.
271
00:16:29,322 --> 00:16:32,748
-They're beginning to chafe me a mite.
-Yeah.
272
00:16:33,092 --> 00:16:35,482
Yeah. Yeah, sure.
273
00:16:37,330 --> 00:16:40,949
All right, let's stop kidding around here.
Climb aboard there. Snappy now.
274
00:16:41,133 --> 00:16:43,489
Why, sure, Irving.
275
00:16:46,739 --> 00:16:48,321
All right, move along. Move along.
276
00:16:48,508 --> 00:16:50,989
So long, boys.
Don't take any wooden nickels.
277
00:16:51,177 --> 00:16:52,998
[LAUGHS]
278
00:16:53,179 --> 00:16:57,469
I appreciate if you write me how much
it cost to get it fixed, Mr. McKinney.
279
00:16:57,650 --> 00:16:59,369
Bye.
280
00:17:14,133 --> 00:17:18,219
WILL: It sure was interesting
when we got to the classification center.
281
00:17:18,404 --> 00:17:21,192
They took us around
from one building to another.
282
00:17:21,374 --> 00:17:23,525
And they stuck needles into our arms...
283
00:17:23,709 --> 00:17:26,668
...and whomped us on the knees
with a little rubber hammer...
284
00:17:26,846 --> 00:17:30,363
...and mashed down our tongues
with an ice cream stick.
285
00:17:30,550 --> 00:17:32,735
Then after a real nice supper...
286
00:17:32,919 --> 00:17:36,470
...I never had such a fill of beans
in my whole life...
287
00:17:36,656 --> 00:17:38,637
...we was all setting
around the barracks...
288
00:17:38,824 --> 00:17:41,339
...in our snappy new uniforms
learning how to salute...
289
00:17:41,527 --> 00:17:45,112
...everybody talking and joking
and feeling the back of their necks...
290
00:17:45,298 --> 00:17:47,813
...where they had these horse clippers
run over them...
291
00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:52,450
...when this nice fella,
this here sergeant, come in.
292
00:17:52,705 --> 00:17:53,719
[BLOWS WHISTLE]
293
00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:56,630
MAN 1: Hey.
MAN 2: Why, there's the sergeant.
294
00:17:56,809 --> 00:17:58,767
[MEN CHATTERING]
295
00:17:59,111 --> 00:18:02,070
Please, let's keep it quiet.
296
00:18:02,582 --> 00:18:04,836
On behalf
of the president of the United States...
297
00:18:05,017 --> 00:18:08,465
...Secretary of the Air Force, commanders
of this base and this squadron...
298
00:18:08,654 --> 00:18:11,807
...I wanna welcome you, gentlemen,
to the United States Air Force.
299
00:18:11,991 --> 00:18:16,543
This is a classification center where you will
undergo tests, both physical and mental...
300
00:18:16,729 --> 00:18:20,086
...designed to determine your abilities
so that you may be trained...
301
00:18:20,266 --> 00:18:23,692
...for the position
from which both you and the Air Force...
302
00:18:23,869 --> 00:18:26,327
...will derive the greatest benefit.
303
00:18:27,106 --> 00:18:30,031
Tests are for you own good,
so do your best in every test.
304
00:18:30,209 --> 00:18:35,728
My name is King.
K-l-N-G, Sergeant King.
305
00:18:35,915 --> 00:18:39,739
I'm in charge of the barracks
where you will be billeted for two weeks.
306
00:18:39,919 --> 00:18:45,347
During that period,
the barracks will be kept spotlessly clean.
307
00:18:45,891 --> 00:18:50,318
This may be a stopping off place for you,
but for me, it is home.
308
00:18:50,763 --> 00:18:54,814
Before turning in tonight, every one of you
will write a letter to his nearest of kin...
309
00:18:55,001 --> 00:19:00,190
...informing them that you have
arrived safely and are in the best of health.
310
00:19:00,373 --> 00:19:04,094
If any problem should arise,
feel free to consult me about its solution.
311
00:19:04,276 --> 00:19:06,791
I am here to help you...
312
00:19:06,979 --> 00:19:11,133
...during these first difficult days
of military service.
313
00:19:14,353 --> 00:19:16,402
These are my quarters.
314
00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,178
Knock before entering.
315
00:19:24,764 --> 00:19:27,348
-That understood?
MEN: Yes, sir.
316
00:19:27,533 --> 00:19:29,184
Roger.
317
00:19:29,468 --> 00:19:30,482
Wilco.
318
00:19:36,542 --> 00:19:38,056
[DOOR CLOSES]
319
00:19:39,879 --> 00:19:41,837
Seemed like a right friendly fella.
320
00:19:42,782 --> 00:19:44,672
Be right back.
321
00:19:55,294 --> 00:19:56,581
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
322
00:19:56,762 --> 00:19:58,310
Come in.
323
00:20:01,534 --> 00:20:02,548
Private Blanchard...
324
00:20:02,735 --> 00:20:06,559
...delivering forms on 12 inductees
from Callville as ordered.
325
00:20:06,739 --> 00:20:09,630
You keep standing like that,
you're gonna pull a muscle.
326
00:20:10,109 --> 00:20:12,260
Just put them down.
327
00:20:12,445 --> 00:20:15,336
Not on the bed, please.
328
00:20:23,856 --> 00:20:24,938
Anything else?
329
00:20:25,124 --> 00:20:28,777
Sergeant, I feel it's my duty to tell you
about one of the Callville inductees.
330
00:20:28,961 --> 00:20:32,318
Fella named Stockdale. A draft dodger.
331
00:20:32,498 --> 00:20:34,422
He gave me a lot of trouble.
332
00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:36,615
Not on the bed, please.
333
00:20:41,941 --> 00:20:44,593
I was put in charge
and he gave me a lot of trouble.
334
00:20:44,777 --> 00:20:47,634
They brought him to the bus in these.
335
00:20:49,915 --> 00:20:51,736
I'll make a note of it.
336
00:20:51,917 --> 00:20:54,398
I think he'll need some disciplinary action.
337
00:20:54,587 --> 00:20:58,911
He already hit one of the fellas
with a gasoline pump.
338
00:20:59,091 --> 00:21:02,482
-In the barracks here?
-No, back at the bus station.
339
00:21:04,230 --> 00:21:06,120
I'll make a note of it.
340
00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:10,688
I thought he ought to be reported
to the squadron commander.
341
00:21:10,870 --> 00:21:13,124
-Oh, no.
-Well, I mean, I think it's my duty to--
342
00:21:13,305 --> 00:21:15,763
Any reporting done around here, I do it.
343
00:21:16,175 --> 00:21:19,100
Sure you do. And this fella Stockdale's
a real troublemaker.
344
00:21:19,278 --> 00:21:22,260
Look, sonny,
how long have you been in the service?
345
00:21:22,448 --> 00:21:23,598
[MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]
346
00:21:23,783 --> 00:21:27,334
About six hours, I guess.
I had ROTC though.
347
00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,070
I suppose they told you
it was all efficiency...
348
00:21:30,256 --> 00:21:32,771
...standing at attention, running around.
349
00:21:32,958 --> 00:21:37,976
Well, I've been in for 18 years
and it ain't like you think it is at all.
350
00:21:38,164 --> 00:21:42,853
It's a quiet, peaceful life,
if you mind your own business.
351
00:21:43,035 --> 00:21:45,858
It's like there was a big lake,
nice and calm.
352
00:21:46,038 --> 00:21:49,691
I'm in a canoe, you're in another,
the captain's in a canoe and the colonel.
353
00:21:49,875 --> 00:21:53,232
You know what you do if you report
somebody or complain about somebody...
354
00:21:53,412 --> 00:21:55,165
...or request something?
355
00:21:56,048 --> 00:21:58,336
You make waves.
356
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,843
Well, I thought the captain would wanna
know if he's got a troublemaker.
357
00:22:05,024 --> 00:22:07,539
I hate to pull rank on you,
but for your information...
358
00:22:07,726 --> 00:22:11,652
...you got the smallest canoe
in the whole lake. Good night, private.
359
00:22:14,867 --> 00:22:16,848
ANNOUNCER [OVER RADIO]:
And now our next request...
360
00:22:17,036 --> 00:22:20,792
...comes from
Master Sergeant Orville C. King...
361
00:22:20,973 --> 00:22:23,227
...at the Air Force classification center.
362
00:22:23,409 --> 00:22:24,627
Here you are, Sergeant.
363
00:22:24,810 --> 00:22:26,791
[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
PLAYING OVER RADIO]
364
00:22:50,769 --> 00:22:55,025
Hey, Ben,
do you put a big "S" on "sergeant"?
365
00:22:55,207 --> 00:22:57,529
When you print it,
it don't make no difference, Will.
366
00:22:57,710 --> 00:23:00,396
Oh. Boy, Pa'll sure be happy...
367
00:23:00,579 --> 00:23:02,901
...about how Sergeant King
said it was really a home.
368
00:23:03,082 --> 00:23:04,596
[CHUCKLES]
369
00:23:07,253 --> 00:23:10,212
-No, come on, Ben, you take the bottom.
-No, Will.
370
00:23:10,389 --> 00:23:14,315
-But, honest, I like sleeping high.
-No, sir. You sat on the bottom bunk first.
371
00:23:14,493 --> 00:23:16,576
I didn't mean nothing by it.
Honest, I didn't.
372
00:23:16,762 --> 00:23:19,016
First come, first serve.
That's the military way.
373
00:23:19,198 --> 00:23:21,884
-No, now come on, Ben.
-I won't, I tell you!
374
00:23:22,067 --> 00:23:25,493
-Now, come on.
-Let that man alone, Stockdale.
375
00:23:25,671 --> 00:23:28,789
I'm beginning to think I never should've
taken the cuffs off of you.
376
00:23:29,308 --> 00:23:31,664
Well, Irving, I wasn't doing nothing.
I was just--
377
00:23:31,844 --> 00:23:35,099
Look, if you want some fighting,
you go after somebody your own size.
378
00:23:35,281 --> 00:23:37,933
-Not some little mouse.
-Watch your mouth!
379
00:23:38,117 --> 00:23:39,904
Why don't you mind your own business?
380
00:23:40,085 --> 00:23:42,635
We're just stopping him
from wrestling you around.
381
00:23:42,821 --> 00:23:44,836
That's between him and me,
nobody asked you.
382
00:23:45,024 --> 00:23:46,106
Now, Ben, don't--
383
00:23:46,292 --> 00:23:50,719
-Only trying to do you a favor, junior.
-Who you calling Junior?
384
00:23:50,896 --> 00:23:52,581
Who asked you anything, anyhow?
385
00:23:52,765 --> 00:23:55,053
All right,
if that's the way you feel about it.
386
00:23:55,234 --> 00:23:59,490
You wanna be buddies with draft dodger,
be buddies with the draft dodger. Go ahead.
387
00:23:59,672 --> 00:24:02,893
-That's the way I feel about it.
-All right, before there's trouble...
388
00:24:03,075 --> 00:24:05,499
...you hit the sack.
Get to bed, both of you.
389
00:24:05,778 --> 00:24:07,395
I was just going to, Irving.
390
00:24:07,579 --> 00:24:10,504
BRONCO: Give him time, Irving,
beds is strange to Plowboy.
391
00:24:10,683 --> 00:24:12,538
He's used to sleeping with the hogs.
392
00:24:12,718 --> 00:24:14,107
[LAUGHS]
393
00:24:14,286 --> 00:24:16,676
-What's the matter with you, anyhow?
-Me?
394
00:24:16,855 --> 00:24:19,837
Taking their insults
and heehawing like a dang donkey.
395
00:24:20,025 --> 00:24:22,040
They don't mean nothing by it, Ben.
396
00:24:22,227 --> 00:24:25,152
Besides, I thought that one about sleeping
with the hogs is kind of funny.
397
00:24:25,331 --> 00:24:26,686
-Aww....
-Heh-heh.
398
00:24:26,865 --> 00:24:29,790
Well, see,
I figure if we just laugh with them...
399
00:24:29,969 --> 00:24:33,827
...why, pretty soon they'll get tired
of carrying on, there won't be no ruckus.
400
00:24:34,006 --> 00:24:36,965
You think
a-laughing is gonna stop these guys?
401
00:24:37,142 --> 00:24:39,794
A-licking is all they understand.
402
00:24:40,913 --> 00:24:42,996
-You think so?
-I know so.
403
00:24:43,182 --> 00:24:46,300
And you behaving like a dang donkey.
404
00:24:56,829 --> 00:24:59,151
MAN 1:
Oh, what's he holding?
405
00:24:59,431 --> 00:25:01,321
MAN 2: You know...?
MAN 3: Oh, yeah.
406
00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:02,514
I'm through.
407
00:25:02,701 --> 00:25:04,158
-Yeah, I've had enough.
-Me too.
408
00:25:04,336 --> 00:25:05,918
Yeah.
409
00:25:08,207 --> 00:25:10,256
Lonesome for the hogs, Plowboy?
410
00:25:10,442 --> 00:25:12,662
Ain't used to living indoors,
are you, Plowboy?
411
00:25:12,845 --> 00:25:15,702
Look, Plowboy,
you want us to tuck you in bed?
412
00:25:15,881 --> 00:25:18,840
I bet your pa always tucked you in
nice and comfy.
413
00:25:19,018 --> 00:25:21,977
Wonder what kind of hog his pa is.
414
00:25:22,154 --> 00:25:24,612
Chester White or Poland China?
415
00:25:24,790 --> 00:25:27,146
[MEN LAUGHING]
416
00:25:29,862 --> 00:25:31,717
I ain't gonna trouble you fellas none...
417
00:25:31,897 --> 00:25:34,287
...because I know you was all
just put up to it.
418
00:25:34,466 --> 00:25:36,219
Excuse me.
419
00:25:38,704 --> 00:25:42,323
Irving, stand up
and take off them glasses.
420
00:25:42,508 --> 00:25:46,434
-Why?
-I aim to bust you up some.
421
00:25:47,613 --> 00:25:52,267
Look, Stockdale, I'm not alone now.
422
00:25:52,451 --> 00:25:54,739
There's five of us here.
423
00:25:55,854 --> 00:25:58,369
MAN 1: Hit him!
MAN 2: Hey, do not, Plowboy.
424
00:25:58,557 --> 00:25:59,571
MAN 3:
Come on.
425
00:25:59,758 --> 00:26:02,740
MAN 4: Time out.
MAN 5: Come on, Plowboy, hit him.
426
00:26:03,629 --> 00:26:05,450
MAN 6:
That's the end of it.
427
00:26:10,035 --> 00:26:12,425
MAN 7: Come on, man.
MAN 8: Come on.
428
00:26:12,805 --> 00:26:14,820
[DISCORDANT NOTE PLAYS]
429
00:26:15,007 --> 00:26:16,988
[MEN YELLING]
430
00:26:23,749 --> 00:26:25,468
Knock it off. Knock it off.
431
00:26:25,918 --> 00:26:28,172
Knock it off!
432
00:26:28,353 --> 00:26:29,742
[YELLING STOPS ABRUPTLY]
433
00:26:31,957 --> 00:26:36,350
Aren't you gentlemen starting in a bit early
to tip over my canoe?
434
00:26:36,528 --> 00:26:39,487
Sergeant, let me try to explain.
435
00:26:39,665 --> 00:26:41,418
Shut up.
436
00:26:41,900 --> 00:26:44,757
No, I am not in the mood
for explanations.
437
00:26:44,937 --> 00:26:46,827
I am quite tired.
438
00:26:47,005 --> 00:26:48,519
You understand?
439
00:26:48,707 --> 00:26:51,325
And I want no more noise.
440
00:26:51,510 --> 00:26:53,365
You understand, gentlemen?
441
00:26:55,914 --> 00:27:00,000
I will be more than willing
to listen to explanations in the morning.
442
00:27:00,752 --> 00:27:03,677
And as morning likes to come
a little early in the service...
443
00:27:03,856 --> 00:27:05,973
...we'll help it along.
444
00:27:06,158 --> 00:27:08,844
We won't wait for taps.
445
00:27:09,795 --> 00:27:11,650
Get to your bunks.
446
00:27:11,830 --> 00:27:15,051
On the double! Ooh!
447
00:27:19,605 --> 00:27:21,563
He seems a mite upset.
448
00:27:21,740 --> 00:27:23,721
Oh, Will.
449
00:27:26,078 --> 00:27:29,663
We better put Irving in his bed.
He won't wanna disobey the sergeant.
450
00:27:31,817 --> 00:27:33,798
You get his feet.
451
00:27:43,529 --> 00:27:45,111
Let him alone, please, Will.
452
00:27:45,297 --> 00:27:47,847
He'll wake up
and cause some more trouble.
453
00:27:48,033 --> 00:27:50,184
Yeah, I reckon he might.
454
00:27:50,369 --> 00:27:55,695
-Pretty good fight, though, wasn't it?
-Dog it, Will, this'll mess up everything.
455
00:27:55,874 --> 00:27:58,526
-What will, Ben?
-Fighting in the barracks.
456
00:27:58,710 --> 00:28:00,827
But you said
licking was all they'd understand.
457
00:28:01,013 --> 00:28:02,368
Not in the barracks.
458
00:28:02,548 --> 00:28:06,099
One of them's bound to snitch tomorrow
that we started a fight.
459
00:28:06,518 --> 00:28:09,534
Dog it, I'll never get in the infantry now.
460
00:28:09,721 --> 00:28:13,203
If we kept our mouths shut and didn't
do nothing, we might get transferred.
461
00:28:13,392 --> 00:28:14,747
Both of us?
462
00:28:14,927 --> 00:28:17,147
But now,
they're sure to tell about the fight.
463
00:28:17,329 --> 00:28:18,786
No, they won't.
464
00:28:18,964 --> 00:28:22,617
If one of them says anything, I'll take him
out in the back and whomp him good.
465
00:28:22,801 --> 00:28:24,782
Now, there you go, Will.
466
00:28:24,970 --> 00:28:27,690
You think
the infantry wants men like that?
467
00:28:27,873 --> 00:28:30,764
No, they want men who can take it
and keep their mouths shut...
468
00:28:30,943 --> 00:28:32,867
...the way a man ought to do.
469
00:28:33,278 --> 00:28:35,031
Transfer?
470
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,701
We'll be lucky
if they don't transfer us into the Navy.
471
00:28:38,884 --> 00:28:41,536
Walking around
in them little old white uniforms.
472
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,474
Do you really want both of us
to transfer, Ben?
473
00:28:44,656 --> 00:28:48,639
Don't you understand, Will?
It's the infantry does the real fighting.
474
00:28:48,827 --> 00:28:50,910
All the rest is just helpers.
475
00:28:51,096 --> 00:28:53,554
Look at the War Between the States.
How about that?
476
00:28:53,732 --> 00:28:55,212
Yeah. How about that?
477
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,415
See what I mean?
478
00:28:58,103 --> 00:29:00,323
Every man
in my family's been in the infantry...
479
00:29:00,505 --> 00:29:02,656
...clear back to my great grandpa.
480
00:29:02,841 --> 00:29:04,128
You know what he done?
481
00:29:04,309 --> 00:29:06,665
Fought with Stonewall Jackson
at Chancellorsville.
482
00:29:06,845 --> 00:29:09,668
Licked him good too, I bet.
483
00:29:12,084 --> 00:29:14,269
By dog.
484
00:29:18,590 --> 00:29:22,448
First thing tomorrow, I'm gonna get
sergeant's permission to see the captain.
485
00:29:23,061 --> 00:29:26,316
I'll give him Ma's letter and I'll....
And I'll....
486
00:29:27,966 --> 00:29:29,082
Oh, what's the use?
487
00:29:31,336 --> 00:29:32,350
What's the use?
488
00:29:32,537 --> 00:29:36,190
Hey. Hey, Ben,
maybe you'll get to like the Air Force.
489
00:29:36,375 --> 00:29:42,429
Zooming all over the sky and shouting
"roger" and "wilco" and everything.
490
00:29:42,614 --> 00:29:45,129
Maybe it won't be so bad.
491
00:29:45,684 --> 00:29:46,971
Bad?
492
00:29:47,152 --> 00:29:50,043
You know what they call men
in the Air Force?
493
00:29:50,222 --> 00:29:51,645
Airmen.
494
00:29:51,823 --> 00:29:54,043
Like something out of a dang funny book.
495
00:29:54,226 --> 00:29:55,547
Airman.
496
00:29:55,727 --> 00:29:58,379
How you gonna like it
when somebody calls you "airman"?
497
00:29:58,830 --> 00:30:01,584
By dog, I just don't think I'll stand for it.
498
00:30:01,767 --> 00:30:05,750
MAN 1: Hey, long as we gotta lie in the
dark, give us a chance to get some sleep.
499
00:30:05,937 --> 00:30:07,724
-Knock it off.
MAN 2: Yeah, hit the--
500
00:30:07,906 --> 00:30:10,660
[MEN MURMURING]
501
00:30:10,842 --> 00:30:13,096
Airman.
502
00:30:17,482 --> 00:30:19,463
[TRUMPET PLAYING "TAPS"]
503
00:30:44,343 --> 00:30:46,927
Somebody brung their trumpet.
504
00:31:00,892 --> 00:31:02,873
[MEN SNORING]
505
00:31:18,243 --> 00:31:19,996
Hey, Ben.
506
00:31:20,679 --> 00:31:22,637
Hey. Hey, Ben.
507
00:31:46,905 --> 00:31:48,795
[MOANS]
508
00:31:49,574 --> 00:31:51,191
[LOUD KNOCKING ON DOOR]
509
00:31:51,376 --> 00:31:54,631
[MUTTERING]
510
00:31:55,147 --> 00:31:57,105
[POUNDING ON DOOR]
511
00:31:57,282 --> 00:32:00,469
All right, I'm up, I'm up.
All right, I'm up. All right, I'm up.
512
00:32:00,652 --> 00:32:02,041
All right, I'm up.
513
00:32:02,220 --> 00:32:03,404
Howdy, I'm Will Stockdale.
514
00:32:03,588 --> 00:32:05,944
I didn't hear the whistle.
Tell the men to line up.
515
00:32:06,124 --> 00:32:09,242
If the captain comes around,
tell him I'm checking on who overslept.
516
00:32:09,428 --> 00:32:12,546
I'll be out there just as quick as I can....
517
00:32:16,001 --> 00:32:17,982
It's 12:00 at night.
518
00:32:18,437 --> 00:32:20,019
It is?
519
00:32:21,339 --> 00:32:22,853
Oh....
520
00:32:23,041 --> 00:32:26,523
That's a prettiest watch.
521
00:32:27,212 --> 00:32:28,692
You woke me.
522
00:32:29,214 --> 00:32:31,695
Well, you said to knock before entering.
523
00:32:31,883 --> 00:32:34,307
Why did you wake me?
524
00:32:34,486 --> 00:32:37,001
This ain't nothing personal
against you, sergeant...
525
00:32:37,189 --> 00:32:40,205
...no, that we don't like your barracks
no, nothing like that.
526
00:32:40,392 --> 00:32:44,716
What it is, is Ben's got these six brothers
that's all infantry.
527
00:32:47,232 --> 00:32:49,486
That's my new buddy Ben,
that's asleep out there?
528
00:32:49,668 --> 00:32:52,889
So naturally,
he don't wanna be in no Air Force. Heh-heh.
529
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:59,691
I mean, with the infantry doing the real
fighting and the Air Force being the helpers.
530
00:33:03,982 --> 00:33:07,499
Well, you know,
like in the War Between the States?
531
00:33:07,686 --> 00:33:11,305
So he wants to transfer and he wants me
to go along with him.
532
00:33:11,490 --> 00:33:14,244
I figured you could do it for us. Heh-heh.
533
00:33:16,862 --> 00:33:18,444
I heard what you said out there...
534
00:33:18,630 --> 00:33:23,057
...about how you was here to help us
during first difficult days of military service.
535
00:33:25,403 --> 00:33:30,330
Why do they send all the bums
and the idiots to my barracks?
536
00:33:31,009 --> 00:33:34,025
-They do?
-Yes.
537
00:33:34,713 --> 00:33:36,432
Yes, they do.
538
00:33:37,148 --> 00:33:39,333
Sure must be a mess.
539
00:33:40,886 --> 00:33:43,003
-Whatever your name is, get out--
-Stockdale.
540
00:33:43,188 --> 00:33:47,046
Stockdale, I want you to get out of this--
Stockdale?
541
00:33:47,225 --> 00:33:48,944
Don't you come near me.
542
00:33:49,127 --> 00:33:52,644
Get out of this room and get back
in your bunk and go to sleep. That's all.
543
00:33:52,831 --> 00:33:54,448
Yes, sir.
544
00:33:55,433 --> 00:33:57,414
Ben did say
the captain was the one to see--
545
00:33:57,602 --> 00:33:59,924
-Stockdale, where you going?
-To the captain.
546
00:34:00,105 --> 00:34:01,653
Oh, no.
547
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,129
But Ben, he knows all
about doing things military and--
548
00:34:05,310 --> 00:34:08,292
Oh, no. You can't, you can't. You just:
549
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,597
Oh, you can't do it.
550
00:34:10,782 --> 00:34:13,798
Captain would just as soon
rip off your stripes as look at you.
551
00:34:13,985 --> 00:34:16,375
-Well, I ain't got no stripes.
-Wait a minute.
552
00:34:16,855 --> 00:34:20,508
Now, you'll never get transfers
by waking up the captain.
553
00:34:20,692 --> 00:34:24,812
He won't understand.
Believe me, he won't.
554
00:34:25,931 --> 00:34:30,688
-Well, I'll go over it real slow.
-Wait a minute.
555
00:34:31,636 --> 00:34:34,527
Now, if you want the captain
to do you a favor...
556
00:34:34,706 --> 00:34:37,187
...you've gotta do a favor
for the captain.
557
00:34:37,375 --> 00:34:39,128
Yeah, that's it.
558
00:34:39,311 --> 00:34:42,031
Now, how would you like to do
a big favor for the captain?
559
00:34:42,213 --> 00:34:44,467
-Me?
-Come on. That's it.
560
00:34:44,649 --> 00:34:48,769
Come on. You do one for him,
he'll do one for me and I'll do one for you.
561
00:34:48,954 --> 00:34:53,108
That's the way it works out in the service.
Now you just go right on in here.
562
00:34:57,696 --> 00:35:01,622
Now do you know what this is?
563
00:35:01,967 --> 00:35:04,425
It's a kind of a big outhouse, ain't it?
564
00:35:04,803 --> 00:35:08,661
-We call it the latrine.
-La-- Latrine.
565
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,298
-Uh-huh.
-Heh. How about that?
566
00:35:11,476 --> 00:35:15,197
You might say it's the captain's hobby,
he inspects it every chance he gets.
567
00:35:15,380 --> 00:35:19,204
And when it sparkles,
why he sparkles too.
568
00:35:19,384 --> 00:35:21,433
Now, you get it all cleaned up.
569
00:35:21,620 --> 00:35:23,441
You are the officer in charge.
570
00:35:24,356 --> 00:35:25,836
In charge?
571
00:35:26,024 --> 00:35:29,347
Every last one of them, all yours.
572
00:35:29,527 --> 00:35:32,315
Golly.
573
00:35:32,497 --> 00:35:35,650
Now, you just stay right here
and don't go no place.
574
00:35:35,834 --> 00:35:40,124
-You bet. Good night.
-Good night.
575
00:35:44,309 --> 00:35:46,563
Hey, thank you.
576
00:35:51,650 --> 00:35:53,608
Well, it just goes to show you...
577
00:35:53,785 --> 00:35:57,472
...how good things happen to you
when you're least expecting them.
578
00:35:58,957 --> 00:36:02,246
Well, get started.
579
00:36:05,063 --> 00:36:08,716
WILL: I stayed officer in charge
of this here latrine all night long.
580
00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:10,687
Rubbing and scrubbing...
581
00:36:10,869 --> 00:36:14,920
...and doing my best to make things sparkle
like Sergeant King said.
582
00:36:15,106 --> 00:36:17,496
And then I stayed on
through breakfast too...
583
00:36:17,676 --> 00:36:20,658
...because I wanted to do
a right good job of it.
584
00:36:20,845 --> 00:36:23,633
So Sergeant King would be real pleased
how things come out...
585
00:36:23,815 --> 00:36:26,672
...when he come in
to look at it in the morning.
586
00:36:50,308 --> 00:36:51,856
Beautiful.
587
00:36:53,144 --> 00:36:56,126
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
588
00:36:57,382 --> 00:37:00,432
-Beautiful.
-Shucks, it ain't hard.
589
00:37:00,618 --> 00:37:02,007
Wait'll the captain sees this.
590
00:37:02,187 --> 00:37:04,475
He inspects this
like it was an operating room...
591
00:37:04,656 --> 00:37:07,080
...where somebody
was gonna cut out his heart.
592
00:37:07,258 --> 00:37:12,117
Never in your life you've seen such a guy
for sticking his head right down into things.
593
00:37:12,297 --> 00:37:16,223
-You figure he'll like what I done?
-He'll be a new man.
594
00:37:18,536 --> 00:37:22,758
Will, how would you like
to be permanent latrine orderly?
595
00:37:23,942 --> 00:37:29,302
-Permanent latrine orderly?
-PLO.
596
00:37:30,515 --> 00:37:33,497
Golly.
597
00:37:33,685 --> 00:37:35,666
The captain makes inspection
every Saturday.
598
00:37:35,854 --> 00:37:38,779
Now, if you could keep everything
as clean as it is right now...
599
00:37:38,957 --> 00:37:41,507
...the captain'll get off my back.
600
00:37:41,926 --> 00:37:44,612
Gee, I'd sure like to, sergeant...
601
00:37:44,796 --> 00:37:48,950
...but I was kind of set on helping Ben
get them transfers.
602
00:37:49,134 --> 00:37:50,614
You know, he's my buddy.
603
00:37:52,504 --> 00:37:54,689
Ain't I your buddy?
604
00:37:55,273 --> 00:37:56,457
You are.
605
00:37:56,641 --> 00:37:58,929
You help me out, I'll help Ben.
606
00:37:59,110 --> 00:38:02,092
Just don't say anything about this
outside of this room.
607
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,933
I'm going to the record section and fix it up
with a couple of friends of mine.
608
00:38:06,117 --> 00:38:07,768
Okay.
609
00:38:07,952 --> 00:38:12,140
Sergeant, don't I have to take them tests
you was talking about yesterday...
610
00:38:12,323 --> 00:38:14,042
...and get myself classified?
611
00:38:14,359 --> 00:38:18,410
No, Will, you've been classified.
612
00:38:19,564 --> 00:38:21,545
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
613
00:38:27,605 --> 00:38:30,291
If we hurry, we can catch that picture
at the base theater.
614
00:38:30,475 --> 00:38:31,864
Not me, Ben.
615
00:38:32,043 --> 00:38:36,163
-You said you ain't never seen a picture.
-I know, but I got my duty to do.
616
00:38:39,617 --> 00:38:42,542
-You're going back to that latrine again?
-You bet.
617
00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:46,043
It's against the rules for you
to be permanent in the latrine like that.
618
00:38:46,224 --> 00:38:47,476
All week you've been there.
619
00:38:47,659 --> 00:38:49,514
Sergeant King knows the rules, don't he?
620
00:38:49,694 --> 00:38:52,244
Besides, like I told you,
he's doing me and you a favor.
621
00:38:52,430 --> 00:38:56,652
-What favor, will you tell me that?
-I aim to surprise you, Ben.
622
00:38:56,835 --> 00:39:00,420
You don't go to lectures or study,
how you gonna get classified?
623
00:39:00,605 --> 00:39:02,620
Sergeant King says I'm already that way.
624
00:39:02,807 --> 00:39:07,131
-Are you crazy? Don't you--?
-Now, don't take on so, Ben.
625
00:39:07,312 --> 00:39:10,999
Just wait and see what the captain says
after he makes his inspection tomorrow.
626
00:39:11,182 --> 00:39:13,231
Why you take them faucets, for instance.
627
00:39:13,418 --> 00:39:17,208
I polished them so hard,
they don't say hot and cold no more.
628
00:39:18,923 --> 00:39:20,540
What?
629
00:39:26,097 --> 00:39:27,679
At ease.
630
00:39:31,836 --> 00:39:35,421
I think you'll be very pleased here, sir.
631
00:39:35,607 --> 00:39:37,292
Attention.
632
00:39:42,247 --> 00:39:44,603
Latrine ready for inspection, sir.
633
00:39:48,253 --> 00:39:52,612
This is incredible.
This is absolutely incredible.
634
00:39:52,790 --> 00:39:54,509
I am pleased.
635
00:39:54,692 --> 00:39:55,876
No.
636
00:39:56,060 --> 00:39:58,041
-No, I am happy.
-Thank you, sir. Thank you.
637
00:39:58,229 --> 00:40:01,086
-You the one on latrine duty today, private?
-Yes, sir. All week, sir.
638
00:40:01,266 --> 00:40:03,417
-Ahem, ahem.
-You are to be congratulated.
639
00:40:03,601 --> 00:40:05,718
Just look at--
640
00:40:06,571 --> 00:40:08,188
What did you say?
641
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:10,825
Me? Nothing, sir.
642
00:40:11,409 --> 00:40:13,264
-Something about all week.
-Uh--
643
00:40:13,912 --> 00:40:18,066
Well, I done my best in one day,
but just to be fair with you...
644
00:40:18,249 --> 00:40:20,969
...it took me a week
of scrubbing to get it like this.
645
00:40:21,152 --> 00:40:23,269
Is this man being punished
for some infraction?
646
00:40:23,454 --> 00:40:27,471
-Oh, no, sir. No, sir.
-Oh, heck no, sir. I'm PLO.
647
00:40:28,693 --> 00:40:31,447
-You're what?
-Permanent latrine orderly.
648
00:40:31,629 --> 00:40:33,416
Stockdale.
649
00:40:33,598 --> 00:40:38,082
Oh, but don't credit me none though, sir.
It's all Sergeant King's doings.
650
00:40:38,269 --> 00:40:42,195
He even got it fixed up
so I don't even have to get classified.
651
00:40:42,373 --> 00:40:44,661
-Sir, l--
-What? That's impossible.
652
00:40:44,842 --> 00:40:48,268
Oh, no, sir.
He fixed it with some friends of his.
653
00:40:50,315 --> 00:40:53,035
Yes, sir.
It was him got me to work so hard...
654
00:40:53,217 --> 00:40:55,175
...telling me how latrines
is your hobby...
655
00:40:55,353 --> 00:40:58,278
...and sticking your head
down into things and all.
656
00:41:01,526 --> 00:41:06,852
-Sir, I can explain every--
-Now, don't you be bashful, sergeant.
657
00:41:08,466 --> 00:41:12,153
Sir, I been wanting to tell you
about what a good sergeant he is.
658
00:41:12,337 --> 00:41:15,353
Oh, he solves our problems for us...
659
00:41:15,540 --> 00:41:19,830
...and helps us out on our difficult days
in military service.
660
00:41:20,011 --> 00:41:23,698
And I guess that he's
about the best dang sergeant there is...
661
00:41:23,881 --> 00:41:27,170
...in the whole danged Air Force.
662
00:41:31,956 --> 00:41:35,677
Sir, you really ought to get up
off of his back.
663
00:41:43,768 --> 00:41:46,420
How long have you been a sergeant?
664
00:41:47,805 --> 00:41:50,764
-Well, sir, l-- Ahem.
-Speak up.
665
00:41:51,542 --> 00:41:53,432
Sixteen years, sir.
666
00:41:53,611 --> 00:41:56,695
And how long do you expect
to remain a sergeant?
667
00:41:57,181 --> 00:41:58,195
Twelve years.
668
00:41:58,383 --> 00:42:01,308
You will remain a sergeant
exactly one week. One week.
669
00:42:01,486 --> 00:42:04,445
Unless this man completes
the entire classification process...
670
00:42:04,622 --> 00:42:07,604
...and is shipped out with the group
he came in with. Understand?
671
00:42:07,792 --> 00:42:10,512
Unless this man is out of here
by the end of the week...
672
00:42:10,695 --> 00:42:14,951
...you will not be in charge of this barracks,
you will not be a sergeant...
673
00:42:15,133 --> 00:42:19,082
...you will in all probability
be a permanent latrine orderly.
674
00:42:19,270 --> 00:42:22,058
PLO.
675
00:42:24,509 --> 00:42:26,729
This is not your fault, private.
676
00:42:27,178 --> 00:42:29,261
You've done a fine job.
677
00:42:30,114 --> 00:42:34,541
I have never seen such a clean latrine
in my entire career.
678
00:42:34,952 --> 00:42:36,034
Thank you, sir.
679
00:42:38,790 --> 00:42:41,908
It was my aim to get it just as clean
as that operating room...
680
00:42:42,093 --> 00:42:45,314
...where they're fixing
to cut out your heart!
681
00:42:51,035 --> 00:42:53,425
You forgot to ask him
about the transfers.
682
00:42:55,406 --> 00:42:59,127
What happened? What did you do it for?
683
00:42:59,744 --> 00:43:02,760
Heck, I couldn't see no sense
in me getting all the credit.
684
00:43:07,251 --> 00:43:10,608
We've gotta get you classified right away.
We gotta get you out of here.
685
00:43:11,722 --> 00:43:14,806
You don't want me around no more?
I thought we was buddies.
686
00:43:15,693 --> 00:43:18,174
It ain't what I want,
it's what the captain wants.
687
00:43:18,362 --> 00:43:20,343
Now, we gotta get you classified
in a hurry.
688
00:43:20,531 --> 00:43:24,389
You're gonna have to take tests and you're
going to have to talk to a lot of people.
689
00:43:24,569 --> 00:43:27,323
And you're going to have to work
real hard.
690
00:43:28,272 --> 00:43:30,662
Will it help Ben and me
get them transfers?
691
00:43:30,842 --> 00:43:35,326
Well, I guarantee you, wherever you go,
they'll bust a gut to get you transferred.
692
00:43:35,513 --> 00:43:39,303
Well, I'll work hard all right,
but I don't know.
693
00:43:39,484 --> 00:43:42,204
The last test I took
was close on to five years ago...
694
00:43:42,386 --> 00:43:44,139
...and that was one of them tests...
695
00:43:44,322 --> 00:43:46,837
...where you try this fella's toothpaste
for 10 days...
696
00:43:47,024 --> 00:43:49,983
...and see if your teeth don't get brighter.
697
00:43:50,361 --> 00:43:52,319
And I failed.
698
00:43:53,364 --> 00:43:55,686
You been admiring this watch of mine,
haven't you?
699
00:43:55,867 --> 00:43:59,020
I sure have, sergeant.
That there's the prettiest watch I ever seen.
700
00:43:59,203 --> 00:44:02,526
You get shipped out of here
by Saturday morning like the captain said...
701
00:44:02,707 --> 00:44:04,096
...and it's yours.
702
00:44:04,275 --> 00:44:05,664
-Mine?
-Yours.
703
00:44:05,843 --> 00:44:08,961
Golly.
704
00:44:09,147 --> 00:44:11,662
-Now you'll work real hard, right?
-Right.
705
00:44:11,849 --> 00:44:13,602
-And not waste any time?
-No, sir.
706
00:44:13,784 --> 00:44:14,798
Good boy.
707
00:44:14,986 --> 00:44:17,536
Now first thing Monday morning,
we start classification.
708
00:44:17,722 --> 00:44:21,204
You stay right here around the barracks
and get a lot of rest...
709
00:44:21,392 --> 00:44:24,283
...and relax your head.
710
00:44:24,462 --> 00:44:30,118
I'm going down to the testing area
and see if I can borrow some of the tests.
711
00:44:30,301 --> 00:44:31,986
Okay.
712
00:44:33,638 --> 00:44:37,029
Tell them I'll give them back
just like I did the toothpaste.
713
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,699
WILL: This place where they give us
the tests was really something.
714
00:44:46,884 --> 00:44:50,275
They had this great big building,
full of doctors, nurses and officers.
715
00:44:53,524 --> 00:44:56,449
All of them walking in and out
and around real quickety-quick...
716
00:44:56,627 --> 00:44:58,585
...and not smiling at nobody.
717
00:44:58,763 --> 00:45:01,847
And then there was this place
something like a schoolroom...
718
00:45:02,033 --> 00:45:05,083
...where they give us
the tests we had to write out.
719
00:45:05,269 --> 00:45:07,454
Time's up, pal.
720
00:45:15,746 --> 00:45:18,136
It was right friendly of you
to wait for me.
721
00:45:18,316 --> 00:45:20,035
Thank you.
722
00:45:21,852 --> 00:45:25,334
-How'd you think you did, Will?
-Well, them printed tests they give us...
723
00:45:25,523 --> 00:45:28,880
...they was exactly like the ones
that you borrowed--
724
00:45:31,095 --> 00:45:32,347
Only what?
725
00:45:32,530 --> 00:45:35,421
Only you spent so much time
drumming the answers into me...
726
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:40,084
...we ought to have spent a little more
on the questions they joint up with.
727
00:45:45,042 --> 00:45:49,230
Now, you just sit right down here
and wait.
728
00:46:08,332 --> 00:46:10,950
Come on, Will, the corporal's waiting.
729
00:46:17,475 --> 00:46:20,662
Here he is, corporal.
Awfully sorry to keep you waiting.
730
00:46:26,350 --> 00:46:29,332
What we do here, private,
is to evaluate your manual dexterity...
731
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:33,810
...on a time scale
in relation to digital visual coordination.
732
00:46:33,991 --> 00:46:37,314
Two irregular steel links
which can be interconnected thusly.
733
00:46:37,495 --> 00:46:40,215
I separate them, I join them.
734
00:46:40,398 --> 00:46:42,618
It will be your task,
when I give the signal...
735
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:45,691
...to place the two links
in an interconnected relationship...
736
00:46:45,870 --> 00:46:48,328
...I have just demonstrated.
737
00:46:54,845 --> 00:46:56,268
Uh....
738
00:46:56,781 --> 00:46:58,033
I put them together?
739
00:47:00,051 --> 00:47:02,509
That's right, you put them together.
740
00:47:02,687 --> 00:47:05,168
I'll time you
and three minutes is passing.
741
00:47:05,356 --> 00:47:08,645
Now, whatever you do,
don't get nervous.
742
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,218
Ready. Go.
743
00:47:16,434 --> 00:47:18,085
There you go.
744
00:47:19,103 --> 00:47:21,061
Attaboy.
745
00:47:22,673 --> 00:47:25,461
-Put them together.
-Sergeant, please.
746
00:47:25,643 --> 00:47:27,760
Nobody ever does this
in less than two minutes.
747
00:47:27,945 --> 00:47:29,994
You're not even supposed to be in here.
748
00:47:30,181 --> 00:47:33,538
This is a special case. He has to go out
with the group he came in with.
749
00:47:33,718 --> 00:47:36,336
-It's is a very difficult test.
-I couldn't do it myself.
750
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:39,274
-What are you talking about?
-I want you to get out of here.
751
00:47:39,457 --> 00:47:42,678
-I'd just like to see you try to do it.
-This is my department.
752
00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:45,011
-He's my department.
-That's my door. Get out.
753
00:47:45,196 --> 00:47:47,086
-Get out right this minute.
-Throw me out.
754
00:47:47,264 --> 00:47:49,518
You're not supposed to be here.
This is my watch--
755
00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:52,158
-All right, then watch your watch--
-I'm done.
756
00:47:52,336 --> 00:47:53,350
Stop the watch.
757
00:47:55,906 --> 00:47:59,764
-Look. Look at that.
-He put them together, didn't he?
758
00:48:00,778 --> 00:48:03,498
Sergeant! Sergeant!
759
00:48:03,681 --> 00:48:07,129
What's the fuss about? You said,
"Put them together," he put them together.
760
00:48:07,318 --> 00:48:10,402
Look what he did, for Pete's sake.
How am I gonna mark him on that?
761
00:48:10,588 --> 00:48:13,672
You're supposed to be grading him on this.
Can't you do that?
762
00:48:13,858 --> 00:48:17,181
I'm supposed to mark it down
whether they put it back together or not...
763
00:48:17,361 --> 00:48:20,946
...and there ain't supposed to be
but one way of doing it and he didn't do it.
764
00:48:21,132 --> 00:48:23,147
How you gonna mark him
on a thing like that?
765
00:48:23,334 --> 00:48:26,623
Who do you think's gonna pay for these?
Sixteen dollars, they cost.
766
00:48:26,804 --> 00:48:28,785
-lf you think I'm gonna pay $16--
-Corporal!
767
00:48:28,973 --> 00:48:29,987
Sixteen lousy dollars!
768
00:48:30,174 --> 00:48:33,656
Corporal, I'll be glad to pay
the 16 lousy dollars.
769
00:48:33,844 --> 00:48:35,563
-You will?
-lf he passed the test.
770
00:48:35,746 --> 00:48:38,500
He did it wrong.
He was supposed to do it a certain way.
771
00:48:38,682 --> 00:48:41,664
Will, will you step outside
for a minute, have a smoke.
772
00:48:45,956 --> 00:48:48,210
Now, corporal,
let's look at this thing logically.
773
00:48:48,392 --> 00:48:51,317
You need money
and I need him to pass the test.
774
00:48:51,495 --> 00:48:55,353
But he did do it completely wrong.
775
00:49:00,037 --> 00:49:02,825
-Ben?
-Will.
776
00:49:03,007 --> 00:49:04,521
[CHUCKLES]
777
00:49:05,009 --> 00:49:07,559
I ain't seen you all day.
You been in there classifying?
778
00:49:07,745 --> 00:49:09,726
-Yeah.
-Me too. Find out where you're going?
779
00:49:09,914 --> 00:49:11,963
Sergeant King says
maybe gunnery school.
780
00:49:12,149 --> 00:49:14,403
That's where I'm going too
if I pass the eye test.
781
00:49:14,585 --> 00:49:17,373
-How about that?
-Yeah, how about that?
782
00:49:17,555 --> 00:49:21,276
Oh, Ben, you ain't still sad
about not being in the infantry?
783
00:49:21,459 --> 00:49:23,280
The captain didn't even read my letter.
784
00:49:23,461 --> 00:49:25,646
And that plan of yours
sure didn't work so good.
785
00:49:25,830 --> 00:49:28,288
I tried to ask the psychiatrist
if he could fix me up.
786
00:49:28,466 --> 00:49:30,754
-Yeah, what'd he say?
-He didn't say nothing.
787
00:49:30,935 --> 00:49:33,018
I don't think he understands so good.
788
00:49:33,471 --> 00:49:36,328
I'm just stuck in the Air Force, that's all.
789
00:49:37,341 --> 00:49:40,528
Hey, Ben, maybe it's the Air Force
that's the real fighters...
790
00:49:40,711 --> 00:49:42,532
...and the infantry's just the helpers.
791
00:49:42,713 --> 00:49:43,727
Never.
792
00:49:44,148 --> 00:49:46,402
Well, Ben, all you can do
is look at it that way.
793
00:49:46,584 --> 00:49:49,475
No. Wait'll my brothers find out. Airman.
794
00:49:50,221 --> 00:49:51,906
Private.
795
00:49:52,089 --> 00:49:54,912
What kind of rowdydow is this?
Pick up that cap.
796
00:49:55,092 --> 00:49:56,106
Yes, sir.
797
00:49:56,293 --> 00:49:59,081
-Is that a way to treat government property?
-No, sir, ma'am.
798
00:49:59,263 --> 00:50:02,017
We're excited because we're
maybe going to the same school.
799
00:50:02,199 --> 00:50:04,384
That's no excuse for--
800
00:50:12,142 --> 00:50:14,362
What's the matter with this one?
801
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:18,836
-Have you been drinking?
-No, no, sir.
802
00:50:19,016 --> 00:50:21,236
Get at attention, Will.
803
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:24,774
We're sending this to school?
804
00:50:25,322 --> 00:50:28,873
Yes, sir, ma'am. If he passes the eye test,
he'll be going to gunnery school.
805
00:50:29,493 --> 00:50:32,213
As what? A target?
806
00:50:33,531 --> 00:50:34,681
No, sir, ma'am.
807
00:50:35,432 --> 00:50:38,357
Let's have no more rowdydow, understand?
No more.
808
00:50:38,536 --> 00:50:40,926
Yes, sir. Ma'am.
809
00:50:56,554 --> 00:50:58,603
What's the matter with you, anyhow?
810
00:50:58,789 --> 00:51:01,976
Don't you know enough
to come to attention and salute an officer?
811
00:51:02,593 --> 00:51:04,107
-She was a woman.
-Sure she was.
812
00:51:04,295 --> 00:51:06,480
Ain't you ever heard
of the Women's Air Force?
813
00:51:06,664 --> 00:51:09,214
You mean they got one too?
814
00:51:09,767 --> 00:51:11,748
Sure.
815
00:51:12,002 --> 00:51:14,984
-Against ours?
-No, Will. They're with us.
816
00:51:15,172 --> 00:51:16,959
They're with us 100 percent.
817
00:51:17,141 --> 00:51:19,190
-We got to salute them?
-The officers, we do.
818
00:51:19,376 --> 00:51:22,335
Didn't you hear that lecture
about military courtesy?
819
00:51:22,513 --> 00:51:25,904
I'll be dogged.
I never heard of saluting no woman before.
820
00:51:26,083 --> 00:51:27,938
She ain't a woman, she's a captain.
821
00:51:28,118 --> 00:51:30,872
I seen a captain there
so I come to attention and saluted.
822
00:51:31,055 --> 00:51:32,069
A captain, that's all.
823
00:51:32,256 --> 00:51:34,737
-A woman captain.
-A "captain" captain.
824
00:51:34,925 --> 00:51:37,611
By dog,
don't you understand nothing, Will?
825
00:51:37,795 --> 00:51:40,310
When you're in uniform,
you ain't supposed to notice...
826
00:51:40,497 --> 00:51:42,751
...whether a person is a man or a woman
or what.
827
00:51:42,933 --> 00:51:46,984
A captain's a captain, a major's a major
and a general's a general.
828
00:51:47,938 --> 00:51:52,558
Ben, you mean to tell me that you
didn't notice that she was a woman?
829
00:51:52,743 --> 00:51:55,327
A captain, that's all I seen.
830
00:51:55,512 --> 00:51:59,233
Well, dog it, Ben,
I knew she was a woman right off.
831
00:52:00,384 --> 00:52:04,470
Honest, Will, sometimes I wonder
how come they took you in the draft at all.
832
00:52:05,422 --> 00:52:06,879
Come on, Will.
833
00:52:07,057 --> 00:52:09,106
You too, Whitledge.
834
00:52:19,870 --> 00:52:23,796
Well, Will, it looks like you're just liable
to get classified after all.
835
00:52:23,974 --> 00:52:27,400
Just shows you
what the Air Force has come down to.
836
00:52:27,578 --> 00:52:30,731
-This the fella you want? Whitledge?
-Yeah.
837
00:52:30,914 --> 00:52:33,031
Psychiatrist says
he has a secondary anxiety...
838
00:52:33,217 --> 00:52:36,904
...with inferiority
and systematized delusions of persecution.
839
00:52:37,688 --> 00:52:38,838
I ain't surprised.
840
00:52:39,023 --> 00:52:42,414
Recommends he be considered
to be transferred to the infantry.
841
00:52:42,893 --> 00:52:44,214
The infantry?
842
00:52:44,395 --> 00:52:47,047
Don't get excited.
He didn't say you have to.
843
00:52:47,231 --> 00:52:51,521
Well, yeah, but that's what
Ben's always been wanting, corporal.
844
00:52:51,702 --> 00:52:56,061
-Just you tell me what I have to do.
-Well, here. Fill this out.
845
00:52:56,240 --> 00:52:59,165
When he's finished, buck it through
to the colonel for approval.
846
00:52:59,343 --> 00:53:00,960
If he's crazy enough to want it.
847
00:53:01,145 --> 00:53:02,898
How about that, Ben? You made it.
848
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:04,970
Just wait'll my brothers hear about this.
849
00:53:05,149 --> 00:53:08,165
-Stockdale?
-Yeah.
850
00:53:10,988 --> 00:53:13,412
Okay, psychiatrist.
851
00:53:13,590 --> 00:53:15,445
Oh, Lord, psychiatrist.
852
00:53:16,927 --> 00:53:18,942
Now, Will, listen carefully.
853
00:53:20,330 --> 00:53:23,653
The psychiatrist test is one
where I couldn't get copies of questions...
854
00:53:23,834 --> 00:53:25,086
...because there ain't any.
855
00:53:25,269 --> 00:53:28,023
The doctor asks you
whatever happens to pop into his head.
856
00:53:28,205 --> 00:53:32,063
-So keep your wits about you.
-I'll try.
857
00:53:32,242 --> 00:53:33,824
Hey. Hey.
858
00:53:34,011 --> 00:53:37,562
Hey, maybe he'll give me
a transfer too, huh, Ben?
859
00:53:37,748 --> 00:53:41,196
He'll ask you things like
what do you dream?
860
00:53:41,385 --> 00:53:42,399
Okay.
861
00:53:42,586 --> 00:53:45,374
Hey, maybe he'll give me a transfer too,
huh, Ben?
862
00:53:45,556 --> 00:53:46,877
Sure, Will.
863
00:53:47,991 --> 00:53:52,441
-The psychiatrist is waiting, Stockdale.
-Coming.
864
00:53:54,932 --> 00:53:55,980
Wait a minute.
865
00:53:56,166 --> 00:53:59,148
The safest thing I guess is
just say that you never dream at all.
866
00:53:59,336 --> 00:54:02,955
-Okay. See you later, Ben.
-No dreams.
867
00:54:11,115 --> 00:54:12,663
Sergeant?
868
00:54:12,850 --> 00:54:14,330
Do you think he can?
869
00:54:14,518 --> 00:54:15,566
Can what?
870
00:54:15,753 --> 00:54:18,712
Get transferred too.
Maybe you could talk to the doctor.
871
00:54:18,889 --> 00:54:22,110
Now, don't you complicate things.
872
00:54:34,438 --> 00:54:37,090
I never have no dreams at all.
873
00:54:44,047 --> 00:54:47,529
-Where are you from, Stockdale?
-Georgia.
874
00:54:48,452 --> 00:54:50,205
That's not much of a state, is it?
875
00:54:50,387 --> 00:54:52,868
Well, I don't live all over the state.
876
00:54:53,056 --> 00:54:56,345
I just live in this one little place in it.
877
00:54:58,028 --> 00:55:02,921
That's where Tobacco Road is. Georgia.
878
00:55:04,168 --> 00:55:06,285
Not around my section.
879
00:55:06,470 --> 00:55:08,724
Maybe you're from a different part
than me.
880
00:55:08,906 --> 00:55:10,523
[SIGHS]
881
00:55:10,874 --> 00:55:14,732
I've never been there. What's more,
I don't think I would ever wanna go there.
882
00:55:14,912 --> 00:55:16,392
What's your reaction to that?
883
00:55:16,580 --> 00:55:18,162
Well, I don't know--
884
00:55:18,348 --> 00:55:21,899
I would rather live in the rottenest pigsty
in Tennessee or Alabama...
885
00:55:22,085 --> 00:55:25,203
...than the fanciest mansion
in all of Georgia.
886
00:55:27,457 --> 00:55:29,176
How about that?
887
00:55:29,359 --> 00:55:34,150
Well, sir, I think
where you wanna live is your business.
888
00:55:38,268 --> 00:55:42,422
You don't mind if someone says
something bad about Georgia?
889
00:55:42,606 --> 00:55:45,326
I ain't heard nobody
say nothing bad about Georgia.
890
00:55:45,509 --> 00:55:48,024
Well, what do you think
I've been saying?
891
00:55:48,212 --> 00:55:51,296
Well, to tell you the truth, sir...
892
00:55:51,481 --> 00:55:54,804
...I ain't been able
to get too much sense out of it.
893
00:55:57,788 --> 00:56:01,270
-Don't you know?
-Now, watch your steps, young man.
894
00:56:02,693 --> 00:56:05,117
Psychiatrists
call this attitude of yours resistance.
895
00:56:05,295 --> 00:56:06,547
-You do?
-Yes.
896
00:56:06,730 --> 00:56:10,121
You sense that this interview
is a threat to your security.
897
00:56:10,300 --> 00:56:14,226
-You feel yourself in danger.
-Well, kind of I do.
898
00:56:14,404 --> 00:56:16,021
If I don't get myself classified...
899
00:56:16,206 --> 00:56:19,097
...Sergeant King,
he won't give me the wristwatch.
900
00:56:22,613 --> 00:56:24,195
He won't.
901
00:56:24,381 --> 00:56:29,172
He says I only get it
if I'm classified inside a week.
902
00:56:31,521 --> 00:56:36,107
Do you get along all right
with your mother?
903
00:56:36,293 --> 00:56:38,342
No, sir, I can't hardly say that I do.
904
00:56:38,528 --> 00:56:42,477
Oh, I see. She's very strict with you.
She's always hovering over you. Hmm?
905
00:56:42,666 --> 00:56:44,954
-No, sir, just the opposite.
-She's never there?
906
00:56:45,135 --> 00:56:48,526
-That's right.
-And you resent this neglect, don't you?
907
00:56:48,705 --> 00:56:51,789
-Well, no, sir, I don't resent nothing.
-Oh, come now, son.
908
00:56:51,975 --> 00:56:54,991
Now, don't be bashful,
that's a common situation.
909
00:56:55,178 --> 00:56:58,296
-Does she beat you?
-No.
910
00:56:58,482 --> 00:56:59,769
[CHUCKLES]
911
00:56:59,950 --> 00:57:01,669
Oh, so defensive.
912
00:57:01,852 --> 00:57:04,640
Well, it's not easy
to talk about your mother, is it?
913
00:57:04,821 --> 00:57:07,075
No, sir.
See, she died when I was born.
914
00:57:16,533 --> 00:57:18,855
You could've told me that sooner.
915
00:57:20,971 --> 00:57:23,225
Do you hate your mama?
916
00:57:24,374 --> 00:57:26,764
I figured as how you said it
was so common.
917
00:57:26,944 --> 00:57:29,596
I do not hate my mother.
918
00:57:30,247 --> 00:57:32,398
I should hope not.
919
00:57:33,850 --> 00:57:36,900
Does she beat you or something?
920
00:57:39,323 --> 00:57:40,371
This is a transference.
921
00:57:40,557 --> 00:57:44,779
You're taking your stored up antagonisms
and loosing them in my direction.
922
00:57:45,562 --> 00:57:48,715
Oh, transference.
It happens every day.
923
00:57:48,899 --> 00:57:52,791
-It does? To the infantry?
-Yeah--
924
00:57:53,403 --> 00:57:54,417
The infantry?
925
00:57:54,604 --> 00:57:57,529
You'd give Ben a transfer
and I wish you'd give me one too.
926
00:57:57,708 --> 00:58:01,634
-Because I'd sure love to go along with him.
-Now stop.
927
00:58:03,447 --> 00:58:06,133
Now, there are a few more topics
that we have to cover.
928
00:58:06,316 --> 00:58:09,571
We will not talk about transfers
and we will not talk about my mother.
929
00:58:09,753 --> 00:58:12,678
We will talk about
what I want to talk about.
930
00:58:13,390 --> 00:58:15,143
Do you understand?
931
00:58:15,392 --> 00:58:17,009
Yes, sir.
932
00:58:18,795 --> 00:58:20,412
Now, then.
933
00:58:20,597 --> 00:58:24,045
-Your father? Living?
-Yes, sir.
934
00:58:24,501 --> 00:58:25,788
Oh.
935
00:58:25,969 --> 00:58:29,019
-Do you get along with him okay?
-Yes, sir.
936
00:58:29,206 --> 00:58:32,654
-Does he ever beat you?
-Ha-ha. You bet.
937
00:58:32,843 --> 00:58:34,698
-Hard?
-And how.
938
00:58:34,878 --> 00:58:37,234
Boy, there ain't nobody
can beat like my pa can.
939
00:58:39,016 --> 00:58:41,338
So this is where
the antagonism comes from.
940
00:58:41,518 --> 00:58:42,532
[CHUCKLES]
941
00:58:42,719 --> 00:58:44,267
You hate your father, don't you?
942
00:58:45,555 --> 00:58:47,410
No.
943
00:58:47,724 --> 00:58:50,046
Hey, I got an uncle I hate, though.
944
00:58:50,227 --> 00:58:53,948
Every time he comes out to the house,
he's wanting to wrestle with the mule...
945
00:58:54,131 --> 00:58:58,888
...and the mule gets all wore out
and he gets all wore out.
946
00:58:59,770 --> 00:59:02,729
Well, I don't really hate him, though.
947
00:59:02,906 --> 00:59:05,922
It's just that I ain't exactly partial to him.
948
00:59:06,843 --> 00:59:09,631
Did I ask you about your uncle?
949
00:59:10,447 --> 00:59:12,701
I thought
you wanted to talk about hating people.
950
00:59:12,883 --> 00:59:14,636
[SIGHS]
951
00:59:18,121 --> 00:59:21,080
Now. Now then.
952
00:59:22,225 --> 00:59:24,740
Um.... Girls.
953
00:59:24,928 --> 00:59:27,648
-How do you like girls?
-What girls is that, sir?
954
00:59:27,831 --> 00:59:32,349
Well, just girls. Just any girls.
955
00:59:32,536 --> 00:59:36,986
Well, I don't like just any girls.
956
00:59:37,174 --> 00:59:38,563
There's this girl back home...
957
00:59:38,742 --> 00:59:41,360
...that ain't got hair no longer
than a hound dog's and--
958
00:59:41,545 --> 00:59:44,095
Oh, no.
959
00:59:46,249 --> 00:59:48,571
When I say "girls,"
I don't mean any specific girl.
960
00:59:48,752 --> 00:59:53,372
I just mean, well, girls in general,
you know? Heh. Heh.
961
00:59:53,557 --> 00:59:55,174
Women. Uh--
962
00:59:56,393 --> 00:59:58,044
Sex.
963
00:59:59,062 --> 01:00:02,510
Didn't that father of yours
ever sit you down and have a talk with you?
964
01:00:02,999 --> 01:00:04,820
Well, sure he did.
965
01:00:05,001 --> 01:00:06,652
Well?
966
01:00:07,504 --> 01:00:09,428
Well, what?
967
01:00:09,606 --> 01:00:12,429
Well, what did he say?
968
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:19,735
[LAUGHS]
969
01:00:19,916 --> 01:00:24,275
Well, there's this one
about these two traveling salesmen.
970
01:00:24,454 --> 01:00:25,911
[BOTH LAUGH]
971
01:00:26,089 --> 01:00:29,173
And their car breaks down
in the middle of this terrible storm.
972
01:00:29,359 --> 01:00:31,613
-Stop.
-They come running up to this farmhouse...
973
01:00:31,795 --> 01:00:33,878
...where this farmer's
got these 14 daughters.
974
01:00:34,064 --> 01:00:35,681
-Stop.
-Uh--
975
01:00:36,666 --> 01:00:38,783
Did you heared it already?
976
01:00:39,503 --> 01:00:41,586
I did not heared it already.
977
01:00:41,771 --> 01:00:44,525
What'd you stop me for?
It's a real knee-slapper.
978
01:00:44,708 --> 01:00:48,031
See, these 14 daughters was all studying
to become trombone players--
979
01:00:48,211 --> 01:00:49,828
Here, look. You go. You're through.
980
01:00:50,013 --> 01:00:53,461
You're perfectly normal. Just go.
Goodbye. Go. Goodbye.
981
01:00:59,656 --> 01:01:01,113
Excuse me for saying it, sir...
982
01:01:01,291 --> 01:01:04,739
...but I don't think a fella your age
would be so confused about it all...
983
01:01:04,928 --> 01:01:07,478
...if you went out
and seen some girls once in a while.
984
01:01:08,198 --> 01:01:10,713
Look, out. Out!
985
01:01:11,368 --> 01:01:13,019
Yes, sir.
986
01:01:18,208 --> 01:01:20,689
Fella's in pretty bad shape.
987
01:01:25,448 --> 01:01:28,373
-Where's Sergeant King?
-He said he'd meet you in the mess hall.
988
01:01:28,552 --> 01:01:31,102
Something about he couldn't
stand the strain on an empty stomach.
989
01:01:31,288 --> 01:01:33,439
Oh. Thank you.
990
01:01:34,090 --> 01:01:35,911
-Stockdale, Will.
-Here.
991
01:01:36,092 --> 01:01:37,572
Eye test in here.
992
01:01:37,761 --> 01:01:39,776
I can't.
I gotta tell Sergeant King that--
993
01:01:39,963 --> 01:01:42,444
Get in there, Stockdale, on the double.
994
01:01:43,934 --> 01:01:47,690
Yes, sir. Just be an extra surprise for him.
995
01:01:53,276 --> 01:01:55,666
What's keeping him so long?
996
01:01:55,845 --> 01:01:59,236
He's probably telling the psychiatrist
how he dreams about his pet horse.
997
01:01:59,416 --> 01:02:01,374
Oh, cut it out, will you?
998
01:02:01,551 --> 01:02:04,339
Ain't I got enough, sweating this out?
999
01:02:04,721 --> 01:02:07,339
Sergeant, can I have
my application a minute?
1000
01:02:08,758 --> 01:02:11,444
I got a feeling I'm doomed. I'm doomed.
1001
01:02:11,628 --> 01:02:13,449
Of all the....
1002
01:02:16,132 --> 01:02:19,649
-What the heck you doing that for?
-Guess I changed my mind.
1003
01:02:19,836 --> 01:02:23,318
This whole thing started
from you hollering to get into the infantry.
1004
01:02:23,506 --> 01:02:25,430
I changed my mind.
1005
01:02:26,009 --> 01:02:28,695
Why do I get all the nuts?
1006
01:02:31,248 --> 01:02:32,262
There he is.
1007
01:02:33,116 --> 01:02:35,165
Hey, Will, come here, will you?
1008
01:02:35,352 --> 01:02:37,606
Sorry to keep y'all waiting so long.
Pete, Irving.
1009
01:02:37,787 --> 01:02:41,269
Well, what happened, boy?
How'd you do? Where's the form?
1010
01:02:41,925 --> 01:02:43,280
Well, let me see it.
1011
01:02:43,460 --> 01:02:45,782
I wanna see what he had....
1012
01:02:49,366 --> 01:02:52,553
He passed. He got through.
1013
01:02:53,236 --> 01:02:55,091
He's normal.
1014
01:02:55,472 --> 01:02:57,362
Attaboy.
1015
01:02:57,540 --> 01:03:00,966
Yes, sir, you ought to see the way
Will breezes through these tests.
1016
01:03:01,144 --> 01:03:03,500
One, two, three. Bim-bam-boom.
1017
01:03:03,980 --> 01:03:07,906
Tomorrow morning, I'm gonna
run him down to the little old eye test...
1018
01:03:08,084 --> 01:03:10,702
...and by tomorrow night,
he's out of here.
1019
01:03:11,087 --> 01:03:15,207
Gunnery school, well, Will boy?
With your eyesight.
1020
01:03:15,825 --> 01:03:20,445
This boy told me that he could shoot the
eye out of a turkey at a 100 yards?
1021
01:03:21,431 --> 01:03:22,979
I already took the eye test.
1022
01:03:23,633 --> 01:03:26,524
Uh.... What?
1023
01:03:29,205 --> 01:03:30,992
Fella grabbed me on the way over here.
1024
01:03:31,808 --> 01:03:34,961
Well, what happened?
Where's the form? Papers?
1025
01:03:35,812 --> 01:03:39,329
Fella back there kept the papers,
on account I was the last test.
1026
01:03:40,083 --> 01:03:42,837
He said it'd all come out
on the bulletin board tomorrow.
1027
01:03:43,186 --> 01:03:45,576
Well, how'd you do?
You passed, didn't you?
1028
01:03:46,189 --> 01:03:47,806
-Easy, huh?
-I don't know.
1029
01:03:47,991 --> 01:03:50,882
He seemed kind of angry
most of the time.
1030
01:03:51,594 --> 01:03:53,552
What made you think he was angry?
1031
01:03:58,601 --> 01:04:00,218
Well, he got sort of fussed...
1032
01:04:00,403 --> 01:04:03,760
...when I was reading this here sign
they had on the wall.
1033
01:04:03,940 --> 01:04:06,364
And that was right hard at first...
1034
01:04:06,543 --> 01:04:09,696
...because they was
real peculiar words like:
1035
01:04:09,879 --> 01:04:13,430
Ip, gnxl and buglump.
1036
01:04:17,287 --> 01:04:20,906
You were supposed to read them letters
one at a time.
1037
01:04:21,324 --> 01:04:23,874
Didn't make much sense
that way neither.
1038
01:04:25,128 --> 01:04:27,313
Hey, hey, hey.
1039
01:04:27,497 --> 01:04:31,355
Take a look at the colonel and
the wife captain that come in the base.
1040
01:04:32,502 --> 01:04:34,687
Boy, is she stacked.
1041
01:04:34,871 --> 01:04:37,887
IRVING: Women officers,
that's one thing I sure don't cotton to.
1042
01:04:38,074 --> 01:04:39,361
What about you, Stockdale?
1043
01:04:39,542 --> 01:04:42,228
-What do you think of them?
-I ain't never seen one.
1044
01:04:42,412 --> 01:04:43,869
Ain't you got eyes?
1045
01:04:46,349 --> 01:04:50,799
Will, I want you to turn around
very slowly...
1046
01:04:50,987 --> 01:04:56,847
...and look very carefully this time
and tell me exactly what you see.
1047
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:08,784
I see a colonel....
1048
01:05:08,972 --> 01:05:10,623
Yeah.
1049
01:05:11,341 --> 01:05:13,060
And a captain.
1050
01:05:13,576 --> 01:05:14,624
That's all.
1051
01:05:15,779 --> 01:05:17,566
And the captain's a woman,
isn't she?
1052
01:05:18,214 --> 01:05:23,608
I don't notice
whether it's a man or a woman or what.
1053
01:05:23,987 --> 01:05:27,310
All I see is a captain. That's all.
1054
01:05:28,258 --> 01:05:29,738
Yeah.
1055
01:05:31,461 --> 01:05:33,646
Oh, no, no, no.
1056
01:05:34,664 --> 01:05:37,555
What's the matter, sergeant,
you got a fly in your coffee?
1057
01:05:37,734 --> 01:05:40,693
-Can I get you some fresh hot?
-Oh, no, no, Will. No.
1058
01:05:40,870 --> 01:05:43,795
Just go on your way.
1059
01:05:43,973 --> 01:05:49,458
-Your own special way.
-Thanks, sergeant.
1060
01:05:51,014 --> 01:05:55,373
Hey, it sure makes me proud to know
you're sure about me getting classified.
1061
01:05:58,421 --> 01:06:00,879
He sure didn't pass no eye test.
1062
01:06:01,057 --> 01:06:03,982
And he ain't gonna be classified.
1063
01:06:05,495 --> 01:06:09,148
And I'm gonna
be permanent latrine orderly.
1064
01:06:12,335 --> 01:06:15,260
How big do they grow them
turkeys down there?
1065
01:06:16,105 --> 01:06:18,495
No, he can't do this to me.
1066
01:06:18,675 --> 01:06:20,565
I'm old and I'm tired...
1067
01:06:20,743 --> 01:06:23,327
...and my constitution
needs peace and security.
1068
01:06:23,513 --> 01:06:25,869
Look, sarge. Sarge.
1069
01:06:26,049 --> 01:06:28,007
If he wasn't to get classified...
1070
01:06:28,184 --> 01:06:31,041
...and it wasn't your fault,
that'd be all right, wouldn't it?
1071
01:06:31,221 --> 01:06:32,838
How? How?
1072
01:06:33,022 --> 01:06:36,641
Supposing he didn't show up
for inspection tomorrow?
1073
01:06:36,826 --> 01:06:41,685
And when he finally did show,
he'd been drinking, shall we say?
1074
01:06:42,866 --> 01:06:46,223
Listen, Irving,
I even got so I kind of like the kid.
1075
01:06:46,402 --> 01:06:50,158
And I ain't one
to go too far outside regulations.
1076
01:06:51,107 --> 01:06:55,193
But if you got an idea, I'm desperate.
1077
01:06:55,378 --> 01:06:58,496
All you gotta do
is wangle us three passes.
1078
01:06:58,681 --> 01:07:02,334
We'll take him to the Purple Grotto
for a little celebration.
1079
01:07:04,487 --> 01:07:07,310
We could take him tonight.
1080
01:07:07,790 --> 01:07:10,044
Yeah, we could.
1081
01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:12,341
[LOUD MUSIC
PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS INSIDE]
1082
01:07:43,693 --> 01:07:47,710
Well, Will, here we are again. Round two.
1083
01:07:47,897 --> 01:07:49,548
I sure do appreciate this.
1084
01:07:49,732 --> 01:07:53,089
I still don't feel right, my glass
being so much bigger than you alls.
1085
01:07:53,269 --> 01:07:56,854
Guest of honor always gets
the biggest glass. That's the honor.
1086
01:07:57,040 --> 01:07:58,861
-To Will.
-To Will.
1087
01:07:59,042 --> 01:08:00,499
-Again?
-Come on, come on, come on.
1088
01:08:00,677 --> 01:08:04,501
Ha-ha-ha. Whee.
1089
01:08:16,159 --> 01:08:19,949
Your Scotch stuff tastes kind of sharp.
I like the other stuff you give me better.
1090
01:08:20,129 --> 01:08:22,883
-You mean the bourbon?
-No, gin.
1091
01:08:29,839 --> 01:08:33,287
Yeah. More tangy than sharp.
1092
01:08:35,111 --> 01:08:38,537
Sure was nice of you to give me
this celebration party, sergeant.
1093
01:08:39,115 --> 01:08:42,131
But I still wish Ben
could've come along too.
1094
01:08:42,552 --> 01:08:44,100
Just couldn't wangle it.
1095
01:08:44,287 --> 01:08:48,577
Outside of you, Ben's the only one left
responsible enough for barracks duty.
1096
01:08:48,758 --> 01:08:52,047
And tomorrow, we got a real inspection.
The colonel's coming.
1097
01:08:52,228 --> 01:08:55,949
Yeah, Ben's sharp.
Come on, Will, drink it up. Drink it up.
1098
01:09:02,071 --> 01:09:04,120
[EXHALES]
1099
01:09:04,540 --> 01:09:07,124
Well, I reckon
we ought to be heading on back.
1100
01:09:07,310 --> 01:09:08,927
With the colonel coming tomorrow...
1101
01:09:09,112 --> 01:09:13,334
...I wanna give Ben a hand
and get the barracks cleaned up real special.
1102
01:09:13,516 --> 01:09:15,371
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
1103
01:09:15,551 --> 01:09:18,908
I told you I was gonna give you my watch
and I'm gonna give you my watch.
1104
01:09:19,088 --> 01:09:21,308
We gotta have several,
several drinks on that.
1105
01:09:21,491 --> 01:09:23,381
Golly.
1106
01:09:25,662 --> 01:09:27,711
My mother gave it to me.
1107
01:09:28,364 --> 01:09:30,288
To Will Stockdale...
1108
01:09:30,466 --> 01:09:34,187
...I am proud of him
for getting classified so good...
1109
01:09:34,370 --> 01:09:37,193
...and for cleaning up the latrine and all.
1110
01:09:37,373 --> 01:09:40,264
Thank you.
1111
01:09:40,443 --> 01:09:43,732
Thank you.
1112
01:09:45,848 --> 01:09:48,398
Whoo-hoo!
1113
01:09:49,018 --> 01:09:51,101
To Sergeant King.
1114
01:09:51,888 --> 01:09:54,073
The best dang sergeant there is...
1115
01:09:54,257 --> 01:09:58,843
...in the whole danged Air Force.
1116
01:10:05,601 --> 01:10:07,058
Ahhh.
1117
01:10:08,404 --> 01:10:12,262
By dog, from a jug,
it don't taste sharp at all, does it?
1118
01:10:13,609 --> 01:10:18,059
Will, are you absolutely sure that you never
drank any whiskey before, at all?
1119
01:10:18,247 --> 01:10:21,695
Never no store whiskey,
just some old stuff my pa makes.
1120
01:10:22,085 --> 01:10:24,942
-Some old stuff that your pa--
-Yeah.
1121
01:10:25,121 --> 01:10:26,635
Corn liquor kind of.
1122
01:10:26,823 --> 01:10:30,476
You know, corn, grain, kerosene.
1123
01:10:30,660 --> 01:10:31,810
-Kerosene?
-Kerosene?
1124
01:10:33,129 --> 01:10:35,110
Just a mite for flavoring.
1125
01:10:35,298 --> 01:10:37,586
Where the heck
are we gonna get some kerosene?
1126
01:10:37,767 --> 01:10:39,725
WOMAN:
Cigars, cigarettes?
1127
01:10:39,902 --> 01:10:42,656
And anything else you wanna smoke.
1128
01:10:42,839 --> 01:10:45,730
Cigars, cigarettes?
1129
01:10:48,945 --> 01:10:51,130
Why, thank you.
1130
01:10:52,515 --> 01:10:55,497
-This ought to come near it.
-Sure.
1131
01:10:56,452 --> 01:11:00,708
He wants kerosene, he gets kerosene.
1132
01:11:06,963 --> 01:11:08,511
It's familiar.
1133
01:11:11,734 --> 01:11:15,592
Hey, there's a infan-- Hey, infantry.
1134
01:11:16,773 --> 01:11:17,787
Hi.
1135
01:11:17,974 --> 01:11:19,795
Let's drink one to the infantry.
1136
01:11:23,679 --> 01:11:26,763
-Have a drink. We're celebrating.
-Hi, Jack.
1137
01:11:26,949 --> 01:11:29,908
Thanks a lot. I do not mind if I do.
1138
01:11:30,086 --> 01:11:32,840
-To the infantry.
-To the infantry.
1139
01:11:33,389 --> 01:11:36,007
To the infantry.
1140
01:11:53,976 --> 01:11:57,458
So....
1141
01:11:58,581 --> 01:12:03,008
Say, I didn't know you fly boys
were so nice to the infantry.
1142
01:12:03,186 --> 01:12:06,543
Hey, heck, it's the air age
and you're our helpers, ain't you?
1143
01:12:06,722 --> 01:12:10,170
-Your what?
-Our helpers.
1144
01:12:10,359 --> 01:12:12,909
Don't think we don't appreciate it too.
1145
01:12:13,095 --> 01:12:17,112
Listen, listen, fellas.
You're a nice bunch of fellas.
1146
01:12:17,300 --> 01:12:23,195
Fellas, you got it easier than anybody,
even the Navy.
1147
01:12:23,372 --> 01:12:24,522
Easy.
1148
01:12:24,707 --> 01:12:29,361
We got the roughest, toughest,
meanest sergeants in the whole service.
1149
01:12:29,545 --> 01:12:31,093
Go on.
1150
01:12:31,280 --> 01:12:35,730
You don't know what a tough sergeant
is until you've been in the infantry.
1151
01:12:35,918 --> 01:12:41,073
Ain't nobody tougher than my sergeant.
He's tough.
1152
01:12:41,257 --> 01:12:43,511
I sure am.
1153
01:12:43,693 --> 01:12:45,207
Oh, sergeant.
1154
01:12:45,895 --> 01:12:47,284
I'm a louse.
1155
01:12:47,463 --> 01:12:49,478
I don't know, sergeant.
1156
01:12:49,665 --> 01:12:54,115
You seem to be
a pretty decent Joe to me.
1157
01:12:54,704 --> 01:12:58,357
-You take that back.
-All right.
1158
01:12:58,541 --> 01:13:00,089
I'll just bet you five bucks...
1159
01:13:00,276 --> 01:13:03,201
...I'm a bigger louse than you
and I'm just a private.
1160
01:13:03,379 --> 01:13:06,896
-Yeah? Put up or shut up.
-Yeah, put up or shut up.
1161
01:13:07,083 --> 01:13:10,372
What's a bigger louse
than a louse that'll drink your booze...
1162
01:13:10,553 --> 01:13:12,534
...and then punch you right in the guts?
1163
01:13:12,722 --> 01:13:16,273
-Put up or shut up.
-Oh, says who?
1164
01:13:16,459 --> 01:13:18,781
Sergeant, I think we ought to be
going on back now.
1165
01:13:18,961 --> 01:13:21,010
KING:
Go away, you're drunk.
1166
01:13:23,766 --> 01:13:24,916
Oh-ho.
1167
01:13:25,101 --> 01:13:27,116
SOLDIER: Come on, infantry,
let's get the fly boys.
1168
01:13:27,303 --> 01:13:28,885
Oh....
1169
01:13:29,071 --> 01:13:31,052
[WOMEN SCREAMING]
1170
01:13:33,509 --> 01:13:35,262
[LAUGHS]
1171
01:13:35,444 --> 01:13:37,061
Oh!
1172
01:13:40,249 --> 01:13:44,869
I done hit him once, Irving,
ain't no use to overdoing it.
1173
01:13:51,627 --> 01:13:54,142
Now, you see,
you antagonized him, sergeant.
1174
01:13:54,330 --> 01:13:56,379
I think we ought to be
going on home, anyhow.
1175
01:13:56,565 --> 01:13:58,887
All right, just a minute.
1176
01:13:59,802 --> 01:14:01,783
[GRUNTING]
1177
01:14:08,277 --> 01:14:10,235
I know you're having
a whole lot of fun...
1178
01:14:10,413 --> 01:14:12,371
...so I won't stay around
and be a wet blanket.
1179
01:14:12,548 --> 01:14:13,800
[MUTTERING]
1180
01:14:13,983 --> 01:14:16,032
Okay, I'm going on back to the barracks.
1181
01:14:16,218 --> 01:14:17,232
[MUTTERING]
1182
01:14:17,420 --> 01:14:20,709
Hush a minute, hush a minute.
I'm gonna go on back and give Ben a hand.
1183
01:14:20,890 --> 01:14:23,678
[MUTTERING]
1184
01:14:46,582 --> 01:14:50,008
-Is this the Purple Grotto?
-Right up yonder.
1185
01:14:55,791 --> 01:14:58,341
Couple of thirsty fellas for you.
1186
01:15:09,171 --> 01:15:11,061
[WHISTLING]
1187
01:15:14,377 --> 01:15:16,733
-Ain't the sergeant showed up yet?
-Nope.
1188
01:15:16,912 --> 01:15:20,394
-Why didn't you come to breakfast?
-Went over to carpenter shop.
1189
01:15:20,583 --> 01:15:23,098
-What're you doing there?
-Fixing up something special.
1190
01:15:23,285 --> 01:15:25,505
It ain't everyday
a colonel comes to inspect.
1191
01:15:25,688 --> 01:15:27,612
I sure wish the sergeant was here.
1192
01:15:27,790 --> 01:15:30,977
Like I told you, he was having
a whole lot of fun. But he'll show up.
1193
01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:34,415
Sergeant King, he ain't gonna miss
no inspection if he can help it.
1194
01:15:35,031 --> 01:15:36,648
The heck he ain't.
1195
01:15:36,832 --> 01:15:40,121
Here comes the captain now.
And the colonel.
1196
01:15:40,302 --> 01:15:43,853
-Going round front.
-Oh, golly.
1197
01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:47,492
-Who's gonna report?
-Hey, you're in charge.
1198
01:15:47,676 --> 01:15:49,759
-Me?
-Yeah.
1199
01:15:50,679 --> 01:15:53,137
BEN:
Barracks ready for inspection, sir.
1200
01:15:53,516 --> 01:15:55,599
-Barracks ready for inspection, sir.
-Here.
1201
01:15:55,785 --> 01:15:59,643
Listen, when you throw open this door,
holler "Attention," just as loud as you can.
1202
01:15:59,822 --> 01:16:01,439
Okay? Okay. Okay.
1203
01:16:08,164 --> 01:16:10,281
Barracks ready for inspection, sir.
1204
01:16:12,568 --> 01:16:13,650
Where's Sergeant King?
1205
01:16:13,836 --> 01:16:16,795
I don't know, sir,
but the barracks are ready for inspection.
1206
01:16:16,972 --> 01:16:18,862
All right, all right.
1207
01:16:19,742 --> 01:16:22,667
Just for a starter,
I'd like you to take a look at this latrine.
1208
01:16:22,845 --> 01:16:26,100
There's a man in this barracks
whose latrine work is quite surprising.
1209
01:16:26,882 --> 01:16:31,309
Attention!
1210
01:16:34,223 --> 01:16:36,875
Latrine ready for inspection, sir.
1211
01:16:52,575 --> 01:16:55,329
Latrine ready for inspection, sir.
1212
01:16:59,915 --> 01:17:02,465
What is the idea behind this?
1213
01:17:04,320 --> 01:17:06,676
Welcoming the colonel, sir.
1214
01:17:09,258 --> 01:17:10,681
I'm sorry, sir.
1215
01:17:10,860 --> 01:17:15,651
Oh, that's all right, captain.
I've been welcomed in many ways.
1216
01:17:15,831 --> 01:17:19,052
Ticker tape, flags waving.
1217
01:17:19,235 --> 01:17:22,786
Women of a French village
once three rose buds at me.
1218
01:17:22,972 --> 01:17:24,896
But this....
1219
01:17:26,041 --> 01:17:28,056
This is just....
1220
01:17:28,911 --> 01:17:31,335
Well, I don't know.
1221
01:17:41,891 --> 01:17:44,645
They didn't hardly inspect
the latrine at all.
1222
01:17:44,827 --> 01:17:46,512
I don't know, Will.
1223
01:17:46,695 --> 01:17:48,175
They--
1224
01:17:48,764 --> 01:17:50,813
They, oh....
1225
01:18:19,762 --> 01:18:21,617
Sergeant.
1226
01:18:22,498 --> 01:18:24,718
Lieutenant back there
almost spotted me.
1227
01:18:24,900 --> 01:18:26,721
-You all right?
-I ain't sure.
1228
01:18:26,902 --> 01:18:29,053
-Hey, where's Irving?
-MP's got him.
1229
01:18:29,238 --> 01:18:31,526
-Golly.
COLONEL: Very nice, captain.
1230
01:18:31,707 --> 01:18:33,028
CAPTAIN:
Thank you, sir.
1231
01:18:33,209 --> 01:18:34,564
-The colonel?
-Yeah.
1232
01:18:34,743 --> 01:18:37,702
Hey, they inspected in here already.
1233
01:18:37,913 --> 01:18:38,927
Hey...
1234
01:18:39,114 --> 01:18:41,368
...watch out for that treadle.
1235
01:18:44,153 --> 01:18:46,202
COLONEL:
Very good, indeed.
1236
01:18:49,792 --> 01:18:54,879
Mm-hm. Excellent. Excellent. Were you
in charge during your sergeant's absence?
1237
01:18:55,064 --> 01:18:56,521
Yes, sir. Complete charge.
1238
01:18:56,699 --> 01:18:58,953
I think you should make a note
of this man's name.
1239
01:18:59,134 --> 01:19:00,148
Yes, indeed, sir.
1240
01:19:00,336 --> 01:19:02,055
-What is it, private?
-Whitledge, sir.
1241
01:19:12,681 --> 01:19:13,797
Whitledge, sir.
1242
01:19:13,983 --> 01:19:16,271
-What's that again, private?
-Whitledge, sir.
1243
01:19:16,452 --> 01:19:22,142
W-H-l-T-L-E-D-G-E.
1244
01:19:24,693 --> 01:19:27,948
-What the devil is--?
-What's going on in there?
1245
01:19:28,631 --> 01:19:30,987
Latrine's out of order, sir.
1246
01:19:31,166 --> 01:19:33,590
You're gonna have to use
the one next door.
1247
01:19:33,769 --> 01:19:35,556
Let me in there.
1248
01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:46,966
This is the barracks sergeant, sir.
1249
01:19:48,117 --> 01:19:49,972
How are you, sir?
1250
01:19:50,152 --> 01:19:53,270
All slicked up for inspection. Explain.
1251
01:19:55,658 --> 01:19:57,275
Explain.
1252
01:19:58,027 --> 01:19:59,814
Well, sir...
1253
01:20:00,929 --> 01:20:03,717
...I went to a movie last night, sir.
1254
01:20:03,899 --> 01:20:07,381
And there were these eight infantry men
sitting right in behind me.
1255
01:20:07,569 --> 01:20:09,925
And they was cussing out the Air Force...
1256
01:20:10,105 --> 01:20:15,362
...and saying as how that their officers
were more understanding than our officers.
1257
01:20:15,544 --> 01:20:21,495
-So you fought them all night long?
-Yes, sir, it was awful.
1258
01:20:22,051 --> 01:20:24,032
What was the name of the movie?
1259
01:20:24,720 --> 01:20:25,802
-Movie?
-The movie.
1260
01:20:25,988 --> 01:20:27,445
Oh.
1261
01:20:29,024 --> 01:20:31,039
Forward March.
1262
01:20:31,727 --> 01:20:34,049
American Battalion.
1263
01:20:34,296 --> 01:20:36,151
Out of the Air.
1264
01:20:37,633 --> 01:20:40,091
Up in the Wild Blue?
1265
01:20:41,337 --> 01:20:43,488
It was a sneak preview.
1266
01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:47,760
Captain, I don't know how this man
ever got on my base...
1267
01:20:47,943 --> 01:20:50,060
...but he's certainly
not going to remain here.
1268
01:20:50,245 --> 01:20:54,228
Corrupting new airmen
with this horrible example. Ship him out.
1269
01:20:54,416 --> 01:20:56,670
There's a group
leaving for gunnery school today.
1270
01:20:56,852 --> 01:20:59,970
Splendid. General Bush
can always use another private.
1271
01:21:00,155 --> 01:21:01,703
Private?
1272
01:21:04,193 --> 01:21:05,650
Private.
1273
01:21:07,029 --> 01:21:08,611
Private.
1274
01:21:10,833 --> 01:21:12,415
BEN:
That name was Whitledge, sir.
1275
01:21:12,601 --> 01:21:14,456
W-H-l-T-L--
1276
01:21:14,636 --> 01:21:15,957
-Whitledge, eh?
-Yes, sir.
1277
01:21:16,138 --> 01:21:20,792
This is going on your record, Whitledge.
This is going on everybody's record.
1278
01:21:26,115 --> 01:21:29,506
Something special for the colonel.
1279
01:21:33,455 --> 01:21:35,572
You ain't a sergeant no more.
1280
01:21:35,758 --> 01:21:38,512
No, I ain't a sergeant no more.
I'm a private.
1281
01:21:38,694 --> 01:21:42,120
A 45-year-old private.
1282
01:21:42,498 --> 01:21:43,750
Gosh.
1283
01:21:43,932 --> 01:21:47,255
-He's putting it on my record.
-Gosh, Ben--
1284
01:21:47,436 --> 01:21:51,419
There's one silver lining to this cloud,
though, by George.
1285
01:21:51,607 --> 01:21:55,363
You're staying here,
but I'm going to gunnery school...
1286
01:21:55,544 --> 01:21:58,128
...a thousand miles away.
1287
01:21:58,313 --> 01:21:59,793
WILL: Sergeant?
-Private.
1288
01:21:59,982 --> 01:22:01,371
I ain't staying here.
1289
01:22:01,550 --> 01:22:04,407
I'm going to gunnery school like you are.
1290
01:22:04,987 --> 01:22:06,774
They took you?
1291
01:22:07,222 --> 01:22:08,338
You passed the eye test?
1292
01:22:08,857 --> 01:22:11,372
It's on the bulletin board.
1293
01:22:11,560 --> 01:22:14,041
It was your helping done it for me.
1294
01:22:14,229 --> 01:22:18,553
-Oh, no, no, no.
-We're gonna be together.
1295
01:22:19,034 --> 01:22:21,424
I've had about all I can take.
1296
01:22:21,603 --> 01:22:24,653
You and him be together,
just leave me out of it.
1297
01:22:24,840 --> 01:22:26,661
-But we're buddies.
-Buddies?
1298
01:22:26,842 --> 01:22:29,300
Last night you said
you was proud of me.
1299
01:22:29,478 --> 01:22:31,527
I was drunk.
I didn't know what I was saying.
1300
01:22:31,713 --> 01:22:34,934
-You give me your watch.
-I was drunk.
1301
01:22:35,751 --> 01:22:39,233
Not when you put me in charge
of the latrine.
1302
01:22:40,355 --> 01:22:44,611
You talk to him.
Maybe you can get through.
1303
01:22:47,095 --> 01:22:49,849
Cleaning the latrine
isn't a good job, Will.
1304
01:22:50,032 --> 01:22:52,149
It's the worst job there is.
1305
01:22:52,334 --> 01:22:53,814
It's a punishment job.
1306
01:22:55,737 --> 01:22:56,785
It is.
1307
01:22:56,972 --> 01:22:59,590
Now do you understand?
There's your buddy.
1308
01:22:59,775 --> 01:23:02,791
Make trouble for him for a change.
1309
01:23:10,719 --> 01:23:12,267
[SIGHS]
1310
01:23:12,921 --> 01:23:14,242
Great.
1311
01:23:14,423 --> 01:23:18,543
You thought you were gonna miss him,
so you tore up your transfer.
1312
01:23:18,727 --> 01:23:21,777
Well, you don't look so glad
about it now.
1313
01:23:27,336 --> 01:23:29,317
You tore up your transfer, Ben?
1314
01:23:31,373 --> 01:23:33,228
It was just an application, that's all.
1315
01:23:34,209 --> 01:23:36,463
To the infantry.
1316
01:23:36,645 --> 01:23:38,535
It doesn't make any difference now.
1317
01:23:38,714 --> 01:23:41,400
After this, I couldn't get transferred
to a troop of mules.
1318
01:23:41,583 --> 01:23:42,938
I didn't know you done that.
1319
01:23:43,118 --> 01:23:46,009
-Just forget about it, will you?
-You ain't sore at me?
1320
01:23:46,188 --> 01:23:48,738
I ain't jumping up and down,
you can say that again.
1321
01:23:48,924 --> 01:23:50,973
You ain't nothing
but trouble since we met...
1322
01:23:51,159 --> 01:23:53,549
...running around acting like a big,
dang donkey.
1323
01:23:53,896 --> 01:23:56,354
I'll make it up to you, Ben, honest I will.
1324
01:23:56,965 --> 01:24:00,049
Just forget about it, will you?
Don't try to do nothing.
1325
01:24:00,235 --> 01:24:03,285
Oh, we'll still speak
because we'll be in the same outfit...
1326
01:24:03,472 --> 01:24:04,986
...and that's the military way...
1327
01:24:05,173 --> 01:24:07,461
...but forget about it.
We'll both be better off.
1328
01:24:08,977 --> 01:24:13,097
-Ben, please--
-Gotta go pack for gunnery school.
1329
01:24:17,920 --> 01:24:19,036
Oh, yeah.
1330
01:24:19,221 --> 01:24:23,739
Well, Ben, Sergeant King and me,
we all went to gunnery school together.
1331
01:24:23,926 --> 01:24:25,645
Like The Three Musketeers.
1332
01:24:25,827 --> 01:24:29,014
And they put us on this here squadron
on this here air base?
1333
01:24:29,197 --> 01:24:31,485
And it was
way out in the middle of the country.
1334
01:24:31,667 --> 01:24:33,784
You know, out of the way
of the other outfits.
1335
01:24:33,969 --> 01:24:36,928
And the planes
is what they call obsolete...
1336
01:24:37,105 --> 01:24:41,498
...and the officer crews that run them,
well, they wasn't kept up very much either.
1337
01:24:41,677 --> 01:24:45,228
I guess it's what you might call
a second-line-of-defense outfit.
1338
01:24:45,414 --> 01:24:48,464
But, anyhow, Ben and me
was put on the same flight crew...
1339
01:24:48,650 --> 01:24:51,871
...because they put you
according to how you come in your class...
1340
01:24:52,054 --> 01:24:54,740
...and we was the bottom two.
1341
01:24:54,923 --> 01:24:57,609
Sergeant King though,
he came out on top.
1342
01:24:57,793 --> 01:25:01,219
He did. The instructor said
they never seen nothing like it.
1343
01:25:01,396 --> 01:25:04,583
It was just as if he had copies of the test
before they gave them.
1344
01:25:06,568 --> 01:25:10,619
All right, boys, get this one off
and you can all get back to sleep.
1345
01:25:16,612 --> 01:25:20,800
Hey, look at you with an arm band
and a writing pad and everything.
1346
01:25:20,983 --> 01:25:24,409
All right, get on the plane.
You're taking off right now.
1347
01:25:24,586 --> 01:25:26,703
Hey, we can't. Everybody ain't here yet.
1348
01:25:26,888 --> 01:25:29,745
The radio operator and the front gunner,
they ain't showed up.
1349
01:25:29,925 --> 01:25:32,349
KING: All right. Get onboard the plane.
Get moving.
1350
01:25:32,527 --> 01:25:34,007
Clear.
1351
01:25:38,600 --> 01:25:41,491
How come we're going up so early,
sergeant?
1352
01:25:41,670 --> 01:25:43,924
To break the sound barrier.
1353
01:25:44,106 --> 01:25:46,792
You gotta sneak up on it
when nobody's looking.
1354
01:25:47,142 --> 01:25:48,793
Oh.
1355
01:26:00,389 --> 01:26:02,711
Excuse me, sir.
1356
01:26:06,628 --> 01:26:09,678
-Excuse me, sirs. Howdy.
-What the--?
1357
01:26:09,865 --> 01:26:12,517
It's all right, George.
He's one of the crew.
1358
01:26:12,701 --> 01:26:14,249
Okay, okay.
1359
01:26:14,436 --> 01:26:16,826
Don't come sneaking up
on people like that, fella.
1360
01:26:17,005 --> 01:26:20,954
Sorry, sir. I just wanted to see
what you all do up here.
1361
01:26:21,143 --> 01:26:23,397
It's on automatic pilot.
1362
01:26:24,880 --> 01:26:27,998
-Did you already let up the wheels?
-Heck, yes.
1363
01:26:28,183 --> 01:26:29,197
Shucks.
1364
01:26:29,384 --> 01:26:33,276
-What are you all do in back, anyhow?
-Nothing much.
1365
01:26:33,455 --> 01:26:36,937
I mostly look out the blister
and sweep up a little.
1366
01:26:39,494 --> 01:26:41,111
Good night.
1367
01:26:45,267 --> 01:26:47,088
Excuse me, sir.
1368
01:26:53,875 --> 01:26:57,096
Take an awful long time
to get to Denver, Colorado.
1369
01:26:57,279 --> 01:26:58,600
What they doing up there?
1370
01:26:58,780 --> 01:27:02,797
Oh, you'd be right proud of them, Ben.
They're working real hard.
1371
01:27:02,984 --> 01:27:05,636
Steering and navigating
and engineering and all.
1372
01:27:07,789 --> 01:27:10,475
Navigator to pilot.
Navigator to pilot, over.
1373
01:27:10,659 --> 01:27:12,207
Pilot to navigator.
1374
01:27:12,394 --> 01:27:15,148
Fred, I wish you wouldn't call me
once we're off the ground.
1375
01:27:15,330 --> 01:27:17,880
We're over the Gulf of Mexico, you idiot.
1376
01:27:19,234 --> 01:27:21,055
How can we be over
the Gulf of Mexico...
1377
01:27:21,236 --> 01:27:23,888
...when there's a city below us
half the size of New York?
1378
01:27:24,072 --> 01:27:26,053
You wanna come back here
and check the maps?
1379
01:27:26,241 --> 01:27:28,199
I figured our position
by dead reckoning...
1380
01:27:28,376 --> 01:27:31,494
...and we're smack-dab in the middle
of the Gulf of Mexico.
1381
01:27:31,680 --> 01:27:34,639
Hey, fellas, Number 2 engine is dead.
1382
01:27:35,584 --> 01:27:36,700
Okay.
1383
01:27:36,885 --> 01:27:38,274
[ENGINE FALTERING]
1384
01:27:40,288 --> 01:27:43,475
-Prepare for landing.
-This is not a seaplane.
1385
01:27:43,658 --> 01:27:46,481
Copilot to rear gunner.
Copilot to rear gunner. Over.
1386
01:27:46,661 --> 01:27:48,642
[BUZZER SOUNDING]
1387
01:27:55,137 --> 01:27:56,526
Howdy.
1388
01:27:56,705 --> 01:27:59,960
Have you seen anything below
that might have been a body of water?
1389
01:28:00,142 --> 01:28:03,761
No, sir, I ain't seen nothing.
I been sweeping up.
1390
01:28:03,945 --> 01:28:07,132
What is the matter with that
radio operator? Pilot to radio operator.
1391
01:28:07,315 --> 01:28:11,002
-Pilot to radio operator. Over.
-Copilot to radio operator. Over.
1392
01:28:11,186 --> 01:28:15,909
-Navigator to radio operator. Over?
-Rear gunner to everybody.
1393
01:28:16,091 --> 01:28:18,276
Radio operator missed the plane.
1394
01:28:18,727 --> 01:28:19,945
-Oh, no.
-Oh, no.
1395
01:28:20,695 --> 01:28:22,312
-Over.
-Listen, rear gunner...
1396
01:28:22,497 --> 01:28:24,648
...you ought to know
how to operate that radio.
1397
01:28:24,833 --> 01:28:27,849
See if you can find out
where we are. This is an emergency.
1398
01:28:28,036 --> 01:28:31,189
We know exactly where we are.
1399
01:28:31,373 --> 01:28:33,923
Hey, sir, you ought to give the job
to the other gunner.
1400
01:28:34,109 --> 01:28:37,262
I reckon he'd be about the
best dang radio operator there is...
1401
01:28:37,445 --> 01:28:39,494
...in the whole danged Air Force.
1402
01:28:39,681 --> 01:28:43,835
All right, just put somebody
on that lousy radio! Over and out!
1403
01:28:44,019 --> 01:28:47,445
Hey, hey, hey, Ben. Hey, listen.
Hey, hey, wake up, Ben.
1404
01:28:47,622 --> 01:28:49,773
-What?
-Listen, it's an emergency.
1405
01:28:49,958 --> 01:28:53,679
We're lost and Lieutenant Bridges
wants you to be the radio operator...
1406
01:28:53,862 --> 01:28:55,581
...and find out where we are.
1407
01:28:55,764 --> 01:29:00,054
It's your big chance, Ben,
to save the plane and us and everything.
1408
01:29:00,235 --> 01:29:02,716
-Me?
-They heard what a good soldier you was.
1409
01:29:02,904 --> 01:29:05,829
Golly. Oh, Lord.
1410
01:29:10,011 --> 01:29:13,630
-Hey, here's some instructions.
-Good. Read them off.
1411
01:29:13,815 --> 01:29:16,296
I'll operate and you be my assistant.
1412
01:29:16,484 --> 01:29:18,135
Assistant?
1413
01:29:18,320 --> 01:29:21,746
Yes, sir. Heh-heh.
1414
01:29:22,057 --> 01:29:24,572
Um.... "Important notice.
1415
01:29:24,759 --> 01:29:28,776
The taxpayers of the United States
paid their--"
1416
01:29:28,964 --> 01:29:33,323
-Here. You operate, I'll read.
-Oh, but they gave the job to you, Ben.
1417
01:29:33,501 --> 01:29:36,949
Go on. I gotta think for the good
of the outfit.
1418
01:29:37,138 --> 01:29:40,620
"Two. Turn oscillator control knob--"
1419
01:29:40,809 --> 01:29:42,630
I think that's the big one there.
1420
01:29:42,811 --> 01:29:46,168
"--to transmission frequency desired."
1421
01:29:47,782 --> 01:29:49,967
Well, what frequency do we desire?
1422
01:29:50,151 --> 01:29:52,803
Well, I'll leave that up to you.
1423
01:29:52,988 --> 01:29:56,141
Alrighty.
1424
01:29:56,324 --> 01:29:59,215
"Adjust Knob B...
1425
01:29:59,394 --> 01:30:03,650
...so as to obtain minimum impedance."
1426
01:30:05,500 --> 01:30:09,221
Hey, listen, Ben. We got
a little old radio on the porch...
1427
01:30:09,404 --> 01:30:11,954
...whenever it won't work,
Pa spits in the back of it...
1428
01:30:12,140 --> 01:30:15,531
...and whomps it a good
and it works every time. Let's see.
1429
01:30:23,351 --> 01:30:25,536
There you are, she's a-working.
1430
01:30:25,720 --> 01:30:28,178
-She's a-working.
-We done it, Will.
1431
01:30:28,356 --> 01:30:30,280
Hello?
1432
01:30:30,625 --> 01:30:32,207
[SPITS]
1433
01:30:32,394 --> 01:30:34,147
Hello?
1434
01:30:34,329 --> 01:30:37,652
There. Ha-ha. I told you I'd find an airport.
1435
01:30:40,835 --> 01:30:43,316
That's a drive-in movie. Pull up.
1436
01:30:43,505 --> 01:30:45,963
Pull up. Pull up.
1437
01:30:52,414 --> 01:30:53,598
[ENGINE BACKFIRES]
1438
01:30:53,882 --> 01:30:55,897
Hello?
1439
01:30:56,084 --> 01:30:58,508
If you get somebody,
be careful what you say.
1440
01:30:58,687 --> 01:31:02,044
-It might be the enemy.
-What enemy?
1441
01:31:02,223 --> 01:31:06,513
-I don't know, but be careful.
-Okay.
1442
01:31:06,695 --> 01:31:08,653
Hello?
1443
01:31:09,564 --> 01:31:10,851
[SPITS]
1444
01:31:11,032 --> 01:31:12,455
Hello?
1445
01:31:16,071 --> 01:31:17,926
OFFICER: Sergeant.
MAN: I'm clear on one.
1446
01:31:18,106 --> 01:31:19,324
Door.
1447
01:31:19,507 --> 01:31:20,521
[SPITTING OVER RADIO]
1448
01:31:20,709 --> 01:31:24,692
Excuse me, sir, but I'm getting
a very odd signal here. Listen.
1449
01:31:24,879 --> 01:31:27,963
MAN [OVER RADIO]:
--in 5930, chap. Over.
1450
01:31:28,149 --> 01:31:29,902
That is odd.
1451
01:31:30,085 --> 01:31:31,804
Sounds like somebody spitting.
1452
01:31:31,987 --> 01:31:35,344
BEN: Okay, Will, try it again.
WILL: Yes, sir.
1453
01:31:35,523 --> 01:31:37,845
Hello?
1454
01:31:38,026 --> 01:31:40,211
Hello?
1455
01:31:40,395 --> 01:31:42,751
Anybody there?
1456
01:31:42,931 --> 01:31:45,788
-Hello?
-Hello.
1457
01:31:45,967 --> 01:31:48,448
-Hello.
-Hello?
1458
01:31:48,636 --> 01:31:50,685
Howdy.
1459
01:31:50,872 --> 01:31:54,525
-Hey, Ben, I got somebody.
BEN: How about that?
1460
01:31:54,709 --> 01:31:56,826
Who are you? Where are you?
1461
01:31:57,012 --> 01:31:58,936
WILL:
Ben, he wants to know who we are.
1462
01:31:59,114 --> 01:32:01,572
Answer me. Who the devil are you?
1463
01:32:01,750 --> 01:32:04,675
He talks like an American, Ben.
1464
01:32:05,420 --> 01:32:07,901
Ben says, "First, who are you?"
1465
01:32:08,089 --> 01:32:10,639
This is command post
Operation Prometheus.
1466
01:32:10,825 --> 01:32:13,443
-Are you in an airplane?
-Sure are.
1467
01:32:13,628 --> 01:32:17,110
-Oh, great Scott.
-No, sir. Stockdale.
1468
01:32:17,298 --> 01:32:19,279
That must be this pip
on the scope, sir.
1469
01:32:19,467 --> 01:32:22,119
-Heading straight towards the tower, sir.
-Judas priest.
1470
01:32:22,303 --> 01:32:25,353
-Is this the Gulf of Mexico?
-No, you idiot.
1471
01:32:25,540 --> 01:32:29,159
-Send word to stop the detonator.
-It's too late, sir. Zero-minus-4.
1472
01:32:29,344 --> 01:32:31,359
Hey, where'd you say we was?
1473
01:32:31,546 --> 01:32:34,528
You're right over Yucca Flats, Nevada.
The atomic proving ground.
1474
01:32:34,716 --> 01:32:37,266
Listen to me.
I want you to turn that plane around...
1475
01:32:37,452 --> 01:32:39,410
...and head right back
where you came from.
1476
01:32:39,587 --> 01:32:41,636
There they are.
Straight toward the tower.
1477
01:32:41,823 --> 01:32:45,146
Ben says,
"Sorry. Our orders come from General Bush.
1478
01:32:45,326 --> 01:32:46,715
We got to do like he says. "
1479
01:32:46,895 --> 01:32:50,753
-Eugene Bush?
-Our commanding general.
1480
01:32:50,932 --> 01:32:53,914
-Fat fellow with a mustache.
-I might've known.
1481
01:32:54,102 --> 01:32:55,855
Get me through to General Bush.
1482
01:32:56,037 --> 01:32:57,824
That idiot, I'll kill him for this.
1483
01:32:58,006 --> 01:33:00,191
Get me General Bush,
12th Air Group. Emergency.
1484
01:33:00,375 --> 01:33:03,266
All right. I don't care what Ben says
or what Eugene Bush said.
1485
01:33:03,445 --> 01:33:05,903
I'm a general too,
in the U.S. Army infantry.
1486
01:33:06,081 --> 01:33:07,368
The infantry?
1487
01:33:07,549 --> 01:33:10,474
Yes, and I'm ordering you to turn
that plane around this minute.
1488
01:33:10,652 --> 01:33:11,939
You're heading straight into--
1489
01:33:12,120 --> 01:33:15,341
[STATIC WHINING OVER RADIO]
1490
01:33:15,523 --> 01:33:18,073
Hello? Hello?
1491
01:33:18,259 --> 01:33:21,685
-Great Scott, I've lost them.
-He's right here, sir.
1492
01:33:24,232 --> 01:33:25,314
Bush here.
1493
01:33:25,500 --> 01:33:27,822
Eugene, this is Vernon Pollard.
1494
01:33:28,436 --> 01:33:33,090
Vernon. Well, how are you, old boy?
1495
01:33:33,274 --> 01:33:35,357
You've sabotaged my operation,
you idiot.
1496
01:33:35,543 --> 01:33:38,798
You were ordered to send your plane
far away and one is coming over us.
1497
01:33:38,980 --> 01:33:41,165
I sent them away, Vernon.
1498
01:33:41,349 --> 01:33:44,365
-I sent them to Denver.
-I don't care where you sent them.
1499
01:33:44,552 --> 01:33:47,102
-What's wrong with your communications?
-What's wrong...
1500
01:33:47,288 --> 01:33:49,838
...with your security measures, old boy?
1501
01:33:50,024 --> 01:33:51,038
Shut up and listen.
1502
01:33:51,226 --> 01:33:53,116
I'm trying to reestablish radio contact.
1503
01:33:53,294 --> 01:33:55,878
What kind of idiot radio operators
do you put in planes?
1504
01:33:56,064 --> 01:34:00,286
What kind of idiot radio operators
did you put in those planes?
1505
01:34:00,468 --> 01:34:01,755
I'll skin you for this, Eugene.
1506
01:34:01,936 --> 01:34:03,393
[SPITTING OVER RADIO]
1507
01:34:03,571 --> 01:34:05,051
Sir, I've got that signal again.
1508
01:34:08,109 --> 01:34:10,158
WILL: Hello?
MAN: Twenty-three, stand by.
1509
01:34:10,345 --> 01:34:12,997
Hello?
1510
01:34:13,181 --> 01:34:17,039
Hello, listen, here's your General Bush.
1511
01:34:17,218 --> 01:34:19,301
They got General Bush there, Ben.
1512
01:34:19,487 --> 01:34:22,105
Eugene, I'm putting the telephone
next to the microphone.
1513
01:34:22,290 --> 01:34:23,713
Tell this idiot to turn back.
1514
01:34:23,892 --> 01:34:26,715
Hello? Who is this?
1515
01:34:26,895 --> 01:34:30,184
-Private Stockdale, sir.
-This is General Bush, Stockdale.
1516
01:34:30,365 --> 01:34:33,347
-Stockdale?
-Don't move, King.
1517
01:34:33,535 --> 01:34:35,857
Tell your pilot
to reverse course immediately.
1518
01:34:36,037 --> 01:34:40,259
-You're in extreme danger.
-Roger, sir. Wilco.
1519
01:34:40,441 --> 01:34:43,264
Ben says, "How do we know
you are General Bush?"
1520
01:34:43,444 --> 01:34:45,664
Tell him Sergeant King
will give him his watch.
1521
01:34:45,847 --> 01:34:48,931
-What? Huh?
-It's the only way, sir.
1522
01:34:49,117 --> 01:34:51,507
Sergeant King will give his watch.
1523
01:34:51,686 --> 01:34:54,839
-He will?
-I think so.
1524
01:34:55,023 --> 01:34:58,176
That's good enough for me.
I'll go tell Lieutenant Bridges.
1525
01:34:58,359 --> 01:35:00,909
I'll tell him this personal.
1526
01:35:05,900 --> 01:35:08,518
Excuse me, lieutenant,
but we talked with General Bush...
1527
01:35:08,703 --> 01:35:10,456
...and he says we're in real danger...
1528
01:35:10,638 --> 01:35:12,892
...and you should reverse course
quick as a wink.
1529
01:35:13,074 --> 01:35:16,363
-Danger? Where are we?
-Smack-dab over Yucca Flats, Nevada.
1530
01:35:16,544 --> 01:35:18,525
Holy Pete.
1531
01:35:19,914 --> 01:35:22,998
Hey, I just wanted to tell you
what a good job Ben done.
1532
01:35:23,184 --> 01:35:25,870
Maybe you could recommend him
for a promotion or something.
1533
01:35:26,054 --> 01:35:28,410
-Shut up. Don't bother me.
-But, lieutenant...
1534
01:35:28,590 --> 01:35:30,775
...maybe you could get him a medal
or something.
1535
01:35:30,959 --> 01:35:33,383
Get back to your station!
Don't bother me!
1536
01:35:33,561 --> 01:35:36,884
Don't bother me again for anything!
That's an order!
1537
01:35:39,601 --> 01:35:41,286
Yes, sir.
1538
01:35:42,670 --> 01:35:44,127
Twenty seconds, sir.
1539
01:35:44,305 --> 01:35:46,229
It's working, sir. They're turning.
1540
01:35:46,407 --> 01:35:48,490
You did it, Eugene. They're turning.
1541
01:35:48,676 --> 01:35:50,600
There they go. They're still turning.
1542
01:35:50,778 --> 01:35:53,293
No. They're heading for the tower again.
1543
01:35:53,481 --> 01:35:55,564
Ten seconds, sir.
1544
01:35:55,750 --> 01:35:57,640
It's all your fault, Eugene.
1545
01:35:57,819 --> 01:36:00,801
You've never forgiven me
for those hazings back at the point.
1546
01:36:01,756 --> 01:36:04,180
It's all your fault, you blundering idiot.
1547
01:36:04,359 --> 01:36:07,011
-For 30 years you've been out to get me.
LIEUTENANT: Five, four--
1548
01:36:07,195 --> 01:36:12,248
-And now you're out to wreck my career.
--three, two, one, zero.
1549
01:36:20,074 --> 01:36:23,124
What happened? What happened?
1550
01:36:23,978 --> 01:36:26,766
-Look, we're on fire!
-We got to jump out!
1551
01:36:26,948 --> 01:36:28,235
I got to tell them up front!
1552
01:36:28,416 --> 01:36:31,307
No, they said they didn't want
to be bothered about anything...
1553
01:36:31,486 --> 01:36:33,808
-...no matter what!
-But we can't leave like that!
1554
01:36:33,988 --> 01:36:36,242
-They said it was an order, Ben!
-No, Will!
1555
01:36:36,424 --> 01:36:38,609
WILL:
Hang on!
1556
01:36:38,793 --> 01:36:41,183
[SCREAMS]
1557
01:36:47,568 --> 01:36:49,048
Pull to the left!
1558
01:36:49,237 --> 01:36:52,628
No, pull to the right!
1559
01:36:52,807 --> 01:36:54,822
Hold still, Ben.
1560
01:36:55,009 --> 01:36:56,523
What'd you do it for?
1561
01:36:56,711 --> 01:36:59,602
You snatched me right out of the plane!
What'd you do it for?
1562
01:36:59,781 --> 01:37:03,207
Well, I know you didn't have time
to put on your parachute.
1563
01:37:03,384 --> 01:37:05,467
And heck,
you'd have done the same for me.
1564
01:37:05,653 --> 01:37:06,667
No, I wouldn't.
1565
01:37:06,854 --> 01:37:10,644
Our post was the tail of the plane
and nobody told us to quit it.
1566
01:37:10,825 --> 01:37:13,784
But the tail was on fire, Ben.
1567
01:37:13,961 --> 01:37:16,112
Our post was a-quitting us.
1568
01:37:16,297 --> 01:37:18,414
Do you know what we are now?
1569
01:37:18,599 --> 01:37:20,989
-Well, we're alive.
-We're deserters.
1570
01:37:21,169 --> 01:37:23,457
Deserters!
1571
01:37:23,638 --> 01:37:26,722
Quit wiggling, Ben. Please.
1572
01:37:26,908 --> 01:37:31,130
The first lick of danger
and you snatch me away from it.
1573
01:37:31,312 --> 01:37:35,136
I'd rather be a dead hero
than a live deserter.
1574
01:37:35,316 --> 01:37:38,867
I ain't gonna drop you
no matter what you say.
1575
01:37:40,855 --> 01:37:42,836
[MARCHING BAND PLAYING]
1576
01:37:44,525 --> 01:37:46,983
Hey, we can slip through here
and nobody'll see us.
1577
01:37:47,161 --> 01:37:50,985
We're in for it and we ought to report
back through the gate. That's military.
1578
01:37:51,165 --> 01:37:53,851
Yeah, and have them grab us
before we get to the general?
1579
01:37:54,035 --> 01:37:57,688
No, by dog, we'll report to General Bush's
office and explain to him in person.
1580
01:37:57,872 --> 01:37:59,796
It'll be all right, Ben, you'll see.
1581
01:38:00,808 --> 01:38:03,858
Everything seems happy.
Sounds like they're having a band concert.
1582
01:38:04,045 --> 01:38:05,332
Oh, Will.
1583
01:38:05,513 --> 01:38:08,199
It'll be all right, Ben,
they'll give us some new uniforms.
1584
01:38:08,383 --> 01:38:09,840
Yeah, with numbers on the back.
1585
01:38:10,418 --> 01:38:13,639
Let's see.
Bush's office is on the other side.
1586
01:38:13,821 --> 01:38:18,271
We'll just slip along cautious-like
and keep cover along the buildings.
1587
01:38:29,203 --> 01:38:32,526
WILL: How about that?
It's some kind of real big ceremony.
1588
01:38:32,707 --> 01:38:35,257
BEN:
Look, the flag, it's at half-mast.
1589
01:38:35,443 --> 01:38:38,061
It's a funeral ceremony, that's what it is.
1590
01:38:38,246 --> 01:38:41,865
Lieutenant Brides and them others,
they didn't get out of the plane.
1591
01:38:42,049 --> 01:38:43,768
Now we got that on our heads too.
1592
01:38:43,951 --> 01:38:49,470
Oh, now, Ben, they wasn't so easygoing
they wouldn't know they was on fire.
1593
01:38:49,657 --> 01:38:51,979
We'll find out when we report
to the general.
1594
01:38:52,160 --> 01:38:56,280
-Everything'll come out real dandy.
-Yeah, sure.
1595
01:38:58,766 --> 01:39:02,487
Ten days ago, in Operation Prometheus...
1596
01:39:02,670 --> 01:39:05,458
...the power of the atom bomb
was challenged...
1597
01:39:05,640 --> 01:39:08,690
...by a band of battle-hardened air aces.
1598
01:39:08,876 --> 01:39:12,427
Well, brush, man, brush.
That's genuine leather.
1599
01:39:12,613 --> 01:39:15,697
-Here, watch that sleeve.
-The grandstands are full, sir.
1600
01:39:15,883 --> 01:39:17,500
You're darned right they are.
1601
01:39:17,685 --> 01:39:20,371
Those men are on duty.
All leaves were canceled today.
1602
01:39:20,555 --> 01:39:23,776
Senator Hawk and Senator Winkle
have come out of the reviewing stand.
1603
01:39:23,958 --> 01:39:26,940
-Good. Good. My car here, Baker?
-I'm certain it is. I'll check.
1604
01:39:27,128 --> 01:39:30,849
Abel, check and see if those idiot
officers are on hand to be decorated.
1605
01:39:31,032 --> 01:39:32,512
Yes, sir.
1606
01:39:37,505 --> 01:39:40,862
Two did not return.
1607
01:39:41,042 --> 01:39:44,490
Two did not return.
1608
01:39:45,446 --> 01:39:48,303
In the shattered tail of the plane...
1609
01:39:48,483 --> 01:39:53,172
...all that remained
were two charred flight helmets...
1610
01:39:53,354 --> 01:39:56,745
...and a handful of dust.
1611
01:39:58,326 --> 01:40:00,011
Excuse me, sir, l--
1612
01:40:00,995 --> 01:40:03,681
What the devil are you men doing here?
1613
01:40:04,131 --> 01:40:06,351
Well, you see, sir, we come to--
1614
01:40:06,534 --> 01:40:09,254
Your uniform is filthy, boy.
1615
01:40:09,437 --> 01:40:12,828
I know, sir. We hitchhiked some,
but we had to walk a lot and--
1616
01:40:13,007 --> 01:40:15,192
People are coming from miles around.
1617
01:40:15,376 --> 01:40:19,564
Generals, senators to do homage
to two enlisted men.
1618
01:40:19,747 --> 01:40:21,602
Your brothers-in-arms.
1619
01:40:21,782 --> 01:40:24,366
And you don't even have
enough courtesy and respect...
1620
01:40:24,552 --> 01:40:26,407
...to put on a decent uniform.
1621
01:40:26,587 --> 01:40:29,740
-Sir, please, I'd like to turn myself in.
-He didn't jump, sir.
1622
01:40:29,924 --> 01:40:31,211
I pulled him out.
1623
01:40:32,260 --> 01:40:34,150
The car is ready, sir.
1624
01:40:34,428 --> 01:40:36,579
What squadron are you men in?
1625
01:40:36,764 --> 01:40:39,348
-The ninth squadron, sir.
-The ninth?
1626
01:40:39,534 --> 01:40:42,186
Stackpole and Whitehead's own outfit.
1627
01:40:42,370 --> 01:40:45,352
-Stockdale and Whitledge, sir.
-Stockdale and Whitledge, sir.
1628
01:40:46,274 --> 01:40:48,789
Well, whoever they were.
1629
01:40:48,976 --> 01:40:51,901
Now, you two are going right back
into that conference room...
1630
01:40:52,079 --> 01:40:54,128
...until I finish this ceremony.
1631
01:40:54,315 --> 01:40:57,638
And then we'll see
if we can put a little decency...
1632
01:40:57,818 --> 01:41:01,209
...and esprit de corps into you.
1633
01:41:01,389 --> 01:41:05,873
Dirty uniforms. Today of all days.
1634
01:41:06,093 --> 01:41:08,711
Well, you men heard the orders.
Get in there.
1635
01:41:13,301 --> 01:41:16,590
Well, we turned ourselves in, I think.
1636
01:41:16,771 --> 01:41:20,629
Yeah, wait until he finds out that besides
wearing dirty uniforms, we're deserters.
1637
01:41:20,808 --> 01:41:22,789
[WHISTLING]
1638
01:41:30,785 --> 01:41:32,766
[MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]
1639
01:41:45,700 --> 01:41:46,850
Ah-ah.
1640
01:41:47,034 --> 01:41:48,048
What's the matter?
1641
01:41:48,235 --> 01:41:50,352
Lieutenant Bridges on the back cover.
1642
01:41:51,405 --> 01:41:54,489
I wished you would look.
1643
01:41:54,675 --> 01:41:56,496
[DRUMROLL PLAYS OVER PA]
1644
01:41:56,677 --> 01:42:00,034
MAN [OVER PA]: General Bush has just
taken his place on the reviewing stand...
1645
01:42:00,214 --> 01:42:03,071
...and now the four lieutenants
who braved the atomic blast...
1646
01:42:03,250 --> 01:42:06,607
...and will receive the Air Medal,
are bravely mounting the platform.
1647
01:42:06,787 --> 01:42:11,043
The lieutenants. They're alive.
They're getting medals. They're heroes.
1648
01:42:11,225 --> 01:42:12,239
Golly.
1649
01:42:12,426 --> 01:42:14,748
If we'd have stayed on,
we'd have been heroes.
1650
01:42:14,929 --> 01:42:17,114
It is a solemn moment,
ladies and gentlemen.
1651
01:42:17,298 --> 01:42:20,052
The many visiting dignitaries
standing at attention...
1652
01:42:20,234 --> 01:42:23,284
...the flag at half-mast
in honor of the two men...
1653
01:42:23,471 --> 01:42:26,624
...who gave their lives
in Operation Prometheus...
1654
01:42:26,807 --> 01:42:29,231
...Privates Stockdale and Whitledge.
1655
01:42:31,345 --> 01:42:33,667
-Stockdale and Whitledge?
-Stockdale and Whitledge?
1656
01:42:33,848 --> 01:42:36,671
Yes, Stockdale and Whitledge.
1657
01:42:36,851 --> 01:42:40,641
Names that will live
as long as men are free.
1658
01:42:40,821 --> 01:42:43,371
We are heroes, Ben.
1659
01:42:43,557 --> 01:42:44,912
But we ain't dead.
1660
01:42:45,092 --> 01:42:47,141
Well, that makes it even better,
don't it?
1661
01:42:47,328 --> 01:42:51,982
They think we're heroes and we're
a couple of rotten, no-good deserters.
1662
01:42:52,466 --> 01:42:54,356
[LAUGHS]
1663
01:42:54,535 --> 01:42:58,894
Golly, will they be surprised.
1664
01:42:59,073 --> 01:43:01,964
They'll kill us, that's what they'll do.
They'll kill us.
1665
01:43:12,386 --> 01:43:14,503
Hi.
1666
01:43:20,795 --> 01:43:22,776
[MUTTERING]
1667
01:43:23,764 --> 01:43:25,585
You've gone crazy.
1668
01:43:25,766 --> 01:43:27,690
Seeing things.
1669
01:43:35,476 --> 01:43:36,490
Howdy, sergeant.
1670
01:43:36,677 --> 01:43:39,795
Private Whitledge reporting
for duty after an unforeseen delay, sir.
1671
01:43:39,980 --> 01:43:44,430
I bet you never expected
to see us again, but here we are.
1672
01:43:44,685 --> 01:43:47,041
No, no, no.
1673
01:43:47,221 --> 01:43:50,180
Didn't I tell you he'd be surprised, Ben?
1674
01:43:51,859 --> 01:43:55,979
-Why ain't you dead?
-No excuse, sir.
1675
01:43:56,497 --> 01:44:01,015
-You ain't dead. You ain't dead.
-Well, see, I had my parachute on.
1676
01:44:01,202 --> 01:44:04,787
I was the one who identified
your remains.
1677
01:44:04,972 --> 01:44:08,489
Two charred helmets
and a handful of dust.
1678
01:44:09,343 --> 01:44:12,166
-They're having a big ceremony down there.
-Yeah.
1679
01:44:12,346 --> 01:44:17,205
BUSH: Ten days ago,
in Operation Prometheus...
1680
01:44:17,384 --> 01:44:20,810
...the power of the atom bomb
was challenged....
1681
01:44:20,988 --> 01:44:22,673
-Is that the general?
-The general.
1682
01:44:22,857 --> 01:44:25,543
-Is he giving us medals?
-Medals.
1683
01:44:25,726 --> 01:44:27,616
-Now, there you go, Ben.
-General. Medals.
1684
01:44:27,795 --> 01:44:29,082
Now, get back in that room.
1685
01:44:29,263 --> 01:44:31,881
-Hey, that's no way to act, sergeant.
-Just get in there.
1686
01:44:32,066 --> 01:44:33,785
Ben and me is alive and you--
1687
01:44:33,968 --> 01:44:34,982
Stay where you are.
1688
01:44:35,169 --> 01:44:38,526
Oh, I don't deserve this,
I don't deserve....
1689
01:44:39,106 --> 01:44:41,963
Captain. Captain. Captain!
1690
01:44:42,143 --> 01:44:43,157
We'll be shot.
1691
01:44:43,344 --> 01:44:46,167
No, it's just he's
kind of surprised right now.
1692
01:44:46,347 --> 01:44:49,932
Later on they'll all be glad we're here.
You'll see.
1693
01:44:50,117 --> 01:44:54,942
Sergeant, will you--? Will you--?
What's the matter? Sar--
1694
01:44:55,122 --> 01:44:57,273
Are you nuts?
1695
01:45:02,730 --> 01:45:03,982
No.
1696
01:45:04,165 --> 01:45:05,281
Oh....
1697
01:45:05,466 --> 01:45:09,222
Don't move, you understand?
Just don't move.
1698
01:45:13,107 --> 01:45:15,327
Don't move or I'll have you shot!
1699
01:45:23,150 --> 01:45:25,700
You, get over to that reviewing stand
on the double.
1700
01:45:25,886 --> 01:45:27,605
Tell the general to stop proceedings.
1701
01:45:27,788 --> 01:45:30,212
There's radio, television
and newsreel cameras there.
1702
01:45:30,391 --> 01:45:33,748
If he gives out posthumous medals
to two men who are in his own office...
1703
01:45:33,928 --> 01:45:37,217
...he'll be the laughing
stock of the whole country.
1704
01:45:37,398 --> 01:45:39,356
Step on it!
1705
01:45:43,304 --> 01:45:45,353
Stay away from those windows,
you understand?
1706
01:45:45,539 --> 01:45:47,326
Stay away from those doors.
1707
01:45:47,508 --> 01:45:49,966
And if anybody comes in here,
you tell them you're....
1708
01:45:50,144 --> 01:45:52,227
John Jones and Jack Smith.
You got that?
1709
01:45:52,746 --> 01:45:53,896
Yes, sir.
1710
01:45:56,851 --> 01:45:58,809
They're gonna kill us.
1711
01:45:59,553 --> 01:46:03,741
-They're gonna kill us.
-No, they ain't.
1712
01:46:04,558 --> 01:46:06,243
Breathe deep.
1713
01:46:07,294 --> 01:46:08,308
What's going on here?
1714
01:46:08,495 --> 01:46:11,648
Sergeant King just jumped an air policeman
and stole his motorcycle.
1715
01:46:11,832 --> 01:46:15,724
The two men who are getting
the posthumous medals, they're inside.
1716
01:46:15,903 --> 01:46:19,124
-The medals?
-No, the men.
1717
01:46:19,406 --> 01:46:23,457
-You're drunk.
-Go ahead. Look.
1718
01:46:28,415 --> 01:46:30,600
-Who are you?
-I'm John Jones...
1719
01:46:30,784 --> 01:46:32,935
...and this here is Jack Smith.
1720
01:46:35,389 --> 01:46:38,246
Jim, if you're trying to be comical,
it'll be the last time...
1721
01:46:38,425 --> 01:46:42,283
...because jokes about the dead
is carrying it a little bit too far.
1722
01:46:45,165 --> 01:46:46,622
Well, did you stop him in time?
1723
01:46:46,800 --> 01:46:51,727
Sir, I informed him of the situation and
advised him that contrary to intelligence--
1724
01:46:51,906 --> 01:46:53,989
In English, you idiot.
1725
01:46:54,174 --> 01:46:57,656
Had he presented the medals
or had he not?
1726
01:46:57,845 --> 01:46:58,859
Yes, sir, he had, sir.
1727
01:46:59,046 --> 01:47:01,334
-Holy.
-Well, what did he say?
1728
01:47:01,515 --> 01:47:03,564
Well, sir, he said--
1729
01:47:03,751 --> 01:47:08,144
BUSH: I'll court-martial everybody
in the whole damned Air Force.
1730
01:47:08,322 --> 01:47:10,780
That's what he said, sir.
1731
01:47:12,092 --> 01:47:15,279
Where are they? Where are they?
1732
01:47:15,462 --> 01:47:20,151
Where are those two privates who hold
my career in the palm of their hands?
1733
01:47:20,334 --> 01:47:22,189
In there, sir.
1734
01:47:32,313 --> 01:47:34,328
You two.
1735
01:47:34,515 --> 01:47:35,995
Yes, sir.
1736
01:47:36,183 --> 01:47:38,266
We got back as quick as we could.
1737
01:47:38,452 --> 01:47:41,843
And I sure do appreciate
you giving us medals and all...
1738
01:47:42,022 --> 01:47:44,776
...and setting the flags at half-mast.
1739
01:47:46,026 --> 01:47:48,484
Well, I got the whole thing
figured out too, sir.
1740
01:47:49,863 --> 01:47:53,016
Well, you know that handful of dust
Sergeant King was talking about?
1741
01:47:54,835 --> 01:47:58,420
Well, that's all it was.
A handful of dust. Heh.
1742
01:47:59,940 --> 01:48:04,196
If I'd had known you all was gonna think
it was us, I'd have swept it under a seat.
1743
01:48:04,378 --> 01:48:08,805
But, anyhow, what it comes down to
is we ain't dead.
1744
01:48:09,450 --> 01:48:14,776
[MUTTERING]
1745
01:48:18,792 --> 01:48:23,981
Ten minutes ago, in front of half the brass
in the continental United States...
1746
01:48:24,164 --> 01:48:28,955
...I awarded the Air Medal
to a handful of sweepings.
1747
01:48:29,136 --> 01:48:32,562
Do you know what this is gonna do to me
when this story gets out?
1748
01:48:32,740 --> 01:48:34,027
Sir, I didn't know.
1749
01:48:34,208 --> 01:48:38,931
Tomorrow I will probably be known
throughout the entire Pentagon...
1750
01:48:39,113 --> 01:48:41,765
...as old Dustpan.
1751
01:48:45,586 --> 01:48:48,044
I've got to get those
two men off my base.
1752
01:48:48,222 --> 01:48:50,373
If anybody sees them,
if anybody hears them--
1753
01:48:50,557 --> 01:48:53,141
Sir, couldn't you transfer them
to another base?
1754
01:48:53,327 --> 01:48:56,184
Shut up. What?
1755
01:48:56,363 --> 01:48:59,083
Oh. Oh.
1756
01:49:00,267 --> 01:49:02,191
Yes.
1757
01:49:03,437 --> 01:49:07,295
You go over to S-1
and get as many DD-613 forms...
1758
01:49:07,474 --> 01:49:09,455
-...as you can lay your hands on.
-Yes, sir.
1759
01:49:09,643 --> 01:49:12,602
You, go out and get another car
and bring it around back.
1760
01:49:12,780 --> 01:49:14,670
-Quietly.
-Yes, sir.
1761
01:49:14,848 --> 01:49:18,865
Get a command car
and put the curtains up all around.
1762
01:49:21,555 --> 01:49:24,070
WILL: Well, they put us
in this here command car...
1763
01:49:24,258 --> 01:49:27,411
...and took us way out here
in the woods, real secret like...
1764
01:49:27,594 --> 01:49:30,314
...with all kinds of guards
around us and everything.
1765
01:49:32,299 --> 01:49:34,780
You know what to do.
Challenge everybody.
1766
01:49:34,968 --> 01:49:37,256
The password is: Nightmare.
1767
01:49:37,438 --> 01:49:38,986
Nightmare.
1768
01:49:39,173 --> 01:49:42,189
If anybody fails to give it, shoot.
1769
01:49:42,376 --> 01:49:45,233
Okay, sentries,
take your posts on the double.
1770
01:49:51,718 --> 01:49:54,336
Are you sure we've got
the whole area surrounded?
1771
01:49:54,521 --> 01:49:57,344
I think so, sir.
I've never done anything like this before.
1772
01:49:57,524 --> 01:49:59,243
Well, do you think I have?
1773
01:49:59,426 --> 01:50:03,318
General, it sure is exciting, ain't it?
Where's Ben?
1774
01:50:03,497 --> 01:50:09,949
Look, you just stand right over there
and let me handle this, please.
1775
01:50:10,137 --> 01:50:13,790
What the devil is keeping General Pollard?
Are the forms ready for him to sign?
1776
01:50:13,974 --> 01:50:15,329
Corporal's working on them, sir.
1777
01:50:15,509 --> 01:50:16,591
[CAR APPROACHING]
1778
01:50:19,179 --> 01:50:21,137
-That must be Pollard's car now.
-Yes, sir.
1779
01:50:21,315 --> 01:50:23,364
-Speed him up.
-Yes, sir.
1780
01:50:23,884 --> 01:50:26,308
SENTRY:
Halt. Advance and give the password.
1781
01:50:26,487 --> 01:50:27,842
[GUNSHOTS]
1782
01:50:28,188 --> 01:50:30,146
Great Scott, they've shot Pollard.
1783
01:50:30,324 --> 01:50:33,943
POLLARD: Stop. Stop. Eugene,
tell these idiots to stop shooting.
1784
01:50:34,128 --> 01:50:35,847
It's me. Vernon.
1785
01:50:36,029 --> 01:50:37,043
[GUNSHOT]
1786
01:50:37,231 --> 01:50:38,552
Give the password.
1787
01:50:38,732 --> 01:50:41,156
POLLARD:
I've forgotten the damned thing.
1788
01:50:41,335 --> 01:50:42,349
Nightmare.
1789
01:50:42,936 --> 01:50:45,224
Nightmare!
1790
01:50:45,405 --> 01:50:46,419
[GUNSHOT]
1791
01:50:46,640 --> 01:50:48,894
POLLARD:
Nightmare, you stupid--
1792
01:50:49,076 --> 01:50:50,693
Come back here, you.
1793
01:50:52,880 --> 01:50:55,805
Look, here, Eugene,
you're carrying this thing a little too far.
1794
01:50:55,983 --> 01:50:58,168
I'm sorry, Vernon,
the sentries are nervous.
1795
01:50:58,352 --> 01:50:59,366
No reason for that.
1796
01:50:59,553 --> 01:51:00,567
[LOUD POUNDING]
1797
01:51:00,754 --> 01:51:01,972
-Nightmare!
-Nightmare!
1798
01:51:03,290 --> 01:51:04,804
What's that?
1799
01:51:05,526 --> 01:51:08,917
I'm sorry, Vernon,
it's the other dead hero.
1800
01:51:09,096 --> 01:51:10,178
The talkative one.
1801
01:51:10,364 --> 01:51:12,754
I put him in the trunk for total security.
1802
01:51:12,933 --> 01:51:16,154
Ben's in the trunk? How about that?
1803
01:51:16,336 --> 01:51:19,056
-Get him out, Stockdale.
-Yes, sir.
1804
01:51:20,307 --> 01:51:23,733
Listen, Eugene, they could lower the
boom on us, pulling a deal like this.
1805
01:51:23,911 --> 01:51:25,801
We are in trouble, Vernon.
1806
01:51:25,979 --> 01:51:27,527
Clear up to our pensions.
1807
01:51:27,714 --> 01:51:30,332
Now, come on and sign those papers.
1808
01:51:34,021 --> 01:51:35,911
Howdy, Ben.
1809
01:51:37,291 --> 01:51:39,215
Oh....
1810
01:51:39,393 --> 01:51:42,352
I knew it. I knew it.
1811
01:51:42,529 --> 01:51:45,147
They got us out in the middle
of no man's land.
1812
01:51:45,332 --> 01:51:48,485
Oh, I don't know.
I think it's kind of pleasant.
1813
01:51:48,669 --> 01:51:50,320
Goodbye, Will.
1814
01:51:50,504 --> 01:51:53,759
-We just got here, Ben.
-And we ain't never going back.
1815
01:51:53,941 --> 01:51:57,264
Will, I know you didn't do it on purpose...
1816
01:51:57,444 --> 01:52:00,062
...and I know there wasn't
no meanness behind it.
1817
01:52:01,315 --> 01:52:03,102
I forgive you.
1818
01:52:04,017 --> 01:52:07,738
-Then we're buddies again?
-For a little while.
1819
01:52:07,921 --> 01:52:09,538
All right, Whitledge, you first.
1820
01:52:09,723 --> 01:52:14,047
Sentry, take him in there,
have him sign everything in triplicate.
1821
01:52:16,129 --> 01:52:19,452
-Bye, Will.
-Bye, Ben.
1822
01:52:19,633 --> 01:52:23,719
Golly, is he gonna be surprised.
1823
01:52:26,773 --> 01:52:31,666
You know, everybody's all the time saying
how sergeants is mean and tough.
1824
01:52:31,845 --> 01:52:36,465
So I'm right glad you was my first one
because you showed me different.
1825
01:52:36,650 --> 01:52:38,403
Why, thank you, Will.
1826
01:52:40,454 --> 01:52:42,935
All right, Will,
I'm gonna give you the watch anyway.
1827
01:52:43,123 --> 01:52:47,607
-Oh, gee, I never held that against you.
-Oh, go on and take it.
1828
01:52:47,794 --> 01:52:50,378
My mother would be glad for you
to have it.
1829
01:52:50,564 --> 01:52:51,816
We're square now.
1830
01:52:51,999 --> 01:52:54,423
I don't owe you nothing
and you don't owe me nothing.
1831
01:52:54,601 --> 01:52:56,286
We're square.
1832
01:52:57,404 --> 01:52:58,418
-King?
-Yeah.
1833
01:52:58,605 --> 01:53:00,563
What's the matter with that Whitledge?
1834
01:53:00,741 --> 01:53:06,533
He keeps saying he's sorry he has only
one life to give for his country.
1835
01:53:08,181 --> 01:53:10,799
He figures you brought us out here
to get shot.
1836
01:53:11,485 --> 01:53:13,067
-Shot?
-Shot.
1837
01:53:15,055 --> 01:53:17,343
Ridiculous.
1838
01:53:17,591 --> 01:53:19,776
All these witnesses, Vernon.
1839
01:53:19,960 --> 01:53:21,918
Take a smoke. Ahem.
1840
01:53:22,095 --> 01:53:25,646
All right, Stockdale, I just have
a couple of letters for you to sign...
1841
01:53:25,832 --> 01:53:28,086
...and then we'll be through
with this whole mess.
1842
01:53:28,268 --> 01:53:30,249
This one's to your folks...
1843
01:53:30,437 --> 01:53:35,421
...saying that you're
on a very important secret mission.
1844
01:53:35,609 --> 01:53:39,763
This one certifies you've never heard
of Operation Prometheus...
1845
01:53:39,946 --> 01:53:43,599
...and have never been on my base
in your entire life.
1846
01:53:43,784 --> 01:53:45,935
Sign here.
1847
01:53:49,423 --> 01:53:52,871
But, if we never heard
of Operation What You Call It...
1848
01:53:53,060 --> 01:53:55,712
-...we don't get no medals, do we?
-Medals? Of course not.
1849
01:53:55,896 --> 01:53:56,910
Sign here.
1850
01:53:57,097 --> 01:54:00,147
Ben, he sets a whole lot of stock
in medals and things like that.
1851
01:54:00,434 --> 01:54:04,758
You want me to present a medal out
in the woods in the middle of the night?
1852
01:54:04,938 --> 01:54:06,020
That's right.
1853
01:54:06,206 --> 01:54:10,565
Hey, we can get everybody standing up all
around and turn one of the cars around...
1854
01:54:10,744 --> 01:54:12,668
...so the lights are shining.
1855
01:54:12,846 --> 01:54:16,465
-Hey, maybe get a little music on the radio.
-No, no. I don't have any medals.
1856
01:54:16,650 --> 01:54:19,040
WILL: Hey, driver, would you mind turning...?
-Come back.
1857
01:54:19,219 --> 01:54:22,610
-How long is this going to take, Eugene?
-I didn't bring any medals.
1858
01:54:22,789 --> 01:54:24,269
Now what? I wanna get to bed.
1859
01:54:24,458 --> 01:54:28,475
You hear me? I said I didn't have any--
1860
01:54:31,631 --> 01:54:33,316
Oh....
1861
01:54:33,500 --> 01:54:35,617
What are you staring at?
1862
01:54:35,802 --> 01:54:40,491
Vernon, old man,
I wonder if you'd give me...
1863
01:54:40,674 --> 01:54:41,961
...one of your medals?
1864
01:54:42,142 --> 01:54:43,429
What?
1865
01:54:43,610 --> 01:54:46,501
Just one, Vernon, please.
1866
01:54:46,680 --> 01:54:49,764
You've got so many of them.
1867
01:54:49,983 --> 01:54:54,034
-What are you talking about, Eugene?
-Stockdale wants a medal.
1868
01:54:54,554 --> 01:54:56,842
That does it. He goes to Leavenworth.
1869
01:54:57,023 --> 01:54:59,846
No, no.
1870
01:55:00,026 --> 01:55:01,643
We might go with him.
1871
01:55:01,828 --> 01:55:06,312
Vernon, if you give me one of yours,
I'll give you two of mine.
1872
01:55:06,500 --> 01:55:09,755
-I swear I will.
-But these medals are sewn on.
1873
01:55:09,936 --> 01:55:11,484
BUSH: Sewn?
POLLARD: Yes, by heavens.
1874
01:55:11,671 --> 01:55:13,959
His medals are sewn on.
1875
01:55:14,141 --> 01:55:16,599
I got my mumblety-peg knife.
1876
01:55:18,211 --> 01:55:21,170
Just a small one, please, Vernon?
1877
01:55:21,348 --> 01:55:24,830
I'll do this in private, if you don't mind.
1878
01:55:25,652 --> 01:55:28,270
ANNOUNCER [OVER RADIO]:
This is radio station WQUID...
1879
01:55:28,455 --> 01:55:31,278
...now presenting a medley
of your favorite band music.
1880
01:55:31,458 --> 01:55:35,748
There's nothing else you can
think of at this moment, is there?
1881
01:55:35,929 --> 01:55:40,015
You do realize why we don't
have a brass band, don't you?
1882
01:55:40,834 --> 01:55:43,691
I wouldn't worry about that none, sir.
This here'll do fine.
1883
01:55:43,870 --> 01:55:46,055
I'll just get everybody
lined up over here.
1884
01:55:46,239 --> 01:55:47,992
[BAND MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]
1885
01:55:48,575 --> 01:55:51,693
-Y'all come on in!
KING: Resist! On the double!
1886
01:55:51,878 --> 01:55:53,802
Everybody come on in!
1887
01:55:53,980 --> 01:55:55,562
KING: On the double.
SENTRY: Come on.
1888
01:55:55,749 --> 01:55:58,105
KING:
Line up, boy, right here. Come on.
1889
01:55:58,285 --> 01:56:01,301
Come on, give me the papers.
Line up on the double.
1890
01:56:07,394 --> 01:56:10,876
I've been blackmailed,
I've been shanghaied, I've been shot at...
1891
01:56:11,064 --> 01:56:12,851
...and now I've been robbed.
1892
01:56:13,033 --> 01:56:14,047
By dog.
1893
01:56:14,234 --> 01:56:17,682
Boy, Ben's gonna pop his shirt when
both of you generals snap to attention.
1894
01:56:17,871 --> 01:56:20,022
-Do what?
-Vernon, please.
1895
01:56:20,207 --> 01:56:21,824
Never.
1896
01:56:22,008 --> 01:56:23,556
BUSH:
I'll stand at attention.
1897
01:56:23,743 --> 01:56:27,863
I'll stand on my head
if you'll just sign these papers.
1898
01:56:28,048 --> 01:56:29,062
I'll go fetch Ben.
1899
01:56:29,249 --> 01:56:31,002
-Have the orders to read?
-Yes, sir.
1900
01:56:31,184 --> 01:56:33,199
-Good.
-I'll get Ben.
1901
01:56:34,955 --> 01:56:35,969
Come on, Ben.
1902
01:56:36,156 --> 01:56:39,513
No, Will. Don't they give you
one last request or something?
1903
01:56:39,693 --> 01:56:42,743
BUSH: All right, you asked for it.
Come out and get it.
1904
01:56:42,929 --> 01:56:47,947
That's right, Ben. Now, strut right up
to the general and salute.
1905
01:56:48,435 --> 01:56:51,087
He's got something
he's gonna give you.
1906
01:56:51,371 --> 01:56:52,919
I know.
1907
01:56:53,306 --> 01:56:55,025
Goodbye, Will.
1908
01:57:05,485 --> 01:57:06,499
King.
1909
01:57:06,686 --> 01:57:09,474
"The following enlisted men
are hereby relieved of duty...
1910
01:57:09,656 --> 01:57:13,309
...and removed from the records
of Major General Eugene Bush...
1911
01:57:13,493 --> 01:57:16,714
...and transferred to the command
of Major General Vernon Pollard...
1912
01:57:16,897 --> 01:57:19,481
...U.S. Army infantry."
1913
01:57:19,666 --> 01:57:21,954
-What?
-Private Benjamin B. Whitledge.
1914
01:57:22,135 --> 01:57:26,391
-Private Will Stockdale.
-We're in the infantry, Ben.
1915
01:57:26,573 --> 01:57:27,894
-The infantry?
-Yeah.
1916
01:57:28,074 --> 01:57:29,622
Well, so long, boys.
1917
01:57:29,809 --> 01:57:31,733
It's been swell knowing you.
1918
01:57:31,912 --> 01:57:33,665
-So long, sergeant.
-So long, sergeant.
1919
01:57:33,847 --> 01:57:36,635
Wish I could be going along with you,
but that's life.
1920
01:57:38,351 --> 01:57:41,105
Hey, couldn't he, sir?
Couldn't he go along with us?
1921
01:57:41,288 --> 01:57:44,736
Brilliant idea, Stockdale. Brilliant.
1922
01:57:44,925 --> 01:57:47,110
No, no, no.
1923
01:57:47,294 --> 01:57:50,879
-We are still gonna be together.
-In the infantry.
1924
01:57:51,064 --> 01:57:52,783
What happened?
1925
01:57:52,966 --> 01:57:55,117
Detail, attention.
1926
01:57:55,302 --> 01:57:58,591
That's one thing I won't do.
1927
01:57:59,239 --> 01:58:01,595
ANNOUNCER:
Station WQUID signing off.
1928
01:58:01,775 --> 01:58:04,666
[DRUMROLL OVER RADIO]
1929
01:58:06,746 --> 01:58:10,467
It gives me great pleasure
to award this Air Medal...
1930
01:58:10,650 --> 01:58:12,938
...which through a regrettable error...
1931
01:58:13,119 --> 01:58:15,976
...was previously
awarded posthumously...
1932
01:58:16,156 --> 01:58:20,242
...to Private Benjamin B. Whitledge...
1933
01:58:20,427 --> 01:58:23,909
...U.S. Army infantry.
1934
01:58:24,364 --> 01:58:26,254
MAN:
Present arms.
1935
01:58:26,433 --> 01:58:28,414
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1936
01:58:54,995 --> 01:58:56,976
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