All language subtitles for The Story of Dr Wassell (1944).en

The country doctor...

In our lands they are figures
symbolic of courage

self-sacrifice and skills.

He's loved by all,
but payed by a few.

Yes madam, it is a boy.

About eight pounds, I reckon.

He brings his patients
in to the world...

And comfort them as they leaving.

He is a man of quite humor
and kind philosophy.

Whose job, in peace or war
is saving lives.

It is typical of his kind...

That the doctor Corydon M. Wassell
of Arkansas...

Should already be found in the
dangerous zone of the Dutch indies,

as the powerful pincers Japanese
closed on Java.

There, a handful of Dutch
and Americans fighting ships

caught in the terrible trap of the
Java sea, play a hopeless stand...

Against the Japanese fleet.

Riddling and burning,
a bomb shelter surviver...

Lift toward the southern
coast of Java.

A steering gear gone,
a radar jammed,

the twin deck are shambles.

Fire and sea fought for
the possession of the ship.

The pumps draining and buckets
for days fighting...

For 48 hours without cause,
they struggle for life.

Disregarding the danger,
the equipment maintenance...

Soaked in oil and blinded
by the burning hot steam...

Risked their lives
making a pathway

to open the sides of the boat.

Radio Tokyo reported that it had
been destroyed in action.

But the incredible feat of officers
in keeping her afloat...

Immortalized her name...

The United States cruiser,
Marblehead.

Two days later, on February 6, 1942,

the hospital train
loan by the Dutch...

And in charge of doctor Wassell...

Arrives the Marblehead
at Tjilatjap...

To receive the wounded sailors.

- Take it away.
- With care, down there.

Careful or you'll finish him.

Take care, what are you going
to throw him away.

- Secure both gateways.
- Yes, yes.

There we go.

- You'll be gone soon, fellow.
- Don't make me laugh, doc.

There are thirteen guys parked in the
steering that won't be home either.

But what happens here?
Put me down.

Hey, somebody, where are they
taking me? What hole is this?

This is Java, sailor, and you had
a little trouble, that's all.

- With witch ones, doctor?
- With my colleagues, please.

You will be at ease.
The third wagon.

Doctor Wassell...
Here's one without a tag, doctor.

You Dutch nurses work
as pretty as you look.

It is very bad. Yes.

Anybody know this boy?

That's Hopkins, sir.
He's from Gabriel, Arkansas.

One of our razorbacks, huh?

With the emergencies, doctor?

- Yes, he'll need a transfusion.
- Yes, doctor.

He look almost quite dead.

Take charge of him, nurse.

Careful...

All right!
Get your hooks off me...

I'm beef my beef to the skipper.

I'm getting out of this!
I'll show you who's tough!

Easy, now, easy. Easy, man.

The Marblehead... she's heading
home. I'm going with her.

And there is no one who can stop me.

You'll go home all right,

but we gotta get a few Japanese
calling cards out you first.

No sawbones is going
to keep me off my ship...

Your ship is out of actions,
fellow.

So am I, I guess.

- Put him with the shellshock cases.
- Yes, doctor.

I see you still helping those
who cannot help himself, Dr. Wassell.

Ping!

Ping, how did you get here?

I had the honor to serve
on the Marblehead.

So you got yourself in the Navy too,
what brought you out of China?

Following in your footstep, doctor.

My great regret is that
I can follow no longer.

I've missed you, ping.
More than you'd figure.

I find that gratifying,
doctor Wassell.

We got a lot to talk about
on the train, ping.

I'll pick one for you.

Hey, toots, how's about
some services.

I fix on the train.

That's wonderful!
I got fixed on the Marblehead.

You know, there's something about
you that reminds me of moonlight

on the silvery Harlem river.

She didn't say what you remind her of!

It's my ears, doc,
makes everything's go dark.

- Nurse, you take charge of this case.
- Yes.

Stretcher-bearers to come by here.

You keep your temperature down.

- It's flat down to zero.
- Take it away.

Wait a minute!
That with medical insignia, come here!

My men are crushed and
you have them fooling around.

Why are you loafing here?
Men are dying on the deck.

Report to the commander of the train.
Who is the commander of the train?

- Well, I guess I...
- Then what are...?

Beats me why he isn't dead...
Let alone how he can holler that away.

Captain Hudson's compliment, sir.

Unidentified planes approaching.
He request you move at once.

Soon as we're loaded.
Say, who's this?

Commander Goggins, sir.
Executive officer.

They must have been through...
My respects to captain Hudson.

Ready to move, doctor?

I reckon we're all clear.

Goodbye, folks.
Thanks a lot for helping theses boys.

And those of you that's headed for
Australia, I sure hope you make port.

Cory!

- Hello.
- Hello.

So you did go into the Navy!

I... yes. You know ping's here?

Yes, he asked me if ID forgiven you.

Have you?

I found out you lied to me, Cory.

Oh, that...

I suppose Dr. Wayne was with
you when war broke.

We were all in Hong Kong, but...

I'm sure glad you got out okay.

I hope you're both mighty happy.

Cory, the train!

We were such fools in China!

Well, I was, anyway.

Excuse me, wasn't that
Dr. Wassell of Kiangsi?

Yes.

Didn’t he leave under some...

He left because his work was done.

Of course, of course.

- There was some kind of a mix-up...
- Yes.

- Did you forget something, doctor?
- I wish I could.

We'll check the critical
cases nurse, uh?

I am nurse Bettina.

Francis, Idaho.

- A cowboy adventurer, huh?
- This was a child, doc.

That would be months ago.

Kraus. Shrapnel.

- Where are you from, buddy?
- Fond du lac.

- Pretty good fishing around there.
- Yes sir, muskies.

Mostly mud-cat down my way.
Anything you need?

Yes, some ham and eggs, a doctor...

And another chance
ketch me a jap.

I don't think there's any
aboard the train,

but I'll see they save you one.

- Morgetti. Open fractures.
- Hello, doc.

When do you eat here?

First I have to fix you so
you have something to eat with.

This is Anderson, doctor. From mass...

Massach... usetts...

Say that again... I like it.

You seem like pretty good
medicine, Bettina.

- She's okay by me, doc.
- Thank you, Massachusetts.

Hey, what are you doing after work?

We can pass this one by.

You see Dr. Vranken, we Chinese
understand this enemy.

Believe me, he is more dangerous
than the world knows.

The naval base at Singapore
will stop him.

Seaman Hopkins has blood type iv.

The only other type iv available
is a Javanese nurse.

- Is she ready?
- Yes, doctor.

- Well, go back with the other.
- Yes, doc.

As long as Singapore stand
on the flank, Java is secure.

But without Singapore, your fine
hospital may prove a trap!

From witch no man on earth
could them out.

Well, in my country we always say:
"It can't happen here".

We are cramped for space...
Do you think you'll faint sitting up?

I doctor! I am training nurse.

Well not to bother you, miss,
but we are deprived of plasma.

- What's your name?
- You laugh when I tell you.

No, I won't.

My name is Tremartini.

Three Martini?

Well, he'll think three Martini
is a right pretty name,

because he's just about going
to owe his life to you.

I am so happy if he live
because of me.

Don't bother, doc.

It will go hard with me if I die.

But it will go a whole lot harder
if I live.

He think he is cripple.

He wish to die.

Gabriel, Arkansas...

Say, feller, what does this
put you in mind of?

That's an Arkansas razorback.

You'll be having sowbelly
and Greens again.

I kind of forgot Arkansas.

I kind of forgot it to...
Till I saw a ghost this morning.

A razorback ghost?

No, but it was razorbacks
run me out of Arkansas...

How come?

I was just a circuit-riding doctor
back in Arkansas...

And the trouble was everybody
paid me in pigs...

Cory, you are a patient man...
To take your patient's pay in pigs.

The kind of pigs they pay me with
has to stand up twice to cast a shadow.

Some days I'm just sorry I hung
that shingle out...

You take Elmer over there, looking
at me with tan silly bashful look.

I got him for working all winter
on uncle Henry's Rheumatiz.

He looks a mite like uncle Henry.

That shoat yonder paid off
for bringing in six kids...

Down at the forks of the crick.

Is that how you count them, Cory?
Six kids is worth one hog?

Well, you see the kid crop's been
much better than the hog crop lately.

Back up! Back!

- I come near forgetting your letter.
- A letter?

- You mean a letter trough the mail?
- Well, it didn't come by freight.

Something must be wrong.
I don't get any letters.

It's just an old printed circular.

Mighty pretty Chinese.

Say, how do you suppose
they pay doctors in China, Hank?

I don't know. Chop-suey, maybe.

Be seeing you, Cory.

Whoa! Whoa! Where you going?

Is that why you went in the Navy?
To get away from the hogs?

No. The hogs only run me
as far as China.

You see the pretty nurse
in China maybe?

Well, that is another story.

Now you go to sleep and count the hogs
as they run out of that pen.

I reckon you better
stay right by him.

I stay by him always.

His blood and my blood...
They all mixed together.

He is a part of me
and I am a part of him.

Always. That's nice.

I sure wish I had a big dish...
What happens?

Word has just come over the air...

The great naval base at Singapore
had fallen.

Singapore!

Good gravy!

Spraying your throat, murdock?

Blowing bubbles, you deck-ape.

Please, what is this?

That's a baseball, three Martini.

What is baseball?

Well, you hit it with a bat.

How can you?
A bat flies only at night.

There's another kind that...

Okay, cutie, skip it!
Brings out the other.

Those are from my uncle.

I think your uncle is a woman.

- Maybe your wife?
- No. Not yet.

That is my lucky charm.
Don't spill it.

It's just mud...
Plain Arkansas mud...

A little piece of the United States.

You love that place, that...
"Arkkumsaw".

Sorta.

What it means "arkkumsaw"?

Heaven.

I think I would like to be with you
in "Arkkumsaw".

You'd sure me a hit with
the ladies aid society!

I've handled it so often,
I can tell which is which.

And this is here's my kid-sister
five years od...

- She is a beautiful little girl.
- Yes.

I'd sure like to see her...

Well, hear her...

Yes, yes.

And now your thumb.

Good! Now all of them.

Well, that's wonderful!

You will be writing with
that hand soon.

I'd like to write a letter to...

To your girlfriend, I know.
Now your other hand.

Each finger alone...

- Bettina.
- Yes.

- I'm paralyzed.
- Of course you are not.

That's it. Have you seen it?

That's wonderful.

Oh, you, shame on you!

You just try to make fun of me!

Honey, there's something about you
reminds me of moonlight

on the silvery Harlem river.

I have a present for you.

Reminds me of a girl I loved
in Los Angeles.

That hair! That one eye.

- She's got water on the brain.
- No, no.

- Open!
- Let's pluck it first.

Hit together.

You not strong like Java men.

You think I ain't, huh?

Sixty thousand troops,
heavily equipped.

This is station PLV, Java.

Wish you'd look at the stuff
the dutch ladies sent the boys.

Have you heard the latest reports?

The town's buzzing with rumours thick
as pig's track. I ever heard tell...

That the Japanese
have landed on Java?

On Java!

Sixty thousand within
the last ten hours...

Outnumbering our men five to one.

They are closing on us from both
ends of the island, Cory.

Unless the Japanese can be stooped,

it will be impossible for any of your
forty-two wounded sailors to escape.

Good gravy!

Well, I guess I better give
them their cigarettes and things.

Yeah.

That is a crazy dance.

What do you mean, crazy?
Can you cut a rug?

- He means "dance".
- Sure, like this.

Not funny like him...

But beautiful like this.

Now, you'll see.

- When do you start?
- Yes, when do you?

Not like that! Get hot!

- Oh, you mean like in the movies!
- Yes!

Now you're with it!

Clear the deck!

Down periscope!

- Leave Tremartini!
- All to bed!

What in the name of Mrs. Murphy's
cow do you think you are up to?

I make fix this bed.

You make fix these boys temperatures
at about a hundred and twenty.

My fault, doc.

You'd got that poor little thing
fired if the head nurse'd come in.

What's you got, doc, cigarettes?

And candy, too,
from the Dutch ladies

who's got tobacco?

- Thank you.
- Thanks, doc.

Pass them out.

There are also newly-arrived mail
from Australia. Hoppy.

Alabama, this is for you.

I don't open it, doc, I just will keep
it for a while.

Johnny...

Where is Johnny?

Learning Javanese, I believe, sir.

Say "plum", and I'll show you.

"Plum".

Wow, wait honey, that's my call.

I give you coconut...
You give me nothing.

Well, doctor!

All right, Johnny...
Off with your pants.

Doc, I just walk in my sleep.

Did you dream you were
a flower-pot?

Off with them!

Oh, doc, pants are sacred!

You heard me, Johnny!

Yes, sir. Nurse.

Where you going to put them?

- Nurse, you'll put these in the safe.
- Yes, doctor.

I'm beached!

Thanks, doc.

Doc! Commander, sir! Would you
please to read my letter for me?

Why, sure thing, Hoppy.

Do you read it?

Thank you, it's a bit difficult to me.

It's from St. Charles.

Sure, it's from Alice.
What's she say?

"Dear Hoppyboy...".
Writes a nice hand.

"It's over for weeks since
I wrote, but there was a reason.

First, mother was down with a cold,
but that wasn't the reason I didn't write.

Hoppy... I've had time to think things
over lately... about you and me...

I mean... and that's why I feel
I've got to tell you..."

- Tell me what?
- It gets kind of blurred...

How do you mean, blurred?
Doc, what's happened?

You know a feller named
dick Lubbock?

No.

Yeah, I did too! He worked with
the dollar storage. What about him?

She's married him, Hoppy.

It is time to your medicine again.

Hey, look, Hoppy...

It happens to all of us, feller...
One time or another.

That's a half-broadside sixteen inch.

If it's Navy guns, how are
they coming closer... on stilts?

You guys want to bet five bucks?

Hang onto your money.
That's target-practice over at Magelang.

Target-practice?

Yes, and we are the target.

- All to the shelter.
- Yes, sir..

It is an alert. A bombing naval.

Do not give in to the panic.
You all know the rules.

Convalescent patients to the shelter.

All others are to be placed
beneath their cost.

Yes, sir.

Walking wounded follow me,
please...

- Nurses! Nurses!
- Bettina, help the doctor Wassell.

Put the empty beds against the
windows.

The other in a circle
in the center, Bettina.

I put the beds in a circle!

- Come on, Johnny.
- But, doc...? My pants!

Make a sarong out of the sheet!
We go for a ride, ping.

Put morgetti out of the bed and
bring his empty bed over here.

Ping, we'll set up some firecracker of
our own when we get back to China.

But I trust they will not be
of such immoderate size.

Thank you, doctor Wassell.

You already know what it says
Hirohito, guys:

- "Why walk if you can burn"?
- Sign of.

Oh, charming moon
that does not know of my... oh!

- Stay under the bed.
- Yes, miss.

Johnny, help us with these beds.

- Francis, end that noise.
- Yes, sir.

- Why you close the doors?
- For security.

Leave them or you can fill
your face of the crystals.

Careful, Hoppy, slow...

I thought I should be helping you.

You guys with eyes...
Can you see anything yet?

I can see the bed Springs.
You are not missing a thing.

If this is a dream,
shut off the alarm clock!

I kind of hope I'm dreaming myself...

All right sir, is your turn. Johnny,
put it down and give me a hand.

You are not putting me
under any bed, sir!

I apologize for this... but you're
my casualty, and I'm your doctor!

I'll remind you I'm executive
officer of the Marblehead!

We're not on the Marblehead.
Johnny, grab him!

- Careful.
- I have work to do!

- It is an emergency!
- It is a hospital, not your quarterdeck.

Damn it, Cory, this is a riot,
and you know it, don't you?

Come on, under the bed.

Shut up, will you?
They're over us!

Where are the ack-acks?

- Take cover, Johnny!
- Yes, sir!

There are eight, no, nine bombers.

Coming over at about
fifteen thousand.

And the leading pilot's
got buck-teeth!

- Get under, I said!
- Yes, sir.

Bettina, won't you please
go to the shelter?

They'll be laying those big
yellow eggs in a minute!

You just want to get rid of me.

That's a three-hundred pounder...

That one's going to hatch way out
in the boondocks, sister!

What did I tell you?

You fellers are safe
as a pitin a prune.

The near missed Java with that one.

- Do you have so much fear as I do?
- Yes, doctor.

Fine.

- Distribute the gas masks.
- Yes.

All right, Francis, break out
some swing that Bronx bagpipe!

I understood, the commander
thunk is stunk.

It's too quiet in here...

Don't argue!

There's a swell article here says
why the Japs won't start any war...

Here... take a pull on this, Mac.

Thank you, admiral.

- Afraid?
- Just for you.

You're a funny kid, three Martini.

You like?

If you have a kid, would you
call it one Martini?

This is a lot of fun,
but it ain't healthy.

That one's got my number on it!
Get down!

Let me out of here!
They'll Bury us in this dump!

- Easy.
- You got us trapped here!

I know about you!
You turn tail in China...

- Murdock!
- Shut up!

I heard it and I'm tell you.
He flopped in China and he flopped here.

- Murdock!
- The poor guy will hang for this!

Nobody's going to hang.
Maybe he's right.

- I'll say I'm right! It was him that...
- Pipe down, murdock!

One more squawk out of you
and you'll spend this war in the brig!

What's it to me...
We're washed up anyway.

No we're not... noise couldn't
kill a kitten.

Doctor Wassell, there are glass-splinter
wounds in the west ward.

Dr. Vranken asks if you can join him.

Sure...
Bettina, stay by murdock.

Yes, doctor.

- Bill, you are in charge.
- Okay, doc, I have it.

Go for it!

Can you hear me, murdock?

I ain't deaf.

It is unreasonable to talk
of what you do not know.

Ping was working for doc in China.
How's about his quitting, ping?

He would not quit...
In this world or the next.

I'm telling you what I heard...

I worked by his side,
day and night.

Hunting for the carrier
of a terrible disease

which he insisted would be
found in a snail's liver.

Snail's liver! Do you think
that's funny!

No, it was not funny.

It had everything to do on our lives
and the lives of many others.

We were collecting snails along the
Yangtze river when he first saw Madeline.

It was her picture that brought
him to China.

I had studied in the mission school.

She was a nurse
at the mission hospital,

and this day she was bringing
in some children...

Very fierce, but it doesn't seem
to help us with our research.

Ping! What on earth...?

- Oh! Miss Madeline!
- Eh, eh, eh!

Hey, ping! What in thunder!

Come back here
and give me a hand!

Your assistant offers apology,
his stupidity is profound.

And that's a fact!

I'm afraid I was to blame for...

You were in the circular! Was I?

Well, you were almost
in the river.

May I present the most estimable...

Oh, I know miss...
We meet in Arkansas... sort of.

- But I've never been in Arkansas.
- Then let me introduce...

They told me about him up at the clinic.
You must be Dr. Wassell.

Yes, the snail catcher.

- Can I take this?
- No, it is not our.

Won't you join us at lunch, miss...

Madeline.

Miss Madeline, ping and I have
some sandwiches, if you'd...

- That picture of the watch looks like...
- Yes,

it does sort of, didn't it?

- Will you stay?
- How can 1?

- They're so hungry.
- Ping, give them the lunch.

- That was very nice.
- You don't want to sit down?

- Can't find that cross-eyed snail.
- Here, drown your loss in tea.

Dr. Wayne often talks
of your snail theory.

Does he honest?

But it is only a theory.
I can't prove it.

You'll be the greatest man
in China, if you do.

Are you...? No, I guess you're not.

- Not what?
- Are you interested in snails?

Well, not for tea.

But I'm interested in anything
which may help

to stamp out this awful scourge.

It sure kills a lot of people.

And I'm interested in your watch.

Yeah...

As days went into weeks,
Madeline worked at his side

sterilizing the test-tubes
and microscope slides.

But they did not realize how closely
the work was drawing them together.

I think that lens is cracked.

No, that's sharp now!

Those flagella!

I want to tell you,
you have the most beautiful...

The most beautiful sterilization
technique I've ever seen.

Nonsense, Cory.

I know something much more
exciting than that.

The board of governors
met last night!

- Have you seen the new assignments?
- No,

but I'm sure what one
of them will be.

You don't mean they're sending
you off to some...

They're appointing
a new research chief!

Madeline, you don't think...?

The governors are all terribly
impressed with your work...

Especially Dr. Wayne.

With apologies for intrusion.

Dr. Holmes is requesting
your presence.

- Dr. Holmes!
- Cory, I told you,

get your other coast on!
Look at you, your tie isn't straight...

I will bring notes with me.

The board, Dr. Wassell, appreciates
the devotion you have shown...

Thank you, Dr. Holmes.

That is why we are asking you
to accept a most trying post...

We wish you to pioneer an outpost
clinic in the heart of Kiangsi.

Kiangsi?

It will be an arduous,
even a thankless task...

And not without danger.

I guess... I kind of thought...

Of course, if you wish,
you may refuse...

- No, no. I'll go.
- We hoped you'd feel that way.

Dr. Wayne, our new research chief,

will see that the data you send
in receives every attention.

They've put you on the firing line,
Dr. Wassell...

And made me a brass-hat,
I'm sorry to say.

I sure do congratulate you, Dr. Wayne.

I'll volunteer to assist
Dr. Wassell at kiangsi!

Look here doctor...

The two men who were to kiangsi
before you didn't come back.

Schistosomiasis got one,
and the swamp fever the other.

Don't worry, I'm from Arkansas.

Of course, you'll take every
precaution about Madeline.

She can't go there.

I'm interested in her too,
Dr. Wassell.

Deeply interested.

She still can't go!

Of course, the clinic come first...

But you two can't bounce me
around like a rubber ball!

I was assigned to Dr. Wassell and I’m
going up the river to kiangsi with him.

You can't... he's gone!

Madeline stayed there
working with Dr. Wayne...

While Dr. Wassell went up
the Yagntze a thousand miles...

Into the greatest adventure
a man could face.

He went to deal with matters
of life and death,

compared to which a bomb
is merely noise...

But no one could foresee
what was to happen.

I can't hear nothing...
Can't you talk?

Are you all dead?

Francis, are you okay?

Yeah...

And how about the others?
Can you hear me?

- I ain't dead... I guess...
- And I'm still here.

Johnny, check out there back.

Ping, what about you?
Can you...? Ping!

Bettina, go, ping is injured.

Yes. Yes, commander.

- Are you okay, murdock?
- Yes.

- Good gravy!
- Grip there, doctor Wassell.

Cory, come here, quickly.

- Fetch my hemostats.
- Yes, doctor.

You will not need them...

Doctor.

I can hear the little silver bells...

Of China...

Ringing in the dusk...

Or...

Some day, those little silver
bells of China will ring again...

That's a promise, ping.

Even... if I never see you again,

I can't ever forget how...

Gentle and sweet you are.

You turned the hardest part
of my whole life...

Into the prettiest part.

Some day, back in Massachusetts...

- If I ever get back.
- Of course you'll get back.

- Cross that out.
- Right.

Just put... whenever I shut my eyes...

I guess I'll always see your face.

"Your face".

Yeah, let's see...

What else could I say?

You might tell her
that you love her.

Yes. Because...

- "Because...”
- .. I love you...

Very much.

You know?
This is a beautiful letter.

I think it will make her very,
very happy.

- At to whom does it go?
- Don't you know?

No...

Dirk!

- Kleine Bettina.
- Oh, my love.

I am so happy!

Are you on leave?

No, Betsie. Dispatches from
commander Wassell.

Oh, yes... yes...
I will find him for you.

You address this letter for that

very nice boy? His name is Andy.

It's good to see you.

Hello. My name is Dirk Van Daal.

Yeah.

Say... you wouldn't be her brother,
would you?

No, not her brother.

No... I didn't think you were.

To whom shall I send this?

Oh, send it to... Susie Glutz, Detroit.

It's in Florida.

- You like Bettina, don't you?
- She's all right.

I like her too.

How was I to know
she was your girl?

She's not my girl yet, Andy.

In war we can't know
what's ahead, can we?

So what?

Well... if anything goes wrong,

we both hope somebody will take
care of her... don't we?

And when the war is over,
the luckiest man will win.

What's wrong with that?

Say you're all right.
It's a deal.

- Commander Wassell is in the office.
- Thank you.

As your cowboys say:
"Good luck, partner".

There is nothing to worry about.
What?

The Americans boys are going home.
It's that true? When?

- Right now!
- I am so happy for them!

Impossible!

That would be terrible!

Did he say the Japs are coming?

No, worse. Worse?

Worst of all!
You are going home!

Home!

You're flying a kite!

He tell nurse Bettina.
All Americans go home... quick!

Holy mackerel!

You take me with you to "Arkkumsaw"?

Hey, guys. Hey, guys! Johnny!

Whaley, Kraus, did you hear?

- No.
- They're shipping us home.

- Are you kidding?
- They're shipping us home.

You're delirious.

- How do you know?
- Don't know what you say.

- He's just kidding.
- No, that is serious: Home!

I don't believe it.

Do you know the first thing I will
do to get home? The red-head.

What is it, Johnny?
Is the war over?

It's over for us, Alabam!
We're going home

back to wall street.

It's true. Good gravy, it's true!
“What?

"Proceed at once to Tjilatjap
for evacuation".

- What?
- No one's going to quarrel with that.

What's in the other envelope?

What is it, doctor?
It's a correction of that order.

"Only those who are able
to walk can go.

All stretcher cases must stay here".

Let me see that.

Well, that... that dry-docks me!

You must choose the men
you are taking, doctor.

I have to prepare the train.

This orders are right, Cory.

You need men who can fight
on that ship.

It is going to be hard to look some
of those boys in the eye...

And tell them that may
never see home again.

I know Cory, but it's orders.

Go in and pick your men.

Hey! Whoa! Wait a minute!

Hey, you!
Quiet down for a moment!

Seem like you're ahead
of the game!

- What do you think you are, Johnny?
- I'm the statue of Liberty!

Pointing the way to Brooklyn.

- I get out of there, already!
- Yes, sir.

You haven't heard the bad news yet.

Best bad news I ever did hear!

- I tell you there's a hook in it!
- So, tell us, doc.

- Come on, closes the beak.
- Quiet!

- See, what happens?
- We're elated, doc.

Of course, Francis, but we can't
take any chances with this...

I'll be dancing by the
time we get home!

I'm already packed for the trip, doc.

Yeah, well.

Oh, men...

Just like you said, doctor:
You're going to eat bacon.

You got to be sound enough
to walk to the table, Hoppy!

When I get back, they'll have to run
me down to put shoes on me.

Hey doc, when do weigh anchors?

You know, Alabam, this Chinese
eye doctor here is awful good.

I kind of hate to have
to you lose his care...

No, sir. I'd rather be smelling
Jasmine on the back porch and...

Hearing the Chuck
wills hollering at night.

Yeah...

I guess many feel the same way.

You see, you boys...
I have to decide...

That is, I can't take... doc.

Do not go leave me here
by what I said of you, wouldn't you?

I wouldn't leave you, sailor.

I wouldn't leave any of you.

I'm taking you all.
Every dawgone one!

And they are boil you in oil
for this.

- Go getting ready, bill.
- Right.

Attention!
Get ready to meet the orders!

Doctor, please.
I go to... with Hoppy to "Arkkamsaw".

That is impossible.

His blood is my blood!
You cannot pull them apart!

I'm sorry, sister...

Please, doctor.
It is bad if you take him from me.

Bad, bad...

Maybe so... but we got no choice.

Evil will follow you...

Big evil come to you... soon.

Bring those boxes.
Start with the ammo.

Come to lend a hand here.

Take away all this.
We are short in time.

- Assemble the rest of your war heads!
- Yes, sir.

- Prepare to load those secret files.
- Yes, sir.

- Pecos complement complete, sir.
- The Pecos will take another hunder men.

- She's very crowded.
- She'll be crowded worse.

Yes, sir.
Upload the following to the Pecos.

Three more here, commander...

- Three more, commander.
- That's you, Dutton... Easton!

Get going, Edwards!

Come on, be ready, if you want
to see home port!

Do you want to be taken
for a bunch of stretcher cases?

Well, ain't we?

Alabam, you don't see
the leg stiff as a pole.

You too, whaley.

- Loaded the ammunition.
- Yes, sir.

Sit up, Hoppy.

Shouldn't look like you can't
stand on your own feet.

He's going mad.

Four more, commander.

Okay. Fowler, fox, cock,
and Grossman.

Fowler, your bag.

Thanks, doc.

Those able to walk, aren't they,
commander?

Yes, they are just resting
on the stretchers.

You know the orders, sir.

Pretty close, Cory.

I don't believe we are going anyplace.

I'm sure we are lined up
for a vaccination.

We heading for home. But if you
rather have a shot of vaccine...

Oh boy, as soon as you see
the golden gate...

Three more, commander.

Okay. Harnish.

- Kent.
- Here!

Leinweb. Good gravy!
Where is Johnny?

How about that boat, lieutenant?

How many can you take of?

We can take all the rest, lieutenant.

All yours, commander.
Good luck, sir.

Thanks. Okay, boys, ready to board.

The walking ones, help with
the stretchers.

Bring in the stretchers.
Put a smile on your face, murdock.

- We haven't come out yet.
- You, look alive!

- You, turn around.
- Yes, sir.

Wait, ain't of you guys taking me?

Hey, guys!

Yeah, here we go, honey.

Gotcha.

- Are you ready?
- I wish that you left me, that's all.

Once aboard that lugger
I'll sleep for a week!

Yeah, another three minutes
and I'll do it, Cory.

- I would like to get another tank.
- But what about the men?

Running out of capacity.
We don't have time.

- Understood?
- Yes, sir.

We get this out and...

Judas priest! What goes on down here?
What stretchers are those?

Commander Wassell's casualties.

Men wounded on the Marblehead
and Houston.

Orders are no stretcher cases
may embark. Stop that loading!

Yes, sir.

- Don't lose your place, morgetti.
- Yes, sir.

Doctor, doctor, one moment.
The stretchers can't go aboard.

Here comes...

I've order this men to embark, sir.

I'm sorry sir, the captain reversed it.

Set me down, Cory.

Stop everything.

- We are going, aren't we, sir?
- The ship sail, isn't it?

- Get those stretchers out of here.
- Alright.

Message from the
commander-in-chief, sir.

We'll submit the excess material
to the Netherlands authorities.

Captain, my casualties have
to be evacuated.

Take as much as you can
and leave the rest in the port.

Yes, sir.

The order was to bring
only walking cases.

But had no courage to tell them.

- Hey, please...
- This ships are crowded.

- The Pecos...
- Is requisitioned ship.

It must pick up four hundred and fifty
survivors on the high seas.

She'll be bomb with torpedoes.

My men fought to the end.
I can not leave them on a beach.

Do you prefer to see
them die on the high seas?

Yes.

You will send those men back
to the hospital. Moffat!

We'll put them in the hold and...

Give one thousand guilders to the doctor
for his wounded.

Yes, sir.

I'm sorry, doctor.

No one can reverse these orders
but the chief of staff...

And he is already at seas.
Your casualties will stay on Java.

- And wait for capture?
- Those are your orders.

Your signature, sir.

If my own sons were lying there,
I'd still have no other choice.

- Then I'll stay with them.
- That means you'd be captured.

So will the boys.
They'll need me even more then.

- Here are a thousand.
- Alright...

Your orders are changed to read:

Whatever happens,
you will stay with your wounded.

Thank you, sir.

In a few minutes you'll be ranking
American naval officer on Java...

And god help you!

Come on, move! Load all!

Is that our boat
coming alongside now?

- Why don't they take us?
- Take it easy, Alabam.

Mitchell... short... all you
walking cases get aboard.

With the stretchers, doc?
I'll mind the stretchers.

- See you later, guys.
- Let's go.

- Come on, up.
- That's my boat.

We are going in a submarine, doc?

No pig boat for me.
I'll go on the Pecos.

- I'll go in anything.
- What we waiting for, doc?

You're not going.

Only those who can walk
are going home.

Say that again, doc.

Only... those... who can walk.

You mean... we ain't going?

You heard me.

I can walk.

No... no! Hoppy!
You'll break your wounds open!

I can walk.

I have to get into that ship.

I walk or else...

Stay on the stretcher or you will
be sent home in a pine box.

If you'll just give me a shoulder
a piece of stick...

Or something... murdock!

Help me, please.

I can get it, doc.

I can walk.

Don't be stupid.
You have serious injuries.

- Do something, doc.
- Hoppy!

I tell you I can walk...
Just need... a little practice.

If someone show me where is the ship.

Stay still, everyone.
You all stay still.

Anchors aweigh.
There goes America.

Any of you boys ever seen
an Arkansas hoop-snake?

It takes its tail in its mouth...

And rolls downhill until...

Look. Take a look.

He can walk.
He could have got away!

Well, go on, Johnny...
Swim after them.

Ain't that the Pecos sailing, doc?

Yes, Johnny, it's the Pecos.

Good gravy!

Why ain't she taking us?

The course of true love
kept you too long, Johnny.

You're stuck here! Stuck?

Here on Java? But... why?

Because this is the end of it, sailor!

This is what we fought our heads
off for... to be left on the beach...

With the Japs coming up
on both side of us...

- And coming down from the sky...
- Drop it, murdock.

Why should I drop it?

We all know we'd be ten times
better off dead...

- Pipe down!
- But, doc...

It's time you people
remembered something.

This is the U.S. Navy,
and while you're alive

and while I'm alive,
you'll act like it!

You'll go where you're sent
and do as you're told... same as me!

You may be the last of the Navy on Java,
but you're Navy just the same!

We're going back to the hospital
to good clean bed...

- And a week or two of rest, and them...
- And them... the Japs.

Excuse me, sir, the train
for central Java is ready.

It will be the last, sir.
Bridges will be dynamited behind it.

We don't care what part of Java
we're buried in!

He told you to keep quiet!

- We'll move right away.
- Thank you, sir.

She's getting way out, ain't she?

Is there any other ship
in the harbor?

No other ship, feller...

I think that's my bed, doc.

What a party have been mounted
here since we left.

Sure looks like somebody's
been here and gone.

Yes, sir.

Looks like the boll-weevil
got into it!

Kind of need sweeping up around...

Look out, doc! Something moved.
Who was there?

Three Martini!

I know you come back here.
I waited.

Sister, you'll sure
win crystal gazer contest.

Hoppy. Oh, Hoppy!

Hoppy.

Allah is good.

Kid, you're a sight
for sore eyes!

I know you come back to me.

See? “What?

Oh, how sweet you are!

Where are the others?
Were they killed?

They go with Dutch army
in mountains, far away.

Japanese very near...
Take this place pretty soon now.

- That's comforting.
- Three Martini...

Where's Bettina? Did she...

The lieutenant Van daal
take her away on boat.

All right, you're head nurse.
Where's some food?

Doctor, I can milk goat...

If we can catch goat.

Mine's loose around
here somewhere...

Get these boys in the bomb shelter before
those flying termites catch them.

Bear a hand, Johnny...
Come on, three Martini...

Yes, sir.

What happens if we get
a direct hit?

You saw the bombs go through
the Marblehead's steel deck.

We get buried, that's what happens.

They wouldn't have left us
in charge of uncle fud...

- Unless they wrote us off.
- Shut up, murdock.

Any of you ever milk a goat?

The bad part is to get
the bucket under.

Some folks put the goat
up on two chairs.

Others milk her into a flat plate.

Personally, I...

I just to hold her tail
with one hand, while I...

I didn't aim to hear what you
said just now.

But I want you to know...

In your place, I reckon I’d
feel the same as you.

We know you've done
your best, doc, only...

Only what, feller?

Maybe it's time you
quit kidding us.

We've ended up in the bottom of
a hole we ain't going to get out of,

and if someone will shovel the dirt in
on top, that's all we got left to hope.

I don't hardly believe you want
to go on with that, do you, Hoppy?

Okay.

Give the boys the rest of that,
would you?

Our father, who are in heaven...

Please, don't shovel the dirt in yet...

Not while they're still alive...

How about a cigar, Cory?

This Dutch tobacco's all right.

What are you doing up here?

About the same thing you were.

I'll have to take you back into
the shelter. You're still my casualty.

Doc, it occurs to me that you're
the casualty here!

What... me?

Don't make any mistake, bill.
We're going to get out of this.

Only one thing's wrong with that.
You don't believe it.

You know something?
Something busted you...

And I think it happened in China,
a long time ago.

Who told you that?

Well, ping started to tell us, but...

He never had the chance
to finished it.

What happened in China, Cory?

Oh, that... that wasn't anything.

Then it's about time you
stopped paying for it!

What was it... a girl or a war?

Both.

But that war had a different
kind of death in it.

A slow, creeping death that you
couldn't see,

because it was under a snail's shell.

Ping mentioned that.

It was hogs that run me out of Arkansas...
But snails run me out of China.

I didn't think snails were so fast
on their feet.

Where was this... Shanghai?

No, I'd been sent a thousand miles
up the Yangtze...

To a pretty little Chinese village...

But under every roof, under every
flower, death was at work.

It had the habitants under her thumb.

The villagers were trying to ward off
the plague with a dragon...

But I was counting on a rabbit's
foot and my microscope.

I'd finished the day's around
of patients...

Tended a few, and buried a lot.

Maybe my thoughts were
down river some...

My work didn't progress
without Madeline.

A sampan come alone
owned by Chineses.

They were preparing
something for dinner...

And I saw something
that lifted me clean of my seat.

Ping! Grab that boat!

Hey, hey! Where did you get...?

No, no, I'm not trying to...

Ping, these snail shells are different!
I've got to have them...

Good gravy!
Thanks, I'm mighty grateful.

Hey, come on, ping! This here's
a breed we never did see before...

Doctor, you must rest.
For thirty hours you have not slept.

Ping, take a look and don't faint.

We've found it! We've found it!

Your name will be high
on the honor roll of science!

Well, hickory, dickory, dock.

How many tails
has that critter got, ping?

Two, like a tiny dragon!

No, one tail. It's forked.

That parasite is the
forked-tailed Cercariae.

Feels good to think of
the lives you will save.

Thousands of thousands...

Continuing culture
three hundred and five...

"Oh, what a pain,
for doctor Wayne..."

Points thousand five
hundred twenty-five.

Points thousand and six hundred.
Thousand and six hundred.

Set it down by the door and go away!

Out thousand six hundred and fifty.

Miss Madeline...
This is most pleasant surprise,

ping, you've turned into a dragon!
Aren't you going to let me see him?

He has the greatest
thing to tell you!

But let me instruct
the boatman where to take you.

Listen, I've come a thousand miles
up the river to see him, and...

Ping! What's the mystery?

He must tell you himself!

You mean he has been
talking about me?

About nothing but you...
And the snails.

Who won?

If you will proceed
to the temple of Kwan yin...

And will please sit there under
the right-hand sacred dog,

very soon I promise
he will come and tell you.

All right, ping.

But I don't want to spend
my vacation with the sacred dog.

Oh, but you will be so happy
when you hear!

- Will 1?
- As you will see, believe me.

That is if you have not...?

If Dr. Wayne has not...

But you have not... have you?

Anything can happen in China, ping.

I could murder you, ping.

Here she's risking her life
in this infected hole...

The one person I want to see
above all...

And you let me go on poring over
a mess of forked-tailed Cercariae!

The tide of wisdom should
no be checked.

Drat the tide of wisdom!
Where is my necktie? Good gravy!

A week ago I hadn't any more right
to ask her to marry me than...

Why, I couldn’t have bought her
a ride in a rickshaw...

- Now you are a great man!
- It wasn't my liver, is was the snail's!

I respectfully suggest you are
talking nuts.

- Where are my cuff-links?
- One is in your cuff...

The other is lurking
among the snails.

Sacred dog in the door of the moon.
The sacred dog...

Gosh, ping, you think
she'll say yes?

It is impossible to diagnose
the emotions

or to forecast the behavior
of occidental women...

Therefore, by any step one takes,
it is impossible to...

To increase or decrease the odds...

To achieve a positive response
to our request.

So, it is immaterial
what one does.

Ping, as cupid you're a flop!

No, sir.

One moment, doctor!

Red is the Chinese
color for weddings.

I hope so.

Very good.
I go to the dog sacred.

Some of those goldfish are mighty
near as pretty as an Arkansas catfish.

I thought catfish
were just mud-colored.

Oh, no, no, they are gold and silver.

And there is one kind we called
the swivel-whiskered catfish,

is all covered with little strings
of electric lights...

- Cory, I'm worried about you!
- Good.

Golden catfish and wearing flowers...

- These are in celebration
- of what?

Something I know and you don't.

What is the secret, Cory?

I know something that nobody
else in this world knows...

And when you hear it,
I bet you're going to climb right up

on top of one of these dogs,
and maybe fall of;

then I'll catch you and...

Gee, your hair's pretty today.

Cory, let me take your pulse.

The excuses some women make
to hold a man's hand!

There is a man, you know,
who wants to hold mine.

Doctor Wassell!

Please excuse, but a telegram
would seem to indicate haste.

Haste is for those in a hurry, ping.

Who'd you say wanted
to hold your hand?

- Dr. Wayne.
- Oh, him!

He also wants me to marry him.

Poor Dr. Wayne! I'm sure sorry
for that feller.

- Because I may accept him?
- No. Because you won't.

Because you are just going to tell
doc Wayne to go take a jump... in the...

Cory, what is it?
What's happened?

Nothing... nothing that amounts
of anything...

Weren't we talking about catfish?

- Catfish?
- Yes, that was it...

And I was telling you about
the lace-tailed kind, with the...

Green and yellow stars...

I was telling you that one
of the most brilliant men in China

wants to marry me!

Well, I don't hardly see how

is possible for a good girl
could refuse him, do you?

Cory, there is something
you're not telling me.

Yes, yes... there is.

I'm sending in my resignation.

Cory! Why?

Just restless, I guess. I thought
some of applying to the Navy.

But your work!

Madeline, I swear to heaven,

there's nothing
that interests me a bit.

Nothing, Cory?

Now you take Dr. Wayne. He's...

The type feller
for this kind of work...

You and he will go a long way.

- I believe you really mean it.
- Yes.

Is miss Madeline happy about
the... forked-tailed Cercariae?

- Didn't tell her.
- But...

She's going to marry Dr. Wayne.

You didn't tell her anything?

No. This came first.

"Dr. Wayne has found..."

"Dr. Wayne has found
the forked-tailed Cercariae...

His brilliant achievement will save
countless lives throughout China.

Please send all data you may have.
Holmes. Shanghai...

You should have told her
what was happened.

If she knew, she would stay
with you forever!

Yes, she would...
Because she'd be sorry for me.

No man could take that!

I guess maybe I was a fool...
But there's nothing new about that.

So you'll hold the bag
for the rest of your life?

It's not me this time...
I wish it was.

Down there lies all that left
of the American Navy on Java.

Ten helpless men...
About as good as dead!

Jap bombers...
Coming back for what's left!

Couldn't be bombers.

No end ahead
of those boys except...

Why not bombers?

That's mechanized stuff on a road!
Bombers fly, remember?

Those boys are holding the bag
for all of us...

- I'm just not going to let them do it.
- What can you do?

You sure that's mechanized stuff?

Of course I'm sure. Don't you think
I know my business?

Don't answer that.

If it's the Dutch withdrawing...
If I can get the loan of a truck...

You're cray, Cory... that's Jap
artillery! I can hear the caisson!

I'm going to scout that column!

That's clear beyond the temple
of Borobudur... three miles by road.

I'm not going by road!

I'm going to stick a feather in my shoe
and scorch a beeline straight trough!

You can't do that.
Your orders are to stay here.

- My orders are to stay with my men.
- I know, but...

Some day if we ever get out, I'll face
a court-martial. But until then...

Until then this
is still the American Navy!

Sure, and I'm in command of it
around here!

- Cory! Cory!
- Sit tight, bill...

Okay, you are the doctor.

Buddha,

you and I don't know
each other very well...

But if you ever want
to do something...

For some half-killed American boys,
here's your chance...

Don't let that column be Japanese.
Don't let it.

Don't let it!

The British! British trucks!

Compliments
of the United States Navy!

Excuse me, sir...
I'm commander Wassell.

Glad to know you.

Hey, listen.
Wait, this is life and death...

Beg pardon, old boy,
haven't slept in sixty hours...

- Are you the C.0.?
- I'm afraid so.

Other officers got knocked
out of it, you know...

I've got ten American sailors,
can you take them aboard?

- Certainly
- what? What was that you said?

Put them aboard anywhere.

That's the best word I've
had since...

I wonder if your men could help me
get my boys to the road?

They're wounded...

- Wounded!
- Yes, sir.

- Badly?
- A lot.

They'll never stand the rough going,
old man... over trees, through rivers...

I promise you they've all got
climbing hocks and web feet!

These are American sailors!

Sailors, huh? Burial at sea,
and all that sort of thing.

Bainbridge. Bainbridge!

Take a lorry and pick up
this officer's men!

- Yes, sir!
- Thank you. Thanks a million times.

- Get in.
- By the way, where are we going?

Australia, sir - Australia?

Yes, sir. A convoy of ships
will meet us a Tjilatjap.

Johnny, can you still
see Hoppy's car?

He's all right, sir.
He's back about six trucks.

What, Yankee?
Are you comfortable?

- You guys want a fag?
- Of course.

- Thank you.
- Are you all right?

It is fine, "Tommy".

Except for the square wheel.

How come Hoppy gets
a private Jeep?

Because he's shot up worse
than you are.

How come he gets the dame?

I'm not as homely as that ape!
What's he got that I haven't?

A private Jeep and the dame!

Shut up! What's that?

Can you see anything?

Maybe it's a signal
to dish out chow!

More like something the Japs
are dishing out...

Commander Wassell, sir.
Special orders!

- Something busted?
- The Japs have broken through

from the north.

A heavy battery is already
shelling the bridge at Gambong.

Good gravy! That's up ahead.

We must run the shell-fire, drivers
will take fifty-yard intervals and keep

the speed of the column
at any cost.

The bridge is just beyond the village.
Cross it at full throttle.

- Okay.
- Good luck, sir.

Bad place to run out of gas, Cory.

We are going downhill.

Look out below!

Hard right, doc!

- Stopping for lunch, doc?
- Quiet!

Hey, Johnny, take care of Andy.

- Hey, he hit something.
- Want to go back?

Yeah, call me a taxi!

I've lost my place.

- Almost hit for that one.
- It was close enough!

Johnny, can you still see Hoppy?

No, sir.

Take your foot off the brake.
You're flying too low!

She'll take off all right,
but she won't climb!

Don't slack up,
the bridge is just ahead!

- The little nurse said to drive careful.
- Pour it on!

Eh, driver. Driver!

- Tremartini, are you okay?
- Yes, Hoppy.

How about the driver?

- He is dead.
- Come on... get me up.

- I gotta walk.
- Please, no!

- Lie still!
- My leg!

Look at my leg.

It's broken, right?

Hoppy, I fix... well, is it?

Yes, Hoppy.

Run to the bridge,
see if you can bring someone.

The Jeep has fallen down the ravine!

What's that? I can't hear you!

The little car went off the road!

- The one with our guy and the girl?
- That's it.

Hey doc, Hoppy didn't
make the bridge!

He's off the road back there!

Bill, I'm going back for that boy!

- You can turn the truck up there.
- I'm not turning it.

- Johnny, grab this wheel.
- Yes, sir.

Bill, take over!
Once you're out of range,

pull off the road
and wait for me one hour.

What if you don't come back?

Then I'll see you after the war.

We're last across, sir.
Better swing aboard.

Give me your gun and get on!

So long, Arkansas.

Did you see anyone?

We'll be all right. Dr. Wassell
will come back for us.

He will not come back.

Sure he will.

The bridge... it is gone.

The bridge. It is shoot down...

All broke.
There is no other way.

You do not care?

Somehow...

For a long time... I haven't
thought I'd get out of Java.

I make you forget that "Arkkumsaw".

Listen, you! I'd trade you...
And thousand like you...

For one handful of Arkansas dirt!

I bet... I can make a...

Good splint for my leg
with some bamboo.

I go get...

There is something in the jungle!

Where? Look.

Down there... near bamboo.
In long grass.

The jungle's full of them!

They take no prisoner, Hoppy...

- Not in the jungle.
- They don't take us prisoners, anyway!

Get the Tommy-gun out of the wreck!

- Yes, Hoppy...
- Get off. Wait.

Cut these bandages off my hand!
Go on... cut them!

Look, I've got something to tell you.

I didn't mean what I said
about you... and Arkansas.

I don’t care anything
about not going back.

So long as this is where you are...

This is where I want to be.

I am so happy! Whatever happen...

- I am happy now!
- This is my girl.

Now get that Tommy-gun!

Yes, I will, Hoppy.

- And get that guy's driving gloves.
- Yes, Hoppy.

Fine. Put them on!

Okay, cutie... you're no hurting me.

Hoppy, I love...

Sure, kid... so do I.

Try not to hurt your hands...

Stop. Message for Dr. Wassell.

Problem?

We're making a stand
in the Kali swamp.

The captain suggest you take
the lower road and go around.

He says you're welcome
to the lorry.

But you'll miss your transport
if you fight here!

I'm sorry to tell you, the transport
ran into a spot of bother,

and they're all at the bottom
of the Java sea.

Nothing got through to Tjilatjap

but an old converted something
or other called the Jansens.

A converted washtub
would look good to us.

She'll sail as soon as she's fueled...
You'd better hurry, sir.

We sure thank you British for what
you've done for us.

Please tell your skipper that.

I will, sir, and good luck!
We'll give the termites a useful show.

Doctor Wassell, what a shame.
Arrive too late.

Jap destroyers are very close.

Even if we had known you were coming,
the Jansses could not have waited.

The Japs will land here
before morning.

How long since
the Janssens sailed?

Less than half an hour, sir.

Half an hour...

She was loaded to the stack six hundred
people in space meant for forty!

Captain stall couldn't...

There!

- I saw her!
- That ship's not under way!

Why would she anchor!

The lightning would show her
to the Japs outside.

Come over here, doctor.

I can get you out there in this
floating henhouse...

But they can't take you aboard!

Johnny, back this truck up!

Soldier, give me a hand
with these boys...

Yes, sir.

You men of the Marblehead and
Houston know what's ahead of us.

That ship must go through
a Japs task force.

Now, if you want to stay,
I'll stay with you.

Doc, we joined the Navy
to see the world!

We've seen Java.

- You all want to board this ship
- sure, let's go drown!

- Let her rip, doc.
- We're all wet anyway.

Cast off your bow line, lieutenant.

- Stand by, bill!
- I got it!

Marblehead ahoy!
I hold it, fellas!

Good gravy! When did I lose him!

Hold up!

Johnny, you can't take a native
woman out of the country.

- I know, sir, but...
- Shut up.

- Yes, sir.
- You speak English?

- Stop hiding your head. Bill won't...
- I am not hiding my head.

- Good gravy!
- She's an American schoolteacher.

- Go on, bill.
- On the move.

She's walked clear across Java.

We sure won't ask you to walk back.

- Yes, sir.
- Well, we have to do this.

I'll board first, then you
fellers do your stuff.

I'm obliged to you, lieutenant,
and I thank you for my men here.

Good luck to you, sir.

We'll have to work fast.
We will.

Do not insist, doctor.

It would be murder to take
your men aboard.

We're the last ship evacuating Java.

The will hunt us
from the sea and from the sky.

It would be a terrible thing to see
wounded men struggling in the sea.

Yeah... it sure would.

What is this, a hydrotherapy?

Hey, go easy.

Weigh the anchor, Mr. Benson!
We wait no longer!

Weigh anchor!

For their own good,
I have no choice.

No, sir. You sure haven't.

You'll have to hang
onto the bars, partner!

Something's busted inside.

I'll never get there.

Andy, look up to the rail.

Bettina's there!
She's on this ship!

Come on, Andy, you can make it.

One of us has to take care of her...
It's up to you now!

You've got to get aboard that ship!

Aren't you coming?

We're expecting visitors.
I'm on the reception committee...

You're a swell guy, dirk.

I'll take care of her for you...
Some way...

- Ahead slow, Mr. Benson!
- Engine ahead slow, sir.

Double your lookouts forward!
Look for floating mines!

Double your lookouts, mate!
Beware of the mines!

- Three degrees to starboard.
- Three degrees to starboard.

No lights!

I'm sorry to refuse your men,
but what is done is done.

That's good. What?

This is outrageous, sir! These are
wounded men, don't you know it?

Yes sir, I know it.

Well, get them into shelter.

- The shelter's full of people
- then get the well people out...

And get the wounded in!

Captain Ryk, sir, there'll be a special
place in heaven for the Dutch.

- Johnny, that kids come in.
- Yes, doctor.

- Help the nurse.
- Yes, sir.

- Call our doctor.
- Yes, sir.

- Has a hemorrhage, doctor!
- Do not move.

Get some bandages for Bettina.

- I have a flashlight doctor.
- Very friendly.

If you please... hold that candle
over here. That's is... make a tent.

Yes, sir.

We can not move it.

Sailor, hold the flashlight.

Do not give so much light, sailor.

- Lung punctured?
- He's taken a lot of punishment.

Give me the...

Good gravy! Doctor Wayne.

Wait... it's Dr. Wapple, isn't it?
Or wissle...

- Wassell.
- Why, of course.

Bandage scissors, please.

Haven't seen you since
the time Madeline was...

Thanks. This will do it.
We were all rather interested in snails.

- Your wife is safe, isn't she?
- Well, she was ten minutes ago.

- Sulpanilamide?
- She's aboard?

I'm glad she's safe.

Thanks... so am I.

Distribute the life jackets.

Boy! That was a close one.

Yeah... zero... mighty low!

If the mist clears, we're cooked!

Brush. Razor.

Hey, did I already said
that reminds me of a...?

- Eh, but what do you do?
- Be quiet.

- Hey, that's my ear!
- What you need to hear...

You're saying I remind you...

A moonlight on the silvery Harlem...

No you don't. You're different
from all the others...

- You have something that...
- Listen!

The engines have stopped.

A submarine, maybe.
What is this?

Obviously some kind of danger.

This barge'll be on the bottom.

Why didn't uncle Fud
get us on the Pecos?

We'd be in Australia by now!

- Spreading this, Johnny.
- Yes, sir..

You wanted to be on the Pecos?
“Who wouldn't?

We ran through her wreckage
last night.

She was sunk within sight of Java.

Take, Frances
put this on murdock, Bettina.

The Pecos?

All our fellows... hunter, and...

They were probably picked up.

Do you believe that, doc?

I believe a little more faith in the
almighty won't hurt any of us.

What are we up against, doc?

We'll know in a minute.

That's a destroyer.
Hear her blowers?

- A Jap!
- Couldn't she be one of ours?

Not in these waters...
But she hasn't seen us... yet.

Doctor Wassell. Doctor Wassell.

An amazing radio pickup, sir!

Commander Goggins asks that you
bring nurse Bettina at once!

- Me?
- Radio? Sure... Bettina.

This is British seventeen...
Can't give you position, old boy..

- Quick, Bettina! It's...
- It's Java, sir.

- What Java?
- Can you hear me?

Urgent that you relay!
Can you hear me now?

- That's dirk's voice.
- Sure, it's dirk.

Where is he?

Clear your wave a bit if you can...
Over to you.

It is the captain that brought
us out of the port.

This is post six-one. Urgent! Can you
contact Dutch headquarters for me?

Where's the post six-one?

I can try, old boy. Carry on.

The Japanese are landing
here, on Widara Payung!

Can you count the ships?

I see seven transport, sir...

Convoyed by two cruisers,
six destroyers...

Their fire has been very heavy
covering the beach...

He's under fire!

What class cruisers? Quick!

One light, one heavy, sir.

The heavy of the suko class, I think...

The leading parties
are well toward shore.

They can't possibly hold...

Some of them are at the head
of the beach now.

I count fourteen barges...

A hundrd men to the barge.

Fourteen barges.
What weapons? Speak quickly!

Light arms, sir.. No!
Many rapid-fire... what do yo call...

Tommy-guns, sir. Shock troops.

Are you supported there?
How are you defended?

- I'm alone, sir.
- Alone!

Can you relay, please...
Dutch headquarters?

Urgent to know...

You've done your part.
Fall back, will you?

- Yes, dirk...
- I have no such orders, sir.

They are deploying now...
They are through the surf,

I can see their faces clearly...
Very well-conditioned troops.

In the heaven's name, boy,
will you fall back while you can!

They see me now.

Oh, dear god! Help him!

Relay, please. Relay at all cost!

Goodbye, sir...

God save the queen!

I should have stayed with him.

I should have stayed with him on Java...

Oh, dirk!

I wish they'd got me...
Instead of him...

He was a great guy.

We're under way again!

We must have cleared
the destroyers in the mist!

Yes, but the mist has gone!

He knew it... that's why
he put me aboard...

Bettina.

The living come before the dead!
There's work to be done.

- Get back to the boys!
- Yes, doctor.

Still lying down, Andy.
That you are not open.

Airplanes sighted!

Two points on the starboard bow.

- Can you identify them?
- They appear to be Japanese.

Japanese!

- Looks as if they are zeros!
- Hard aport!

- All over the world to the ground.
- All over the world to the ground.

Alarm. Alarm.

Everybody life-belts on!

- Stop pushing me.
- Only attempt to adjust the vest.

Hey, mister. Come to help us
with this barrels.

Helps doctor Wayne
to clear the operations room.

Captain says if do you need
any help, doctor?

- We'll make out!
- There are helmets in the radio room!

Tell the captain much obliged.

- Break out those helmets, Johnny!
- Yes, sir.

- Get under there and don't move.
- By the hatches! Down!

- I have them, doc
- throw them over the railing.

Put this in the head.

Hey, what happens?

Look, mommy...

Mommy!

- Come on, mom.
- Run, darling...

Go along with the others.

And don't look back!

My mommy fell down.

How about joining the Navy,
big boy?

Skedaddle under here
and play house.

- Keep this kid laughing!
- I got him, doc!

- I am in charge.
- Leave it to me.

Take, put this on.

- What you are Navy?
- And you can say that too, boy.

U.S. Navy.

We can't help, Johnny.

Doctor Wassell, Dr. Wayne
have been injured.

He's in the infirmary
and he's bleeding a lot.

I'll be right there.
Find his wife.

Yes, doctor.

- They're coming! Help them!
- Yes, sir.

This is the church and this the steeple.
Open the doors and...

And goes up people.

I'm going to show mommy
my new hat.

Clear the room for the injured
and the assistants.

This way, doctor.

Close those windows!

Bettina... cut this trouser leg away!
Where's Dr. Wayne?

Over there, doctor.
Relax, I'll be right with you.

- Hello, doctor.
- Ah, Wassell.

- I've sent for your wife
- my wife? What for?

Because she's the best nurse on
China station! Boiling water, please.

Of all people, I don't want my wife...

Don't argue with me! Hold it.

I'll be right back.

Break out more clean sheets.

No, no. Hold his leg.

A little help, doc?

- Go to see how are the others.
- Yes, sir.

- My leg, you will not had to...
- Let me worry, sailor.

- Bettina, chloroform.
- Yes, doctor.

Dr. Wassell,
Mrs. Wayne is already here.

Thank heaven!
Loosen the tourniquet.

- Yes.
- Help her.

Easy, easy.

- Ralph.
- Oh, is nothing.

I just came across Japanese's
bullet, that's all.

Madeline, I'm glad to see you.
There's work for...

Doctor, is he badly hurt?

- Who are you?
- I'm Mrs. Wayne. Is he badly wounded?

You're Mrs. Wayne!

Good gravy!

What's the matter with you,
Wassell?

Just glad to meet your wife!

Obviously.

I guess Madeline got out
of Java ahead of us?

- Madeline?
- I know whom he means.

Did you see her?
Did she get out okay?

Yes, I saw her.

Madeline sailed from Java...
On the Pecos.

- The Pecos went down!
- Yes, doctor.

Your patient is ready, doctor.

Doctor Wassell...

Yes, yes, I'll be right there...

Honey, bring me a Brandy,
would you?

- He got him! He got him!
- This is my boy!

Watch out, Johnny!

That was a closer shave
than Johnny give me.

Fellers, listen!

What are your hearing... harps?

- I hear fortresses.
- Fortresses?

You're nuts. They're zeros.

I tell you I hear fortresses...
Flying fortresses!

Maybe. Maybe he's right.

American! Fortresses!

- Can you see them?
- Yeah, three couple of points

on starboard quarter!

A whole formation.

All right, kids.

Look at those babies come!

And look at those zeros go!

Like Jay-birds scramming
from an eagle!

Her wings cover the whole ship.

Like a big birdie!

Yes! They're our birdies,
and they're spitting fire.

Give them a cheer!

Hooray! Hooray for the big birds!

Do you not understand, doctor?

They are American planes,
from Australia.

Fine, fine...
I guess maybe we're safe.

- Yes, we're safe!
- The scalpel.

I beg your pardon,
commander Wassell.

- Come in.
- I did, sir.

- Are the boys all right?
- Yes, sir.

The admiral wishes to see you
as soon as possible, sir.

I'm afraid I know what he wants.

It's very urgent, sir.
You're wanted immediately.

Are they in that much hurry
for the hanging?

Do you know who's sitting
on this court martial?

I'm sorry, sir;
I know nothing about it.

I don't blame them,
and that's a fact.

I understood the orders okay, but
I sure stretched them out of shape...

And that thousand guilders
they gave me...

I guess I caught my pocket on a lug...

- Sounds kind of silly, don't it?
- Yes, sir.

That's what I thought.

Gosh.

Looks like I'm a dead duck.

- At your orders, my admiral.
- You are late, doctor Wassell.

Well, this hadn't enough to take
more than a minute. I'm guilty.

I went square against my orders.

I believe we're going to hear something
from Washington on that subject.

Washington! Is it that serious?

Please.

Relatively safe
from such disasters.

That's the president.

Does he know about the thousand
guilders too?

Sailors and marines
are fighting with great bravery

and skill on far distance fronts

to make sure that we shall
remain safe.

I should like to tell you one or two
stories about the men

we have in our armed forces.

There is, for example,

Dr. Corydon M. Wassell.

He was a missionary, well known
for his good works in chine.

He is a simple, modest,
retiring man...

But he entered the service
of his country

and was commissioned a lieutenant
commander in the Navy.

Dr. Wassell was assigned
to duty in Java,

caring for wounded officers and men...

Of the cruisers Houston
and Marblehead...

Which had been in heavy action
in the Java seas,

when the Japanese advanced
across the island,

it was decided to evacuate

as many possible of the wounded
to Australia.

But about twelve of her men...

Were so badly wounded
that they could not be moved.

Dr. Wassell remained with them...

Knowing than he would be
captured by the enemy.

That's the president.

He's talking about me. Drown it!

Made a desperate attempt
to get rid of those men of Java.

He asked each of them
if he wished to take the chance,

and every one agreed.

He first had to get the twelve
men to the seacoast...

Fifty miles away.
The men were suffering severely,

but Dr. Wassell kept them alive
by his skills,

and inspired them
by his own courage.

Good! He got them out!

Our job is to be here on Java
when they come back!

Sounds interesting.

- Does anyone have a cigar?
- Here, mate.

Wait a minute.

Is there any news of the others?

Will we be the only survivors?

No, no, a destroyer picked up
many others.

Yes, and there were more adrift
with their vests.

- Silence, the president is talking.
- The president?

This will interest you people
at the Pecos.

It talks about a doctor who
took some wounded out of Java.

It was after you set sail.
A feller named Wassell.

Doctor Wassell? Could I listen?

Sure. Do you know?

He use to tell me about cat-fish
with whiskers.

It seems to me that
you need a coffee. Joe.

Yeah, sure.

The person to be decorated
is present, sir.

Secretary of the Navy, Washington.

The president of the United States is
pleased to deliver the Navy cross to...

Lieutenant corydon M. Wassell,
United States Navy doctor,

for the actions
that are detailed below.

Wait until it's over

"for their exemplary conduct
and devotion to duty,

and utter disregard of personal safety,
while in contact with enemy forces,

and under attack from enemy aircraft

during the evacuation of the wounded
of the United States Navy from Java.

East indies Dutch in march 1942.

For the president, frank Knox,
secretary of the Navy...

They are putting it on.

Doctor, it is a great pleasure
to decorate a man who saves lives.

- Congratulations, sir.
- Thank you, sir.

- How does he looks?
- Great.

Ladies and gentlemen,
just a moment please.

After finishing the story
of Dr. Wassell...

We have heard that Hoppy
is still alive...

And is a prisoner of war
of the Japanese

thank you.