Original subtitles

Is it safe to cross?

Huh? Of course not. It's broad daylight.

I said, Is it safe to cross?

Come on. We should've been home an hour ago.

How ya doin' Doc?

(Coughs) I'm keeping up with you guys ain't I?

Come on, come on.

(chickens clucking)

That's communications equipment.

Geh zurück.

Komm...komm...komm.

Mehr, mehr. Komm, komm.

Halt, halt, halt.

(German)

(German)

(German) Schnell, schnell.

Meider?

What's that captain saying?

He's saying they're getting ready to set up a headquarters.

Means we're stuck.

Yeah.

What now fearless leader?

Aired Oct 27, 1964

This is the only way out.

Let's hit 'em, then run.

What happens to Doc?

He's one man.

It could be you.

(German soldier eyes chickens)

Company chili on.

Hey.

This kraut's headed this way.

Let's get him up in the loft.

Ach.

Cover him up.

Was ist die Verzögerung?

Holen Sie sich die Ausrüstung installiert.

Bald kommt Von Stolzing hierher.

Wo ist Ziher.

-In der Scheune.

-In der Scheune.

Dass ihm, komm hierher.

Did he say something about Colonel von Stolzing?

Yeah.

Yeah. I heard that name before some place.

He's the one that clobbered us at St. Laurens.

What are they saying about him?

Yeah. Sounds like they expect him here.

When?

They uh...

Said he wants to do an operation with Colonel von Stolzing.

Hey.

Hey wait a minute Saunders.

I came along on this mission to tap kraut phone lines for you.

Not to help you hunt Ponza colonels.

You do that on your own time.

(German)

-They got them, sorry...

-You didn't.

It's alright Sarge. I understand.

You'd never make it carrying me out of here anyway.

Vatta?

Vatta. Wir müssen zur Arbeit kommen.

Hey. They're looking for that guy we just killed.

Vatta.

Vatta. Antwort mir.

Tell him to call his friend.

Dein Kamerad. Hol ihn, um zu kommen. Ruf ihn an.

Karl. Komme hier.

Ja ja. I kome chom.

Karl! Komme hier.

Ja. Komm yashun.

Ask them if Colonel Stolzing is coming.

-You're out of your skull.

-Ask them.

Komm Stolzing nere hier.

Ja, ja. Oberst von Stolzing komm to hier.

-When?

-Lookit. You had...

-When!

(Sigh)

Wann kommt er an.

Diesen Nachmittag.

Sie erzählen uns nicht viel.

This afternoon.

He probably doesn't know anymore than that.

If they move, shoot 'em.

Hey. Where you going?

(German)

(Voice and static over radio)

(German)

Is this a raid Sergeant?

All clear.

I want those two krauts in here from the barn.

Tell Meider, bring Doc in.

Want me to tie them up?

Nah. Let's leave them just the way they are.

Give me your Luger.

Slowly!

Map.

Map!

Oh Sergeant. Why uh...

Why didn't you let him tie us up, huh?

Nah.

Could it be that you would like to give the appearance of a...

German Headquarters and uh...

natural operating procedures in the event someone should just happen to pass by.

Yeah, it could be.

Sergeant. We uh, we have an old saying which goes..

When the reckless hunter sets a trap

he often becomes it's first victim.

Huh?

Huh.

Alright. This way.

Sergeant. My uh, superiors will be

trying to contact me on that radio any moment now.

And what then? Do I uh...

Answer?

You answer it when I tell you.

Caje. Take those 2 and tie 'em then gag 'em.

Kraut, mush.

Watch 'em.

How you making it Doc?

The bed helps.

Meider?

What's all this stuff here?

Uh. It's not important. Some kind of a morning report.

Not important huh?

Track the casualties and know the strength of their outfit.

So? We're never gonna get home with it.

I'm afraid I would have to agree with him Sergeant.

Look. I must give you credit for your uh,

audacity and daring.

Now, what is your unit?

Cold cream Guard. Section 8.

Heh heh.

(Radio)

(German)

Was ist falsch?

Der Betreiber ist draußen?

Sie sollten kommunizieren.

Hier ist Wok im Gange. Ende.

Die Telefonkommunikation funktioniert nicht. Was ist der Grund dafür? Ende.

That's Battalion Headquarters.

They want to know why telephone communications haven't been set up yet.

Tell 'em they're stringing the lines now. Shouldn't be too much longer.

Die Linien werden gespannt. Sie werden bald fertig sein.

Hallo. Hallo. Wer ist zuständig.

Der Kapitän ist beschäftigt.

(German)

Ende.

Der Kapitän ist nicht verfügbar.

Ich will jetzt mit ihm reden.

Wann können wir mit dem Kapitän sprechen? Ende.

They want to talk to him.

Stall 'em.

Um,

(German)

(German)

(German)

Ende.

(German)

(German)

Yes. Tell him I will call back soon.

(Radio)

Try that again and I'll kill ya.

Caje. Take the Sergeant in there.

Tie him and gag him and bring their weapons back here.

C'mon, move.

You sit down over there.

Sit down!

Keep an eye on him.

Doc. Can you hold out a little longer?

Yeah I heard.

See if we can nail this colonel.

It'll be real important.

It's okay Sarge. I understand.

Just beautiful Sergeant. Nearly choked me up.

You should have told him that it doesn't really matter if he kicks off

so long as you pull a Silver Star out of this

and a couple of weeks in Piccadilly to show it off.

Alright. Shut up.

(vehicles heard approaching)

A dispatch runner.

Atta boy Fritz.

Step into my parlor.

(knock knock knock)

Komm!

(German)

(German)

There's always a map.

Ah, jackpot.

Gun emplacements, mortar positions, troop deployment.

Looks like they're straightening out their lines.

We have an old saying too, Captain.

Everything comes to him who waits.

Caje.

Here's one more for you.

Yeah. I can take care of him.

What is it?

Look on the truck.

There's a rifle and a scabbard.

We took all their rifles, didn't we?

Yeah.

Caje?

Yeah.

Did all these krauts have a rifle?

Yeah.

Hey you. How many men in your detachment?

Huh!

Meider?

Do you remember how many krauts came out of that truck when it pulled up?

Yeah. Five, weren't there?

Caje?

I don't know. Why? Is there one missing?

(gun clicks)

Yeah.

The driver.

Beside's yourself, there's one that's dead in the barn,

three in the kitchen and your radio man.

Where's your driver?

But my Sergeant was driving.

Yeah. He has already told you that, huh?

He's lying in his teeth.

It was himself and six men. I remember now.

Well if one got away, he weren't in the barn.

I went through every inch of the hay with this.

Caje. Check upstairs. Pull the closets apart. Pull everything.

Yeah.

Meider.

Must be a cellar or some..

something downstairs near the kitchen. Check that.

Look, we're wasting time.

Take it from me. There was another man.

Right now he's on his way to bring back the whole kraut army.

Check it.

Yeck.

(Dramatic Music)

Anything?

Yeah. I nearly poisoned myself on that home made wine.

Nothing up there Sarge.

Hey look, I tell you the guy got away and if we don't get outta here we're gonna..

(Vehicles heard outside)

Yeah. It sounds like heavy stuff.

Half-Track.

Yeah.

A Half-Track and a troop carrier.

Des last mana bi yu.

De Phizer, Sergeant.

What the hell is that?

Die latte.

Hier ist niemand. Ein verschwendete Tag.

Da ist er in diesem Haus, und facken lee fir Anistie.

Looks like they're lost.

The Lieutenant's chewing out the Half-Track driver.

He might send somebody in here for directions.

Ugotgout and Herr Von Bouncy finds his own tree.

He's coming in.

Caje. Make sure those krauts in the kitchen are quiet.

Tell that operator tell them something I don't care what it is. Get rid of them.

You.

In the kitchen fast.

C'mon.

I am afraid you're going to have to force me Sergeant.

Ist the game out hier.

Ist ir not hier?

(knock knock knock knock knock knock.)

(knock knock knock knock knock)

Game up hier.

Ende faut ta.

Kar ronne.

Thier harmlest rafar and moss uptauler ate us hier.

Kompani aqua diere.

Kant stod avay goen de nicht.

Cut die ayar.

So I can miat an odd licker.

Den, we can wax 'em.

Don a shave.

(Doc is coughing heavily)

Ahem!

(clears throat to mask Doc)

(cough)

See if he's gone. I'll watch the Captain.

(Engine fires up.)

Just gonna sit on one of your medals, Saunders.

You're doing fine Meider. Don't panic.

Look mastermind.

If you think I'm gonna stay here any longer, you're off your rocker.

Just watch Marconi, huh?

Alright. Outside. Let's go.

(sniffs)

-That was kinda close.

-Too close.

(Noise in cellar)

Caje.

(Caje fires many shots)

There was a kraut down there, but he got away.

Well he wasn't down there when I looked, I...

I was...

As I said Sergeant.

When the reckless hunter sets the trap

he often becomes it's first victim.

(Doc moans)

Well Sergeant.

Soon Corporal Krono...

Oh. He is the one who got away.

And soon he will contact one of our Companies.

They will send tanks here and uh...

Pop, fftth,

Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh.

He makes sense to me.

If you would've searched that cellar like you were supposed to we wouldn't be in a bind now.

Oh, you got yourself a scapegoat huh.

Well Sergeant. If you'd obeyed orders we'd all be home safe.

You got a map on you G2 would flip over.

But no. Not you.

You gotta risk everything on some half brained scheme to capture some..some Ponza colonel

who may never even show up.

-Caje.

-Yup.

Wrap up those two.

-Meider?

-Yeah?

Give me a hand with Doc.

Hey.

He's dead weight.

We'll use their truck.

Noela office.

Tabavala office.

Ende.

Zune zeie up mahat mamex storiten.

(German) (Radio)

(German)

Forget it. Let's get outta here.

(German)

Ende.

(German)

Hey.

It's a Major from Battalion. He wants to talk to him.

And he sounds really teed off.

(German)

(German), Ende.

(German)

(German)

(radio)

Forstandun. Ende.

Okay. Let's haul our freight.

Doc we're moving.

Hold it.

Did he say Colonel Stolzing's coming here?

-Yeah.

-Did he say when?

He didn't say. Just said the colonel had left there and was on his way over here.

What's this say over here? What is it?

That's Battalion Headquarters.

How far is that? A couple miles?

Looks more like a mile and a half.

What is this over here? Is this the kraut armor?

Well I hope to kiss a duck it is.

We'd better be gone before it starts rolling too.

I figure it'd take that corporal about ten minutes to get back there.

Unless he met with some krauts on the road.

Well. Suppose he didn't?

The soonest that mechanized equipment can get here would be about five or six minutes more.

Now Stolzing is on his way. He should be here before then.

It's only a mile and a half from Battalion Headquarters.

Roll over and die, Doc. We're staying.

If Stolzing isn't here in three minutes...

we go.

Hallo. hallo.

Achtung, schnell.

Hallo.

Hallo.

(German)

(German)

(German)

Yes Krono. Amerikaners in hier.

Seh gorum, Stolzing, de faun den hier.

Presenti,

He get ahol hib.

Americanner into hier.

On laden and a halla von Stolzing.

Ist das richtig?

Ze understand, the Amerikaner init hier.

(German)

Ta hian.

(German)

Hey. This is absolutely screwy.

The entire German army could be on it's way here right now, and probably it is.

What about us?

You know he's right Sergeant.

Your first responsibilty is the lives of the men in your charge, you know.

Eh, well it does't bother this guy then if a handful of dog faces gets shot to bits.

He's got some kind of uh, a suicide complex.

Two more minutes.

Blah.

Two minutes.

Do you realize our whole platoon could get mowed down in two minutes, or even less.

Knock it off.

Sergeant, may I say something?

You already said it.

By now your corporal has already met up with his buddies and now your half

tracks and tanks are on their way, huh?

Nah, no no. Let us assume that I am wrong in that, eh?

And, let us further assume that you are correct.

That Colonel Stolzing will soon be here.

Let us assume that.

Now Sergeant. Do you think that German Colonels travel alone?

Do you expect Colonel Stolzing to...

to walk in here with no aides?

No driver, no protection at all?

No, Sergeant...

Now what is the first thing they will see when they drive into that yard, eh?

The telephone wires are not even connected.

There is no sentry on duty. There is nothing.

Now Sergeant, do you think the German field officers are stupid? Heh?

Of course they are. They are because Sergeant Saunders said so.

He thinks we're going to take Colonel Stolzing just like Grant took...

Hey.

There's your medal Saunders.

That's our boy.

Hey.

He smells a rat.

Don't give him time to get over it.

There isn't any time.

He's wondering why the wires aren't connected. We better jump 'em.

I want him alive.

Not today. He knows that something's wrong.

Let's talk him into it.

The lowest cost to raise their hand above their heads they're our prisoners.

I don't want any firing.

No. But what if they start something?

They won't.

I`ll cover.

Caje?

Hey kraut.

Go ahead.

(Loads gun, loud click)

Meider, take cover.

(German)

Meider, stay down.

Don't worry.

Caje.

They're gonna try to keep us pinned down while the colonel takes off.

I'm gonna work my way around. Give me some cover.

-Come on Doc.

-Huh?

We're going home.

Ohh.

What's the matter back there?

He just bounced off back off his seat.

Well, get a move on, will ya. The krauts'll be here in a minute.

What's the matter back there Caje?

Well Doc is falling apart.

We got to make him more comfortable.

-We can't wait here.

-We'll wait.

The krauts will be here. Wait and see. They'll be here.

And they'll catch us right in the middle of playing Nursie Nursie.

In the next war deliver me from crazy Sergeants.

Come off it Meider.

I'll spread the word how you stuck your neck out to nail this guy.

I couldn't care less about your prize colonel.

So why did you jump him?

Because he was taking off in the only transportation we had.

Come on Caje. Get a move on.

Sshhh. Hey.

When you start the car, go slow. He's fallen asleep.

That's another thing I can't stand.

Sentimental Frenchman.