All language subtitles for The.Real.Glory.1939.WEBRip.x264-ION10

But, gentlemen, this is Mysang,
the heart of the Moro country

the poison spot
of the Philippines.

To take the army out of there
at this time is suicide.

I tell you, you mustn't
let them do it.

You know what happened at Tagula.

Alipang's on the march, he's
taking village after village.

I tell you, we mustn't withdraw
the troops from Mysang.

Quite so, colonel,
on the other hand

I mustn't quarrel
with the war department.

They've ordered the army
out of Mysang at once.

What happens to those
poor Philippine natives?

You'll train them
to defend themselves.

Against Alipang?

I couldn't get them ready
in 10 years.

And I'm afraid
Alipang won't wait that long.

He's got thousands
of Moro bandits in the jungle

just waiting
for the American army to leave.

It'll be slaughter.

You'll have to stop him,
Colonel Hatch.

With what? Raw native troops?

Yes, with native troops.

As long as our army's there the
Filipinos will depend on them.

Sooner or later, they'll have
to take care of themselves.

It's your job to prepare them.

We're making Mysang
a sort of test.

If it works out there,
it's bound to work out

in the rest of the islands.

Well, I can tell you now
as soon as Alipang learns

the troops have left,
he'll pounce on us.

In 48 hours,
I'll be screaming for help.

There'll be no one listening,
colonel.

These are the men
who are going to help you.

'This is Manning, we picked him'
'because he knows the Moro country.'

'This is Hartley,
the best drillmaster'

'and disciplinarian
in the service.'

'This is Larson. He never
disobeyed an order in his life.'

'And this is McCool, he never
took an order in his life'

but he's the best one-man army
in the Philippines.

- Who's that?
- This?

Oh, this is, uh..

...Canavan, the doctor.

He's been ordered to Mysang
to keep the other four alive.

Your orders, colonel.

- Thank you, sir.
- Good luck.

Alright, men, fall in.
Come on, Jake!

Hey, Jake! Come on!

Alright, men.
Get in, get in.

Look alive, men.

We, who are about to die,
salute you.

Now, padre,
I've tried to tell you--

We have been praying
since dawn for a miracle

that would stop the American
troops from leaving Mysang.

I'm afraid not even a miracle
can change the orders

of the General Staff, padre.

Now, I've been here
for some time.

Let me tell you
what'll happen here.

I have been here all my life.

I know what will happen here.
And soon. Soon.

Alipang is bringing together
all the Moro tribes on Mindanao.

As soon as the American troops
are gone

the Moros will come down
from the hills.

'They will kill all the men,
and carry away'

all the women and children
into slavery.

For you, it will be
a report written in ink.

But for my people, it will be
a report written in blood.

Hard on your starboard,
hard on board, boys.

How many American officers
have been left?

A handful.

One by one,
they must be destroyed

until they send the troops
into the jungle to seek revenge.

- Who's in command of the post?
- Colonel Hatch.

We begin with him. Amal.

- Let me carry the bags!
- Let me carry the bags!

- Let me carry the bags!
- Let me carry the bags!

- Let me carry the bags!
- Let me carry the bags!

- Let me carry the bags!
- Let me carry the bags!

Say, uh..

...you haven't,
by any chance, got leprosy?

What's the Indian sign you've
got on those other kids, anyway?

- You're not Filipino, are you?
- No.

A Moro?

Oh, so that's it.

- What's your name?
- Miguel.

Alright, Mike, you can take my
bags up to the headquarters.

You bet your life.

- Swede.
- Look. It's Bill.

The doc.

Oh.

Company, dismissed!

Dismissed!

Bill, you old sawbones.

- How are you?
- How are you?

- Hiya, Doc, welcome to Mysang.
- How are you, Swede?

- You still boiling your water?
- Did you bring any beer?

- How's "Vinegar" Steffens, huh?
- Oh.

They call the old colonel
"Honey Boy" Steffens now.

I took out a gallstone
out of him.

- You did?
- Yeah. Oh, here.

Present for you.

Oh, how did you know?

All my life,
I've wanted a gallstone.

Still collecting orchids, Swede?

- Sure.
- Here.

Oh! Orchidaceae dendrobium.

Hey, I-I've been looking
for one of these all my life.

Ain't that a beauty?

Colonel Hatch, this is that Datu
I told you about

the friendly Moro chieftain.

- He's been very helpful.
- How do you do?

Sit down.

Colonel, the Datu agrees
that there'll always be trouble

as long as Alipang's around.

There will never be peace

until you go into the jungle
and destroy him.

We're not going into the jungle
or any other place.

We're here to preserve peace
and train the native troops.

Say, what kind of a place
is this?

- What have you got around here?
- Oh, everything.

- Malaria, small pox, typhoid..
- Poker, pinochle, blackjack.

Lice, mice, alligators,
crocodiles

red ants, white ants,
and now rats.

The Smith brothers.

They're collaborating with me
on some work I'm doing on beriberi.

Quran says that rats
are creatures of ill omen.

Well, Captain,
it's in our laps now.

Now on, the little brothers will
have to stand on their own feet.

- If they can.
- If they can.

Allah!

Better go in, padre.

I thought I missed
when I shot at that juramentado

but I guess I didn't.

Had enough lead in him
to sink a battleship.

Doctor, a juramentado
is like a horse.

The only place to stop them
is right here.

Only you feel sorry
for the horse.

I've heard of these fanatics
that go berserk.

But I never saw one before.

I wonder what kept
the bugger going

with all those slugs in him?

Must be some drug.

The drug that keeps them going
is what keeps most of us going.

Faith, good or bad.

The juramentadobelieves
that when he kills an infidel

it is a passport to heaven.

But I didn't know
they selected their victims.

I thought they just attacked
the first Christian they met?

I am a Christian,
yet he didn't attack me.

Well, perhaps,
I am not a good Christian.

Goodnight, senores.

Goodnight, padre.

Well, when you come
to think of it

that Moro went right by
the bunch of us

'to get to one man,
the commanding officer.'

I wouldn't be surprised if, uh..

Bolo cut?

'Do you ever have headaches?'

- No.
- 'Dizzy spells?'

No. I'm perfectly alright.

You must have a skull
of cast iron.

Bad place for a bolo cut,
the nerve center.

- I knew a man up in Samar..
- 'Coconut raft?'

What were you doing
in the jungle?

Who are these men?

Couple of Moros
who don't belong in the village.

Where did you find them?

Well, we went for a little
stroll and we, uh..

...found them prowling around
on the edge of the jungle.

Lieutenant, you know
the orders about reprisals.

Captain, all I know is that
Colonel Hatch--

He gave the orders.

Come in to the office.

Captain, look, give me a squad.

Let us try some of this
juramentadobusiness.

That's what I wanna
talk to you about.

Gentleman, I've been looking
over Colonel Hatch's notes.

His plan of procedure.

He felt that Alipang
would use every effort

to lure us into the bush
before we were ready.

'Well, he was right.'

That juramentado
was Alipang's first move.

But it won't work.

We're going to stay right
in our own backyard.

Here's an order
Colonel Hatch prepared

forbidding any move
into the jungle

until the native troops
are fully trained.

'Never got a chance to sign it.'

How am I gonna get any orchids
if we can't go out in the jungle?

Ask him if we can go a little way.

- Go on. Ask him.
- Shut up.

Well, it's signed.

Captain Hartley, it's your job

to make soldiers
out of these Filipinos

if you have to work them
24 hours a day.

From now on, it's drill.

Drill, drill, drill!

Left arm, cut and parry, engage!

Right arm, cut and parry, engage!

Two, three, four.

Right, left.

Hey, you, number three!
Right face!

Chest out!

Stomach in! Raise shoulder!

Left! Right!

Forward, double time, march!

Hurry it up. Hurry it up.
Come on.

Over the wall. Come on.

Come on. Come on.

Come on, come on.

That was lovely, boys.

Left arm, cut and parry.

'Over the wall.'

Come on. Come on.

Ready! Come on,
come on, come on, quicker!

Like a lot of old women
in a sewing circle.

It's still too slow!
Do it again!

'March, left,
hup, two, three, four.'

'That's it.
Left, right, left.'

- One, two, three--
- Lieutenant Yabo.

Company, halt!

Why are these men
drilling without shoes?

TenienteCanavan,
he said take them off.

Oh, he did, did he?
Have them put them on again.

Si, capitan.

Sergeant.

- Yes, sir.
- What's going on here?

Tenientesay we do this
one hour every day.

- Teniente--
- Tenientewho?

TenienteCanavan.

What do you mean by telling the
men they could drill without shoes?

Shoes? Oh, yes.

Well, it was just a suggestion,
I happened to be passing by

and they were having
an awful time. In agony.

They've got to get used
to shoes, sooner or later.

Well, don't you suppose
it can be done gradually?

After all,
men weren't born with shoes.

Dr. Canavan probably meant it
as a health measure.

Is it a health measure
to rig up a dummy

and have men standing around
pulling its nose?

Oh, that.

That was just
a little applied psychology.

The Filipinos
are scared stiff of this

uh, what's-his-name, Alipang.

They jump when you mention his name.
That's why I rigged up that dummy.

Stupid.

You wouldn't think it was stupid
if you'd seen

the shaking line-up of men
at sick call

after Hatch was killed.

Sick call is a good excuse
to avoid work.

I know.

And it's true that there was
nothing organically

wrong with those men,
but they were sick

just the same, sick with fear.

And when fear becomes so deep
and unreasoning, it's a disease.

It'll be cured when they learn
how to handle a gun.

You stick to your pills.

And I'll take care
of the training schedule.

Captain, there's a man who
either has high blood pressure

or something on his mind.

Just as I've always dreamed it.

Taken me years to find,
but here it is.

As green as Ireland,
not a snake in the place

and a beach like powdered sugar.

- Have you seen my fatigues?
- Look, Bill.

Ten miles south of there.

Mac, don't tell me you've
finally found your island?

Yeah. And as soon as we finish
up this job, I'm moving in.

That'll be the world
of Terence McCool.

A darling of an island.
A Garden of Eden.

You better start looking
for an Eve.

Oh, no, I want peace and quiet.

Hey!

Come here.

- Where'd you find them?
- Under bed, but it need shine.

No want dinero. Want them.

What for?

Anting-anting. Bring good luck.

Well, didn't you tell me Moros
weren't afraid of anything?

You bet your life.

Well, what you want
anting-anting for?

Moro no afraid of things
he can see

only afraid of things
he can't see.

Well, uh, what about bullets?
You can see them.

No see bullets.
Bullets.. Zzz.

You no believe in anting-anting?

Then what you got those rats for?

Oh, uh, well.

They're to help me find out
something I want to know.

- Something you no see?
- That's it.

Anting-anting.

Hey, doc!
Come here a minute, will you?

Look, doc. One of Swede's
orchids is due for the stalk.

- Well, how soon, Larson?
- Any day now.

Do you know, I do a lot of this
pollinating in my spare time.

Think it'll have to be
a cesarean?

Well, it all depends.
What kind is it?

'It's a Paphiopedilum.'

Just a plain Paphiopedilum?

Oh, no, it's a Paphiopedilum
fairrieanum.

Oh!

Oh, that's nothing. You know,
I wanna get a white orchid.

That's why I'm down here.

You gotta go an awful long way

before you run across
a white orchid.

It's called Cragg.

It fires many bullets at once.

- How many they have?
- Three hundred.

- Bullets?
- Enough.

One of these guns worth 20 bulls.

If we get them,
you be sultan of Mindanao.

We must get them now.

No, no, Tuan.

They must attack us.

But why they wait?

We kill commander.
Why they not send men?

Perhaps when we send
the juramentado

to kill the new commander,
Manning, they send men.

Oh, Steve!

'Aren't you coming down
to the landing?'

'I want you to meet my wife.'

Yes, certainly. Go on ahead.

I'll be with you
in a few minutes.

Right.

Linda, if you believe in marriage

never say yes to a soldier.

Ever since I've been married,
I've been chasing

my husband all over the world.

I haven't seen him this time
in over a year.

I know just how you feel.

I haven't seen my father
in over four years.

I hope he recognizes me.

Hey. Hey!

Do you got a box there for me?
Larson. L-A-R-S-O-N.

Bill. Bill!

Bill, look, I got a letter
from a lawyer in Manila.

I wrote to him just
to make quite sure.

And they say they've found
the titles to the island.

It doesn't belong to anybody.
I can just move right in.

I don't even have to buy it,
so what I'm going to do..

Hey, Bill, Mac,
look, my orchid seeds arrived

from Battlement Gordon.

Oh, darling.

Oh, George, my ribs!

Oh, bless your ribs.
Bless your heart. Bless you.

Um, a-as president
of the reception committee

of the port of Mysang--

- Linda!
- Pardon me.

Linda, this is the man
I've been telling you about.

- How do you do?
- How do you do?

Ladies, may I present
Lieutenants McCool

Canavan, and Larson.

This is Mrs. Manning
and Captain Hartley's daughter

Miss Linda Hartley.

- How do you do?
- But, George.

Where's Captain Hartley?

Should be here now.
I just left him.

Oh, he's right, will you come
with us, yeah, over..

Yeah, we know, over here.

How long do you expect to stay,
Miss Hartley?

As long as my father will let me.

I know I'm going to like it here.

Larson here spends all his time
in his horticulture

and the doctor has his hands
full of patients and things

but I have nothing to do. I'd
love to show you all the sights.

The public library,
the art museum.

And we could swim out 10 miles
and see my island.

I'd like to show you my orchids
sometime, Miss Hartley.

Oh, I'm not at all busy
with patients.

I only have two.
A couple of rats.

- One of them is pretty sick.
- What's the matter with him?

Dying of a lonely heart,
like I am.

Well, here you are, Miss Hartley.
Here's, here's where you live.

Well, thank you.

Thank all of you.

- Linda!
- Dad!

How did you..
When did..

- I couldn't believe my eyes.
- Didn't you recognize me?

I-I, w-w-well, you've changed.
Where are the freckles?

What did you do with the skinny
legs and your braids?

You see, if I'd waited any longer
I'd have been an old woman.

After the earthquake
at San Francisco

I just made up my mind.

You'll never know
how much I worried about you.

Even when I knew you were safe

I wanted to hop the first boat.

And I beat you to it.

Why didn't you write
you're coming?

I was too smart.

You might've said no.

Oh, you are glad to see me,
aren't you?

Glad?

Linda, you're the one person in
the world I wanted to see most.

I have the cutest little place
fixed up in Manila.

Right near the Luneta.

Oh, darling, could you possibly
be as happy as I am?

We're going to have to change
our plans a little.

Don't tell me there's been another
delay in your leave of absence.

My leave's off.

I'm assigned here indefinitely.

George, it was all arranged.

Sorry, Mabel.
Can't be helped.

- The CO died, and..
- Who?

Colonel Hatch.
You never met him.

So, you see,
that puts me in command.

Well, it was a mighty
nice little house

but I guess we can make
this one do.

No.

Oh, George.

Sorry, Mabel.

All the way over I kept thinking
how wonderful it would be

to drop in on you like this.

As if I'd come from
just around the corner.

Well, dad, what happened?

Oh, I got it last year.

But it's alright now.

We'll paint the town red.
We'll have a wonderful time.

The boat stops over
for four whole days.

Four days?

Oh, no. This time you don't
get rid of me so easily.

- I'm here for keeps.
- Linda, I'm sorry.

But that's impossible just now.

There's nothing I'd like better

but you couldn't have
chosen a worse time.

I wouldn't have much time
for you, darling.

You'd be alone most of the time.

I've been alone most of the time.

I know.

Manning.

Come on. Buck up, old girl.
It's your party.

Sorry, darling.

I was just trying to get
used to the idea

of going back again without you.

Buy you a drink.

And tonight,
just before I came over here

the rat that had been
getting polished rice died.

Died of beriberi.

Hm! No beriberi on my island.

No rats. No mice.

No doctors.

You should see it as I first
saw it, shining in the sun

a pearl set in turquoise.

A pimple in the Pacific.

Excuse me, Miss Hartley.

I'm officer of the day
and I won't be able to stay

for the dancing,
and I thought if you, I..

- Here.
- Why, thank you, Lieutenant.

Why, it's lovely.

I've never seen one
like this before.

It's a Paphiopedilum fairrieanum.

Oh, no, Bill, it's
a Brassocattleya trufuttiana.

Don't let him scare you.
It's just an orchid.

- W-will you wear it?
- I'd love to.

- I brought a pin.
- Thank you.

I'm breeding a species
of my own, a white orchid

and, well, I'd,
I'd like to name it after you.

Orchidaceae Linda.
If, if-if you don't mind.

Well, I'd be greatly honored.

Oh, thanks, that's..
I gotta go now.

I-I gotta pollinate.

To us.

Linda. That's Spanish
for beautiful.

Linda.
That's what I'll call my island.

Linda Island. Look.

It's 10 miles off there

with a beach like swan's down
when you stretch out on it

and gaze up at the powder puff
clouds.

'And the birds sing,
and your heart sings with them.'

Then the sea steals up
and tickles your toes

which is bad if you're ticklish.

Uh..

Oh, I see.

How long have you been
in the service?

Three years.

I expect to quit next year

and hang up my shingle back home.

I'd never quit
if I were in the army.

You like the service?

I think it's the most wonderful
career in the world.

When I was six, my greatest ambition

was to be a top sergeant
for my father's company.

- Queer ambition for a girl.
- I don't see why.

The happiest time of my life was
when I was a kid at the Presidio.

'Most children had to be
satisfied with toy soldiers.'

But I had real ones.

Most of my male ancestors
were soldiers

with a remarkable talent
for getting killed.

When I was 10,
my father bought me a uniform.

I liked it much better
than any dress I ever had.

I guess I should have
been born a boy.

Oh, no.

Uh, my great-grandfather
was Wellington's adjutant.

He lost a leg at Waterloo.

My grandfather,
he was only a sergeant major

he drowned in his own blood at
the Alamo with David Crockett.

- Really?
- My father lies at Chickamauga.

And lies. And lies,
and lies, and lies.

Datu, there's something
I'd like you to do for me.

Very glad.

My wife's going back to Manila

and I'd like to give her
a little present.

You deal in pearls,
and I thought maybe--

I could get you some,
but not before the boat leaves.

Oh, that's too bad,
I did want to--

There is a lace peddler outside,
with shawls and scarves.

He may have something
your wife might like.

Oh. Thank you, Datu.

- Go in, Zeruphina.
- Okay.

You better go home
and get some rest.

Isn't there anything I can do?

She's alright now.

She'll need some looking after

when she comes out of it, though.

I'll hang around.

She was so happy
when I met her on the boat.

All she could talk about was him
and how she was going to

take him back to Manila with her.

'She was so frantic to get here,
and..'

- What brought you here?
- An earthquake.

The one at San Francisco.

It was ghastly.

Everywhere people were
crying out, calling for help.

The living and the dying,
all calling for someone.

Suddenly I found myself
doing the same thing.

I was calling to my father.

I hadn't seen him for years,
he was thousands of miles away

and yet I called to him
as if he really could help me.

Funny, wasn't it?

No. No.

People always have to have
somebody to call to

when they're in trouble.

You find that out
when you attend the dying.

If they haven't got somebody,
they usually invent somebody.

Even when they're not in
trouble, people make up people.

I used to do it when I was
a kid, my kid sister and I.

I invented my first patient.

Who was he?

The President
of the United States.

Really?

He had a strange new malady.
Nobody knew what it was.

All the specialists in the world
couldn't do a thing for him

till they sent for me.

Cured him. Just like that.

I guess that's what
made me decide

on the medical profession.

George!

And from now on,
I want double sentry duty.

Larson, round up every Moro
living in the village

take them to the guardhouse.
Go on.

Yes, sir.

McCool, I want a stockade
built around the fort

and beyond that barbed wire.
All we've got. Go on.

Yes, sir.

Yabo, instruct the guard,
nobody's allowed inside

without a special pass.
Nobody. Go on.

Yes, sir.

Captain, if a Moro can go
juramentado

why can't a white man?

There'll be no expeditions, alone

or in groups
under any circumstances.

Those are still the orders.

The Moro that killed Captain
Manning had this around his neck.

All the Moros wear anting-anting
to protect them.

From what? The Moros aren't
afraid of anything.

Not even death.

I am not afraid of death, either

yet you see I wear
an anting-anting, too.

It is a symbol of something
you believe in.

And if you believe in something,
it's so.

That's true.

Take a look in here.

'Those men all believe
in something.'

Fear.
They're all sick with fear.

Canavan.

I'm not gonna stand
for this business

of turning your hospital
into a refuge for slackers.

There are more men in here
than there are

on the parade ground drilling.

If it keeps up,
they'll all be in.

- You're right, captain, but--
- Get them out.

There's nothing the matter
with them.

Yes, there is.

That Moro that struck
Captain Manning down

struck them down, too.

But not with a bolo.

They're down with a disease
medicine can't cure.

They'll be alright
when they learn how to use a gun

when they're properly drilled.

The trouble is, you're trying
to drill things into them

when you should be
drilling things out of them.

What good's a gun
when your finger's

so paralyzed with fright
that you can't pull a trigger?

Sergeant, get these men out of
here. Have them report for duty.

From now on there'll be
no more of this pampering.

All he knows comes out
of a book of regulations.

He's so hipped on uniforms,
he never stops

to consider
what's inside of them.

Like trying to talk to a stone wall.

You said yourself
it was a disease

that medicine can't cure.

Yes. But there must be a cure.

If I only knew
the Achilles' heel of the Moro.

What he's afraid of.

- There must be something.
- There is something.

The Moro is not afraid to die

but he's mortally afraid
of being buried in a pigskin.

Pigskin?

Ridiculous, isn't it?

But not to the Moro.

He believes it sends him
straight to hell.

Father Felipe..

...you've done it.

You've isolated the germ for me.

The pigskin might be
the salvation of Mysang.

I'd rather have
the American army.

Hey, hey, hey, hey.
What's going on here?

I got orders to round up
all the Moros in the village

and put them in the guardhouse.
Come on.

No, wait a minute.

All the village Moros
are friendly.

Hartley says round 'em up.

Well, Mike here, he's just a kid.

He was born and raised here.

He's a Moro.

Well, you leave him with me
and I'll turn him in.

Alright, Bill, but you tell Hartley.

I don't want any part of it.

I won't go to guardhouse.

I'll, I'll run away to jungle.

You mustn't do that, Mike.
You'll get into trouble.

No trouble for me in jungle.

You know your way around
in the bush?

You bet your life.

Then get a couple of canteens
and some rope

and wait for me
down at the bridge.

- We, we go to the jungle?
- Yeah.

You better take your anting-anting.

I've got anting-anting.
Now, you better get going.

What is it?

What is it, Mike?

Spear trap.

Jungle's full of them.

Alipang's gang.

What're they doing?

They're fixing juramentado
to run amuck.

Alipang sending juramentado
to kill Hartley.

Get the canteens.

Tie him up, Mike.

It was such a pretty
little house.

Right near the Luneta.

Linda, if you're ever in love
with a man

don't leave him

not for a single second.

Well, I guess that's about all.

You'd better run along now
and do your own packing.

I'll see you at the boat.

Linda, you know
you haven't packed yet.

Any news of Dr. Canavan?

'No.'

Linda, don't think I like
shipping you out like this.

What do you suppose
happened to him, dad?

I don't know.

I want you to wire me
as soon as you get home.

You can send the telegram to Manila
and it'll be forwarded to me here.

Aren't you even going to send
out a searching party?

What for?

When a man deliberately
disobeys an order--

But he's a non-combatant,
perhaps he didn't realize

your order applied to him,
the least you can do is--

I've told you I'm not gonna
risk any more lives

searching for an insubordinate
fool!

But he's not.
You don't know him, dad.

Wherever he is, he's doing
something for somebody else.

I don't see how you can be
so cold-blooded

when your best man..
Well, one of your best men.

What makes you so interested
in Canavan all of a sudden?

Well, I'm not, I.. I'd feel
the same way about anybody.

You'd better finish packing.

You don't want to hold up the boat.

I've just been talking to Yabo.
He says if we ever see the doc again

it'll be in a pit
with his head sticking out

covered with honey and some ants
crawling around him.

Hey, what're you doing, Mac?
Hey, wait a minute, Mac.

You can't do this.
Hartley's given strict orders.

Nobody in their right senses--

Who said I was
in my right senses?

I got a touch of the sun.

Wait a minute, Mac.
I got a touch of that sun, too.

Juramentado!

Hey, Swede, look.

You, you dimwitted crack.

You ought to have been caught
and had your head

stuffed full of honey and put in an ant
heap. You should have fell in a ditch.

- Where've you been?
- What do you got here?

- Genus Homo Moro juramentado.
- Oh! Oh!

Yabo!

Sir.

- Get that pigskin.
- Si, senor.

Everybody, come here.

I wanna talk to you.

Come on. Come on in closer.

This is what you were afraid of
when the American soldiers went home.

You were sad,
and you should have been happy.

Happy because
this is your country.

And if it's your country,
you've got to protect it.

But you never will as long as
you're afraid of men like this.

'He thinks you're only fit
for slaves'

'and that's because
you act like slaves.'

Fear has made you slaves.

Take a look at him.

If we were to cut him open

we'd find he only had
one heart, one stomach

approximately 25 feet
of intestines.

No more and no less
than you have.

Then what makes him a better man?

You!

Because you're afraid of him.

I'll show you
what you're afraid of.

Yabo!

Alright, now tell him we're gonna
bury him in the pigskin.

Put him in it.

Alright, let him go.

Now look at him.

Your brave Moro.

Your terrible warrior

who won't let you work
your rice fields

or fish the seas in peace.

'How can you be afraid of that
worm' 'crawling on the ground'

'howling for mercy,
begging for help'

scared out of his skin because
of the skin of a dead pig!

Oh, take a good look at him.

Listen to him muffering.

Is that the man to be afraid of?

Larson, take this man
to guardhouse.

- Yes, sir.
- Yabo.

Get these men back
to their drilling.

- Yes, sir.
- And you, come to my office.

Fall in!

You knew what my orders were
about going out in the jungle.

Captain, you ought to frame
that pigskin.

Those men have had
a shot in the arm

vaccinated against fear
and I think it's gonna work.

We've deliberately avoided
making trouble with Alipang

until the troops
were properly trained.

Well, you fixed that.

Raiding their camp,
capturing a prisoner.

You've got 'em all stirred up.

In all probability,
they'll attack.

No, no, that's not their plan.

Their plan is to kill
every officer

on the post first.

Hatch and Manning
were the beginning.

- I found that out.
- I don't care what you found out.

You've been a meddling fool
right from the start and now

you've disobeyed orders.

I'm warning you.

If you step over the line again
I'll confine you to quarters.

That's all.

That juramentadohe captured

must have been on his way
to kill you.

I imagine Dr. Canavan
saved your life.

Yes. I know.

Next time you're gonna play
those games in the jungle

why don't you take me with you?

I'm rather good
at that sort of thing, I can

start a fire by rubbing two boy
scouts together

and I can even cross a river
in a paper bag

when I'm in good form.

I couldn't think of it, Mac.

That would be disobeying orders.

I'll be in in a minute, Mac.

You're leaving today, aren't you?

Well, in case I don't see you..

I was worried for fear
I wouldn't get back

in time to say goodbye.

We were all worried, for fear
you wouldn't get back at all.

Goodbye.

Goodbye.

Didn't take me that long
to say goodbye to her.

"Parting is such sweet sorrow

that I shall say goodnight
till it be morrow."

- Alack, my friend--
- Shut up, you ape.

All packed, Linda?

I'm not going.

Canavan?

I'm afraid I must insist
that you take the boat, Linda.

I'm sorry, father.
I'm staying here.

We must change our plans,
Alipang.

They never come
to the jungle to fight.

Yes, they will.

They come to jungle.

What's the matter?
Hey, what's the matter?

Hey. What are they talkin' about?

Oh, they says the water went down

two feet in the last hour.

Oh.

Perhaps there's been a landslide that
made the river change its course.

No, it happened too quickly for that.

Maybe it disappeared
into a subterranean channel.

- Or something.
- Captain.

I just came back from the hills.

I saw many Moros carry
bamboo, rocks.

Alipang, he dammed up the river.

Another trick to lure us out
in the jungle.

- But it won't work.
- But the river--

We don't need the river.

The old well, we'll use that.

We'll rig up a still
and use seawater.

A man named Cragg
invented the repeating rifle

and a man named Jenner
invented vaccinations.

And if the Philippines
ever becomes

a nation of its own,
who'll get the credit?

Cragg.

- But who will it belong to?
- Ouch!

Jenner.

The whole post's in an uproar
about a few Moros

when all around them
are billions of enemies..

...whole regiments of disease

to a few of which you are now
more or less immune.

Thank you.

Thank you, too, for saving
my father's life.

I heard about it.

Say, what's the matter
with your father, anyway?

- What's he afraid of?
- Afraid?

He acts like a little boy
who's lost his way home

and is scared somebody's gonna
find out about it.

Why doesn't he do something
about the river and why doe--

Every time you mention my
father, you criticize him.

'I'm sorry.'

TenienteCanavan.

When you bring in Moro prisoner

you said this is our country,
we must protect it.

Teniente,we are ready now.

Say that again.

Alipang dry up our river.

The people are frightened.

We don't know
what Alipang does next.

We want to fight, teniente.

'We would rather die
than live like this.'

We think maybe you speak
to Captain Hartley.

Come on!

Captain Hartley,
now's your chance.

These boys aren't
afraid of Alipang anymore.

He's got them fighting mad.

They want to go now
and have it out with him.

- Go where?
- Into the jungle, after him.

That's out of the question.

But listen, captain,
if these boys

are ever gonna lick Alipang,
this is the moment.

We'll lick him by staying
right here.

Yabo, take these men
back to drilling.

- Wait! Look here, captain--
- That's all!

No, that isn't all.

You were sent down here
to train these men

till they were ready
to defend themselves.

Well, they're ready now,
and if you

can't see that,
you're as blind as a bat.

- Canavan.
- What are you waiting for?

If this place
is the testing ground

the independence
of the Philippines

rests with those boys.

Well, they say
they're ready to be tested.

What right have you got
to stand in their way?

You're forgetting yourself.

They're fighting for existence

and nothing's gonna stop them.

And if they let you do it,
they're just plain stupid.

Canavan..

...you're under arrest
for insubordination.

Yabo, confine him
to his quarters.

Doctor, there are some sick people
in the village who need attention.

Tell 'em to boil their water.

Give them mag sulph.

Maybe they need
a little drilling.

You better get out
and look 'em over.

I'm confined to quarters.

I've decided to suspend
your order of arrest.

And I've decided
to remain here during

the rest of my stay
at Mysang. I'm sorry.

If you persist in this attitude

you will force me
to prefer charges against you.

Fine, I hope
you use your influence

to have me cashiered.

Save me the bother of resigning.

Doctor!

Dr. Canavan.

He is sick. Very sick.

- What is it?
- Cholera.

'And up into the corners,
the walls'

the shelves and everything.
Use plenty of carbolic.

No fresh fruit sold in the store.

No coconuts, bananas, mangoes.

Nothing. Understand?

Boil your water.
Scald all your dishes.

And don't serve
any uncooked food of any kind.

Understand?
And tell the other women.

All food for the patients must
be cooked in company kitchens.

And no food shipped
in and out of the harbor.

Yes, sir.

Get some men started digging lime
and post a guard by the well.

And no water
to be taken out of it.

- Yes, sir.
- Doctor.

Here's the list
of supplies I need.

Cottonseed oil, calamo

all the canned milk
you've got in the storehouse.

Buckets, shovels,
and add lime and..

Don't you think
you could read this better

if you held it right-side up?

There's one thing
that isn't on that list

that we need
more than anything else. Water.

- There's the old well.
- It's no good. It's polluted.

That's what started the cholera.

And it's not only drinking water
we need, it's sewage.

The whole village
is a mess of pollution.

You've got to send somebody
up into the hills

to dynamite the dam.

It's sure death to send anybody.

It's sure death here
unless we get running water.

It's out of the question.

If we don't get running water
in Mysang pretty soon

there won't be any Mysang.

Better get down
to the village quick, doc

they're dropping like flies.

No more water. Put it back.

Dr. Canavan said,
anybody who tries

to get water here, shoot him.

Alright, come on, step it up.

The doc needs the lime.
Step it up.

Take everything out of here,
that bedding

the mattress, and everything
and burn it.

On your way. On your way.

Come on, on your way.
You got to get out of here.

What are you going to do with all
these families you're evicting?

Drown 'em. How do I know

what I'm gonna do with 'em?

I'm sorry. I've gotta
figure that out later.

First we've got to clear out
all these infected houses.

What are you doing here anyway?

I want to help.

You see that lime over there?

Make a saturated solution, then go

from house to house
and disinfect the dishes.

Doc, there are some more people
for the hospital.

The hospital's full now.

But we can use the clubhouse.

I'll get blankets
and prepare for them.

Thank you, padre.

Doc! They need you
over at the hospital.

- Hey! What's going on here?
- He throw me in guardhouse.

- I no go with him.
- Go where?

Captain Hartley's given me
orders to dynamite the dam.

I'm taking the squad with me.
We need Mike to show us the way.

I no go!

Mike, I need running water bad.

You bet your life.

So long, Bill.

- Goodbye, Mac.
- Godspeed.

Oh-ho. What orchids
I'm gonna bring back.

I hope it won't be lilies.

You're just about as jumpy
as the rest of us.

Last night when a man
went down to relieve

the sentry by the river,
the sentry shot at him.

They're so nervous around here,
they're shooting at shadows.

- Captain.
- Yes.

Larson should've been back
long ago.

Well?

Well, what are you gonna
do about it?

I can't spare any men.

Suppose there's an attack
on the post.

I wish there were.
So does everyone else.

Why hasn't it come?

- Why don't we do something?
- McCool!

I'm sorry, sir.

What's wrong with you?

Nothing.

Better see Dr. Canavan.
You're not well.

Listen, sir, Larson
hasn't got a chance out there

and everyone here
is getting so jumpy just

sitting around waiting
for something to happen--

That's enough, McCool!

Looking at you, Mac.
Bottoms up.

He's gonna be alright.
I think we caught it in time.

'The germ hasn't been found
that can stop him.'

You better go home
and get some rest. You need it.

'I'm alright.'

You haven't had 40 winks
in the last 40 hours.

Neither have you.

You know, I'm beginning
to dislike this guy Alipang

for the first time.

Why doesn't he come down
and fight like a man?

I'm making war with germs
instead of bolos.

I don't think the Filipinos
are afraid of Alipang now.

They're more afraid
of the cholera.

Wonder what happened to Larson.

He couldn't have lost his way,
he had Mike with him.

Well..

...I'll know a whole lot more about
cholera by the time I get home.

Linda?

Have you ever thought about
taking up nursing?

- What's the matter?
- She's alright.

She's just been on her feet
too long, and fell asleep.

Sit down a minute, will you?

- I'm pretty busy.
- I know. I want to talk to you.

Have a cigarette.

How's McCool?

Pretty sick.

What are you going to do
about Larson?

I don't know.

He never got to the dam. No.

It's a funny thing about
Larson's passion for orchids.

Big, clumsy, sweet.

Still, I have an uncle back
home, a blacksmith.

He has tremendous hands.
Can bend a horseshoe with them.

But you ought to see him
in the garden with his flowers.

Canavan, I'm going blind.

That bolo cut on the head
hit the optical nerve.

It's been getting worse lately.

Why didn't colonel hatch
order you to the base hospital?

He did. I tore up the medical
report when he died.

So I wouldn't see it.

What did the report say?

It recommended retirement,
but I had other plans.

Suicide?

What are you talking about?

I know, a report would read

"Killed in action," is that it?

That's better than rotting away
in an officer's club.

Fact is you're afraid.
Afraid to live.

That's much worse
than being afraid to die.

Dying is easy.
One way of running out.

Running out?

Do you know what
failure here means?

Mysang isn't just an isolated
village, it's a test.

If we can hold out here,
the whole job

in the Philippines is done.

Well, I've failed.

I've got to send for the army.

What good would that do?

It'd take days, maybe weeks.

Maybe you can wait that long,
but the cholera can't.

What can I do?

Larson's gone,
McCool's sick and I--

You're not blind yet!

You're not a failure.

You've just quit.

You're as choked up with fear
as those men of yours were.

Afraid of blindness.

Afraid of failure.

Why don't you stop being sorry
for yourself and do something?

We don't need the army,
we need running water.

Doctor, it is true.

The people all die
unless the river runs again.

Many have died already.

Some are Moros, my people.

If you give me men..

...I'll lead them myself to the
riverhead to break up the dam.

Give me but a score of men
with rifles.

I have already sent one expedition.

Until I hear
from Lieutenant Larson--

You will not hear from him.

How do you know?

Well, I, uh, I'm told
he followed the river.

That was wrong.

The riverhead is guarded
by Alipang's men.

But there is another trail.

Mike. Mike.

What happened to Larson?

Killed..

Everybody..

Ambush..

Captain, soon it'll be too late.

Larson..

Datu..

Datu..

Mike.

It's a good thing
you held on to Anting-anting.

You bet your life.

Mike..

What about the Datu?

You were mumbling
about the Datu, Mike.

Mike, try to remember.

Mike...the Datu.

Datu.

Datu.

He with Alipang's men.

Datu killed Larson.

- Where's Captain Hartley?
- He went to blow out dam.

- Did the Datu go with him?
- Si, teniente.

- How many men did they take?
- Thirty-two.

- And the Datu take some Moros.
- Moros? What for?

To carry dynamite.

Mac.

Mac.

Mac, listen.

Old Drill 'em's in trouble.

I've got to go after him.

Mac. Mac, come out of it, please.

Listen, you're in charge.
There's nobody else.

You've got to take over.

- Yeah.
- Understand?

Mac, take care of Linda.

The river bends and turns,
we could go straight up.

You see, no ambush, no trouble.

How soon before we get there?

One hour we'll be there.

Datu.

Why are we going up? Shouldn't
we be down in the gully?

We make circle.
Soon we come to the riverhead.

- How soon?
- Half an hour.

Just a few minutes more,
we'll be there.

Why are you bringing the men
this way for

when you know the river's
in that direction?

- That way dangerous.
- Yes, I know.

I just saw Larson,
what the ants left of him.

Hang him up.
Tie his hands behind his back.

- Yes, sir.
- Give me your bayonet.

There's plenty of dynamite left.

He was leading you into an
ambush, so it must be close by.

I'm going up to the dam,
the river way.

How many men do you want?

None. My friend here,
the Datu, knows the way.

He'll make a perfect shield.

Now you go down to the river
and wait for me.

And I'll follow it down
and join you.

You're gonna take me to the dam.

Come on.

Yabo.

- Yes, sir.
- Call in the men.

Fall in!

Come on, keep going.

What's the matter?

Get going!

The river!

- The river.
- The river's running!

- The river!
- The river!

- The river!
- The river!

The river!

The river! The river is running!

Captain, I just
left Alipang's camp

and there's not a Moro left.
You know what that means.

They're probably
attacking the village.

We've gotta
get back there quickly.

- The river.
- Yabo!

- Yabo!
- Yes, sir.

Get the men started
building rafts.

Yes, sir.

Steve, I'll take a couple of men
and leave on the first raft.

Alright.

Pull out the guards!
The Moros are coming!

Sylvia, sound for the alarm!

Linda! Get the gate shut.

Get those gates shut.

Many guns, many bullets
in the fort.

We take them.

Get the gates closed.
Get those closed.

Stand back. Let's go!
Man the walls!

- Mac!
- Linda, take my temperature.

I'm feeling better already.

Go to village.
Get prisoners.

Stick close to the captain.
He's gonna need help.

It is going to be up to you to get
the men back to the fort, Yabo.

Yes, sir.

Where they keep guns
in the fighting fort?

Where?

Where they keep guns
in the fighting fort?

Under church, by the big window.

That side.

You take men.
Attack the gate by the bridge.

I go to other side and get guns.

More shells out of the arsenal!

Mac! Mac!

Hang on!

Mac.

Get me some more ammunition.

Go on.

Now, we attack on all sides.

You go by river road.

You go by river.

You go by lagoon.

And I go by bridge.

What are you standing there for?

Get back to your places!

Oh!

Hey! Get back into position!

Get back into position there!

Yabo, keep 'em all together!

Teniente!They are coming!

Teniente! Teniente!

They're coming up the river!

'Teniente,they are coming
in the lagoon!'

- Where's the dynamite?
- There isn't any.

Keep your positions!
Use your guns as clubs!

Yabo, keep the men together.

Ready! Aim!

Fire!

Yabo! Yabo!

Alipang! The one in black.
Get him!

- Steve.
- Bill.

I wish you could have seen it.

Seen it? I can feel it.
It was wonderful.

- How's Linda?
- Dad!

Oh.

Thank you.

- Goodbye.
- Goodbye.

- Goodbye.
- Goodbye.

We, who are about to live,
salute you.