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- Davis.

- Those cables still need adjusting

- The speed indicatiors are all sliding over

- You get that stinking deathbox rebuilt

I'm sorry, Sir

-Well,just get it right for once - Yes, Sir

- The CO would like to speak to you, Sir

- Now, what's bothering you?

- Sir - You've been testflying your aircraft

- We normally do that in the mornings

- If we're planning to fly over the Ruhr tonight, Sir

- I'll testfly all day long to get it in shape, Sir

- Really?

- I take that as criticism - Yes, Sir

- We've got good ground crew here. We're damn lucky to have them

- I disagree, Sir

- What the hell do you think you're saying, Carter ?

- We have to accept that the odd magneto cutting out...

- but not brakes that don't brake! I mean that's just bad routine servicing

- It's a mistake, Carter! A rare one!

- You make mistakes, I make mistakes. They made one

- Now, don't bully my ground crew or I'll come down at you like a ton of rock

- Clear?

- What time is practise?

- Is it ops tonight? -Yes - What time do you have to be back ?

- 21:00 - 2 hours...

- Why don't you ask me what kind of day I've had

- Well? - It was lousy!

- First the aircraft with US the groundcrew at fingertrouble

- Had a stupid rown with Canack and now with you

- You know lately,your face has been getting longer than the Mersey canal

- I'm so frightened... frightened for you

- Yes, and I'm frightened too

- I don't know anybody who isn't frightened at the moment

- But we've got to adapt

- I want you to talk to father - No

- You must Simon!

- No, no, no plot! - Please! - None of that

- Cathy...

- I'm gonna need a little more from you in the way of support

- At the moment ... when I'm up there I'm thinking as much of you...

... as I am ... about what I'm doing and what's happening around me

- That's the way people make mistakes.

- Father says " You don't have to fly operationly"

- You know what the score is now

- Ten wives and girl friends already in the squadron...

...have got husbands or boy friends missing or dead!

- Yeah, I know what the score is, but I'm not going to be killed.

- Simon! Please, listen to father.

- Allright! I'll listen to him

- I can't promise anything... here you're going to be late

- Good luck!

- Good evening, Sir

- Hello, Baxter Is mr. Devonshire home?

- I believe that he's turning the wine, Sir, in the cellar

- I'll take you down

- I think I know where the cellar is. Thank you, Baxter

- Evening, Simon

- Where's Cathy? - I dropped her off at the church

- Baxter,have given you a drink?

- No, Sir

- Off to the other side tonight?

- Yes...

- Cathy... Wanted me to talk to you

..oh, some of these bottles have blewn their corks... A damn shame

- It isn't easy... - Sir?

... to talk to you, Simon.

- She doesn't understand you ...neither do I

- She has some idea I'd get out of bombers.

- It's not possible

...and even if it was, I wouldn't

- A taste of this wine

- I was talking to cousin Percy

- I was asking about bomber pilots

- He says that any damn rogue would fly these machines

- He ought to know what.. Herr Vicemarshall

- Bombers get knocked down all the time, don't they?

- It's a risk..

- It's a damn waste of fine young people

- You married Cathy two months ago, you're not giving her much of a chance

- If you are saying that I don't care for Cathy then you're wrong

- I asked cousing Percy to check up on your record

- And he came up with an idea - No!

- No, wait a minute... He's offering you a job -No

..with the Unit of Evaluation, testing new aircrafts... - No, Sir!

- Just think for a moment

- Just someone like you... with brains and talent more than most

- Has a responsibility to see that they're used at a maximum of effect in this mess

- No, I'm sorry

- Taste your wine

- Good?

- Yes, fine...

- It...it occured to me the other day

that...I may not see this one out.

- Sir - This war

- I might go before you chaps get it over with

- Well...if and when I go, I want to leave you good wine

- Have told Baxter to turn all these every 7 months

- 35 Lafite...Magnificent

- If this rampage is over by -43... drink the -34 Chateau Patroux

...so called connaisseurs turn their noses at it, but they are wrong.

- It is an important wine

- See that Baxter keeps the cellar cold

- Just because the damn Hunns are on the march again...

- There's no point in getting slack habits

- Right?

- Right...

- You won't change your mind...

- No, Sir

- I knew all along you wouldn't

- but I promised her that I'd talk to you

- You know, Simon...the trouble with girls is that they don't understand

- about chaps going off to war.

- Never will...Never did

- Course?

- Change to 1-7-9

- Morris, have you checked your guns? - Yes

- Morris

- Last time we came back I thought I smelled alcohol on your breath

- Did you?

- If I find you drinking back there at any time

- You two will face a court martial

- Is that right?

- Yes Tom, that's right

- Cheers!

- You're getting yourself strung out and go to find a way to cope

- For your information, Skip I never touch the stuff

- Flak! Steer-board!

- Course?

- Steer 1-6-0 , Captain

- 1-6-0 What did Holman say after the briefing?

- Jerry was moving this flack line west

- thought it was a hole in the ground

- Well, let's find it! - Aye, Aye Skip

- Flak, Flak!!!

---Sirens sounding---

- Course?

- Steer 1-8-0 - Flak! Flak! Flak!

- Morris!

- Morris! What have you got?

- Hope he's ok, back there You better see Morris

- Aye, Aye Skip!

- Morris, are you ok?

- Don't go, can you hear me? - Are you alright?

- What has happened to Morris?

- Dugal? Dugal? - He's gone...

- Where's that damn gap?

- We're on course, we should be just entering it

- Do you think Jerry really has gaps in his flak line, Dugal?

- Aye! I think he does

- But you never trust a Kraut, do ye?

--- Sirens sounding---

--- he whistles---

--- he whistles---

- Be quiet, Skip! We've been seen I heard voices and a jeep

- Why the hell haven't you yanked your shoot ?

- I'm not laid out here waiting for the second ice age, my legs are kaputt, both of them.

- Oh, Jesus!

- Can you walk at all?

- I can't even stand

- What about the others?

- The river, back there...this way, they came down the other side of it

- We've gonna have to hold out for the night. - Skip?

- We've had to hide this thing. And to get you out of it first

- I'm going to get you under cover there. Allright? - Yeah...

- Now, hold on! - Ahhh...

----doorbell rings----

- Father? What is it?

- I think the Leutenant, like to speak to you.

- Is he dead?

- We don't know, we never saw the plane hit.

- There's no reason to suppose that they didn't bail out

- Where? - Over Germany

- How long before we know whether he's a prisoner?

- It should take 2 or 3 weeks

- Hitler Youth. Two leaders and six boys and they're armed.

- Hell!

- You do realise that I can't go walking in this condition

- Did you manage to work out our position? -Aye!

- It's Hamborn

- 20 or 30 kilometers from Essen

- And I'm not going to make it, You know I'm not going to make it

- Could be just sprained... - Ha!

- No chance! You are looking at a POW, Captain

- Would you give me the compass?

- I'm not leaving you!

- I'm not leaving you...saying it like a rambling Cary Grant

... use Your head man!

- We need to find a barn or something to sit tight for a week

- We're going to need some food

- I'm going to try and get some

- Hey listen! We're in Germany

- Well it's worth a try

- You keep quiet, allright...

---thunder and lightning---

- Father Do you speak English?

- I'm a British pilot, and I need help

- Go away!

- There's another flier... - Go away...

- He's badly injured - Go away, they're watching me

- Halt! - I'll fire!!

- Inside

- I'm sorry for this

- Not your fault...

- I could not help you, the Gestapo have been watching me for three days

- What for?

- I'm a trouble maker

- No talking!

- I come from a farming family

- The secret of agriculture is you never let the animals run the farm

- I said " No Talking"

- If you see pigs wandering in the wheat fields

- You must intimidate them until they return to their sties

- Or they'll destroy everything

- Did you not understand me?

- Why have they arrested you now?

- I had some children hidden in the church

- They found them...

- I will not warn you again!

- Who's children? - Jews

- Jews...

- Yes, first the the parents, now they the children

- Stop! Stop!

- Now what?

- Well, I'll take the truck

I've got a rather long way to go

- I don't think you should come

- That's sensible

- Will you be alright?

- Oh, I've fringed in many times I'll be alright

- Good luck!

- What town have you come from? - Arrest him!!

- Out!

- Handcuffs!

- You are in Octenlage, prisoner war camp

- I am Kommendant Esseln

- I've heard the you made trouble, but you've been paid and the accounts are equal

- But, no more trouble!

- Or you'll find, we can be very difficult and unpleasant

- Even within the terms of the Convention

- Respond to orders! Settle down! Understand?

- Take him away!

- What shape's he in?

- He's in one piece, but got mixed up with the Gestapo

- Oh, really? -He had some Gestapo thug at the barrel of a gun

- Another RAF troublemaker, right? - Yes, Sir

- Rub my shoulder

- The trouble with these RAF chaps is that they live this heroic life

- with all of them about to be shot out of the skies

- They all this school boy enthusiasm to cover the fact that they are a bag of nerves

- They do not settle in and make good POW:s

- Thank you, Tom!

- Now, tell him I'll see him 09:00 If he's recovered from the beating

- Aye, Sir

- What's his name?

- Carter, Sir Flight leutenant Simon Carter

- Well, you look a little bit under the weather

- I am feeling much better today Thank you, Sir

- Sit down!

- So, you're Carter..And you fooled about with the Gestapo?

- And they knocked you about.. - Yes..

- Fortunately, we don't have any dealings with them, We have the Wehrmacht

- Quite reasonable types as long as you don't wrap them up the wrong way

- I hope you'll...relax

...and try to get something useful out of your time here

- I don't intend to relax, I intend to get out of here

- Really? - Yes, we'll come to that...

- You see Carter, we have to get on with these people, to live with them

- Get on? - Yes...

- He's a funny chap. He has this professional correctness...

... in his dealings with us A moral correctness

- he's quite good..so long as you don't challenge his integrity

- Well, I won't be around here long enough to study him in depth, Sir

- I was saying... he is very fair...

... as long as you don't insult his intelligence, by escape attempts

- Then he comes down at you like a ton of bricks

- Yes, I'm aware of that, Sir - Yes, you've decided...

- You'll have a bash of escaping. The first opportunity will present itself

- Yes, I have...

- We have a planned list of departures, Carter

- I'm putting your name on that list, you'll have every assistance to get out.

- some time about June next year

- Next year?

- Every escape from this camp will be properly planned and executed

- I'm ordering you not to risk yourself or your fellow prisoners

- by doing it alone - Carter!

- Is that clear?

- My name's Carter - Saw you last night, feeling better?

- Oh, yes... - Eddie Walthon

- Did I disturb you?

- No...

- You're going out, aren't you? We're you heading, Switzerland?

- Everything organized?

- What squadron were you with?

- I was with 149

- What I need is wine , women and song...

...but just women will do actually

- That's what gets you in the place eventually, no women

- Do you have a girlfriend? - I was married...2 months

- 2 months... - Yeah

- They're tougher than you think... -Nah, not this one

- She never came to terms with the idea of fighting a war

- She's been frightened to death from the start

- That's why I have to get out of here - Well...do it properly

- No need being shot in the back while jumping a wall

- How well has Major Tolby organised your escape?

- Don't just stand there!

- Break it up!

--- creaking sound---

--- sound of a motor engine ---

--- a dog barks---

- Do you know how stupid you have been?

- You stole a truck

- You travelled many miles by train

- But you went round in a circle

- You were caught 4 miles from our gates

- As well as being a stupid man you are also a dangerous man

- You were captured outside Essen on the 21st by the Gestapo

- You escaped...

- You were re-captured and brought here to Octenlage on the 22nd

- You escaped

- Not only dangerous,stupid but also violent

- We have found others like you in our POW- camps

- We have had to find a solution to them, we think we have...

- You have left me no alternative...

...but to pass you on to

- a special POW- camp in Sachsen from where there's no escape

- That's there we're going to send you.. to Colditz

- Take him out!