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- Come in, Royal Navy 371. Come in please.

Over.

- We're having such trouble contacting the British sub.

- Maybe they've stopped for tea.

- I find that in very bad taste, old boy.

- Royal Navy 371 calling Stalag 13.

Come in Stalag 13, over.

- Colonel Hogan here. Glad you could read us.

We're getting worried when you didn't answer our call.

- Nothing to worry about old boy.

The Jerries have had a destroyer tracking us,

but we've managed to give him the slip just in time for tea.

One lump Willoughby, please.

- Tell London I have a message for them.

- Oh, right here. Stand by.

Royal Navy calling London G2. Come in London.

- Colonel Wembley.

- Yes, sergeant?

- We've just made contact with the sub.

They have a message from Stalag 13.

- Well that may be the message to say Hogan has made contact

with the underground.

- Go ahead. Royal Navy 371.

- I'm in contact with London, Stalag 13. Go ahead.

- Tell London that our man Carter

is delivering spare parts

so the underground can repair their transmitter.

- Hogan says his man Carter is now delivering

that spare part to the underground.

- Did you get that message, sir?

- Good show. The underground needs that part

for their transmitter desperately.

Oh, send along congratulations to Hogan and all his chaps.

- I've relayed your message to London and G2 sends along

his congratulations to all your chaps.

- Thank you. Over and out.

- Hope you didn't build up their hopes.

That's some show the Eighth Air Force is putting on.

- They must be bombing that ball bearing factory

outside of town.

- Carter will get through.

He's gotta get through.

The underground's gonna radio London

some German troop movements in time for a probing raid.

- Sir, I'm not putting a knock on Carter, you know,

I think he's a splendid fellow and he did a marvelous job

building that part for the transmitter,

but I just think you should have sent me out

to deliver it to the underground.

- Not at tea time, old boy.

Carter should have been back by now.

- Maybe he waited for the bombing to stop

before he started back.

- The air raid's been over two hours.

- Want me to have a look around Colonel?

- Let's give him a few more minutes.

- Everybody restricted to the barracks.

- Why are we all restricted, Schultz?

- Because there's a shortage of guards.

- How many guards deserted this time?

- No German soldier ever deserts.

- I'd like to be in Switzerland

with the sauerbraten concession, Schultz.

- Where are the guards?

- They are in the woods chasing lions and elephants

and leopards and who knows what.

- Schultz, I thought you didn't hit the schnapps

when you were on duty.

- No, it's true.

One of your bombers smashed and demolished

the ball bearing factory next to the Hammelburg Zoo.

- You mean to say the old zoo got hit

and all those wild animals are running loose?

- The woods are full of them.

- You should have volunteered for the hunt then Schultz,

you could have gotten your wife a fur coat cheap.

- You would like me to go into the woods

with all those animals, eh?

- I happened to be an animal lover.

I think you'd make a great sit down dinner for six lions.

- Funny, funny. Jolly joker.

Everybody's restricted to the barracks

and I'll come back for a roll call.

You understand?

Now back to the barracks. Back back back back.

Everybody back to the barracks.

- We got some great news. The zoo got hit in the raid.

All the animals busted outta cages.

- No kidding?

- Yeah, let's hope Carter got to the underground

before the animals got loose.

- This mission is too risky.

He should have been back an hour ago. It's my fault.

- What were you supposed to do Colonel?

Send him out with a whip and a chair?

- Andrew, where you been? We've been worried about you.

- Hi everybody. - You okay?

- Did you know that the woods were filled

with wild animals from the zoo?

- Well, did you know it was also filled with guards?

And that's why we couldn't get this transmitter part

to the underground.

- At least you're safe. I'll have to send you out again.

Carter. Did you say we?

- Yeah.

- You went on the mission alone.

- I know, but I picked up a friend.

- Who?

- Come on out. It's all right.

- Carter, are you crazy?

What'd you bring him back for?

- I just had to, Colonel,

he was so frightened out there in the woods

and he just ran over and took hold of my hand

and wouldn't let go.

- There were a lot of frightened animals out there.

- You're telling me?

You should have seen the grizzly bear

that wanted to come back with us.

He wasn't so easy to turn down.

- I think it's a great idea he brought him back, sir.

He'll make a marvelous mascot.

- Are you crazy too? We can't keep a chimp in here.

- Sir. I know all about chimpanzees.

I traveled with a circus.

I've roomed with the amazing Bloomingtons,

George and Freddy.

- How does that make you an expert?

- Freddy was a chimp.

Did you see that? I wouldn't mind betting his name's Freddy.

- Probably thinks you're a long lost relative.

- Charming.

- Here you go then Freddy, up on the bunk.

- Hey, just a minute. That's my bunk.

- Come on, there's room for two of you.

You're both the same size.

- You're the chimpanzee expert. Let him sleep with you.

- My pleasure, mate.

Hey Freddy. Come on over here.

This is my place. Come on.

Nothing formal, mind you.

Sit down.

- Alright. Everybody stand by for roll call.

- We're all present Schultz, take my word for it.

- I have my orders from Commandant Klink himself.

There are 14 men in this barracks,

I would like to see 14 faces.

- All right. Be our guest.

- One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

eight, nine, ten, eleven.

Please Colonel Hogan, tell me I didn't see what I just saw.

Colonel Hogan, please tell me,

is LeBeau who is holding my hand?

No, this time you went too far.

Oh, this, I have to report.

It would be worth my life. How did he get in here?

- He climbed over the fence to get away from the hunters.

Wouldn't you, if you were a chimp?

- How can you ask a hippopotamus to think like a chimp?

- You want me to believe that he went over the fence?

- Why don't you ask him?

- Remember Freddy, just name, rank and serial number,

that's all.

- I'm going to ask the questions if you don't mind.

Now you, come here.

Now you tell me. Oh no, that's too much.

Oh, I have to tell this to the commandant.

- Look at that little face,

you can't turn him out among all those wild animals.

Look at him.

- You know, we could use a fresh face in the barracks.

- All right.

I shouldn't do this, but this time I see nothing.

- Thanks Schultz.

- But don't let the commandant see the monkey.

- Monkey, Schultz? Freddy is a chimpanzee.

He's very sensitive about that.

- Oh, I'm sorry Freddy.

I'm going to bring him a knockwurst.

- Colonel, they probably pulled those guards back.

Shall I go out again?

- Nah. If they had, Schultz would've mentioned it.

- We better try something Colonel.

London says the underground needs that part

for that transmitter desperately.

- I know, I know.

Well, I haven't thought of anything, have you Freddy?

- It's a shame the Germans don't have a big game hunter

like my cousin, Emile.

- Did he ever hunt in Africa?

- Yes.

He told me that one day with one shot,

he brought down the largest bull elephant in the Congo.

- Wow.

- The natives called him the king of the bull.

- The Germans don't have a big game hunter,

suppose we gave them one.

- What good would that do?

- While our big game hunter is helping the guards,

he can also make contact with the underground.

- Hey, that's a smashing idea. But who have we got?

- The Bull King's cousin.

- So Corporal LeBeau is really a big game hunter?

- That's right, sir. In one day alone,

he shot enough elephants for six baby grands,

two uprights and a spinet.

- Hogan, my men are perfectly able

to handle the situation themselves.

- Just wanted to offer a helping hand, sir.

- That's very considerate of you.

But these are well-trained German soldiers.

If we can defeat the Russian bear,

we certainly can defeat African lions.

- Have you heard the score from Stalingrad lately?

Bears, 30. Germans, nothing. - Hogan.

- Take my word for it Commandant,

the lions are gonna shut you out too.

- So the cockroach is really a big game hunter?

- That's right.

- But why would a Frenchman volunteer to help Germans?

- He wants to get out the barracks,

get a little fresh air.

- That the only reason?

- No.

After those animals finish gorging themselves

on your guards, they may come in here for seconds.

- Hogan, it is against regulations

to give a gun to a prisoner.

- Oh come on, Commandant. You're a good officer.

You know that sometimes you have to throw away the book.

- Never. A good German officer always sticks by the book.

Just how good a shot is LeBeau?

- I assure you Commandant, I am a fabulous shot.

- You have nothing to worry about, sir.

They'll take care of the wild animals.

- What do you mean they?

I thought you said LeBeau was the hunter.

- He's my gun bearer.

- Gun bearer? - That's right.

You don't send a bwana out alone.

- Bwana?

- That's Swahili for,

I can get a leopard skin for you wholesale.

- Loses a little in the translation.

- Oh, my wife would like to have a fur coat.

- Take Schultz's order.

How about a nice grizzly bear skin?

- On her, it would look like a stole.

- How about-

- How about just shutting up?

LeBeau, are you sure this is not a trick?

- If you have any doubts about my marksmanship sir,

I would be glad to demonstrate for you.

- That's a good idea.

- Check the gun, bearer.

- Everything is in order, bwana.

- Thank you.

See that box?

That's a charging rhinoceros.

- Bwana, that pail down there is a leopard.

Bwana, there is a big bull elephant coming by that sign.

- Guards!

Guards!

- It's all right, Herr General. It's all right.

- It's all right? This prisoner has a gun.

- You don't understand, sir. He is a bwana.

- He's a what? - He's a bwana.

- Klink, you dummkopf. What is the meaning of all this?

- Corporal LeBeau is going out

to help my guards hunt down the animals

that escaped from the zoo.

- You are sending out this man, a prisoner,

out there alone with a gun?

- Oh, no sir. - He's his gun bearer.

- I want to see you in your office immediately.

- Yes sir.

Why do I have to listen to you?

- Hey, what happened?

- Burkhalter showed up and killed the whole plan.

If anybody comes up with an idea how we get in touch

with the underground, I'll be in my office.

- Boy howdy, Burkhalter was so mad.

I bet he's gonna throw Klink to the lions.

- Well, maybe one of us will just take his chances.

- With all those guards roaming the woods,

it would be a million to one.

- Yeah, Kinch is right.

If one of us gets spotted with that radio part

near the underground,

you got a very good chance they might uncover

the transmitter.

- Newkirk, now you've gone too far.

- How about that?

- Newkirk, you're kidding?

- Where'd you get Freddy that outfit?

- I just took one of LeBeau's old fatigue suits.

Lengthened the trousers a bit, it was perfect.

- Don't be so funny.

- Didn't know you were that sensitive, LeBeau.

- I am not sensitive about my height,

but I don't like it that Freddy outranks me.

- All right, all right.

We should be thinking about the mission.

- I've taught him to do a lot of tricks. Watch now.

Freddy, that's enough sweeping.

What about making up the Colonel's bunk?

That's marvelous. Hey, that's enough of that.

Now what about putting the water on for the coffee?

- We'll call you when the coffee is ready, Colonel.

- You did a fine job.

- Very good Freddy.

You know, I've got a great idea.

I'm gonna send Freddy out through the tunnel,

bring in a couple of his chums and we've got it made.

We'll be the only prisoners of war with free live-in help.

- Yeah, but if we're gonna keep Freddy as a mascot,

you better not have him working around the barracks here,

'cause Klink's bound to see him.

- Yeah, Carter is right.

Klink would have Freddy taken back to the zoo like a shot.

- Newkirk, you better take Freddy down to the radio room

until things cool off.

- Right, sir.

I might even teach him how to work the radio,

which would leave you available for other duties, Kinch.

- Hold it. Hold it. Newkirk, wait a minute.

- Yes, sir?

It might be better if Klink did see Freddy.

- But Klink would send him back to the zoo.

- That's right. Sergeant Schultz could be his escort.

- But then we'd lose our mascot.

- We might lose a mascot,

but the underground might gain a transmitter part.

- Colonel Hogan.

You know that prisoners are restricted to their quarters.

- I just can't stay away from you. Is the Kaiser in?

- He's on the telephone with General Burkhalter.

- Planning the winter campaign for the eastern front?

- I think the General may send Colonel Klink there

if he doesn't do something about those wild animals.

The whole town is complaining.

- I better go in and brighten up his day.

- Yes, General Burkhalter,

I will do my utmost to round up those animals from the zoo.

But you see, it is the fault of the zookeeper.

We've never had an escape from my camp. Only from the zoo.

What's that? Transfer me to the zoo?

What a delightful sense of humor, General Burkhalter.

Either you're not laughing or we're having a bad connection.

Yes sir. It'll all be taken care of.

Heil Hitler.

- Getting a little heat from Burkhalter, sir?

- What am I? A zookeeper or the head of a POW camp?

He just doesn't understand my problems.

It's so easy for him to give orders and he expects miracles.

General Burkhalter is so, he's so-

- German. - Exactly.

Hogan, please don't cause any more trouble.

It's enough for one day.

- Actually, I'm here to show you we're helping you out, sir.

- How's that?

- Got the men to volunteer to do some gardening

around the camp.

- Gardening? Your men are restricted to the barracks.

- That's right.

Thought it would look nice if we planted some daisies,

forget-me-nots and buttercups around the camp.

- I was not aware that you were such a nature lover.

- We think it'll go a lot easier for you, sir.

You should be prepared.

- Prepared for what?

- For the liberation.

When the allies march in the front gate,

it'll go a lot easier for you if you're standing there

with a bouquet of pansies.

- I'm not interested in your men doing any gardening.

- Believe me, it'll make the place look real great, sir.

Here, just have a look.

- Just order your men back to the barracks.

- Aw, look, it's good for morale.

Look how happy they are out there digging and raking and-

- Hogan, really. - Look.

Something the matter, sir?

- I'm gonna have to ask for two weeks at a rest camp.

- Really?

- It's no use kidding myself, Hogan,

but the pressure of being number one is beginning to tell.

- It is?

- You won't believe this,

but when I looked out the window, I can't even tell you.

- Go ahead, try me. - You sure you won't laugh?

- You have my word.

- When I looked out that window,

I thought I saw a chimpanzee raking in the garden.

- Well, if it'll make you feel better sir,

there is a chimpanzee raking in the garden.

- That's what I thought.

Well, I need a rest.

What?

- Yeah, he's the sergeant with the stripes.

His name is Freddy.

- Bring that man in here.

- Really, Colonel. He's our mascot.

- Hogan.

There is nothing in the Geneva Convention

that says that you can have a mascot.

- It's not our fault, sir.

He came wandering into camp from the zoo

and we just sort of took him in the outfit.

- Hogan, do you realize what General Burkhalter would say

if he saw chimpanzee working in the garden?

- It's a lot better than if he saw him

lying in the sack goldbricking.

- Well, I'm grateful that a lion didn't walk

into your barracks.

- Him I would let goldbrick.

- You wanted to see us, sir?

- Yes.

- Attention!

- Colonel, before you send Freddy back to the zoo,

I'd like to plead his case.

- Hogan, not another word out of you.

- But if he was in the Hammelburg Zoo, he's a German.

You might say he's a civilian employee.

- Well then he should be shot for fraternizing

with the prisoners.

- How do we know he isn't a spy, sir?

- Good point.

He does look a lot like some of the Gestapo guys I've seen.

- Hogan, I will not be diverted.

He goes back to the zoo and that's final.

- Freddy, you may not believe this,

but this is the first case I've lost.

- Hogan!

- All right. When do you want Schultz to take him back?

- Immediately. - Colonel,

would it be possible just to have a few minutes

so that Freddy could say goodbye to his buddies?

- It's the least you can do, sir.

- All right. Say goodbye, but make it brief.

- It'll be brief,

pretty tough to talk when you're all choked up.

- Calling Royal Navy 371.

This is Stalag 13.

- Royal Navy 371 to Stalag 13. Come in.

- I have a message for London with some instructions

that have to be relayed to the underground.

- Righto, Colonel. I'll contact London to stand by.

- Colonel Wembley,

we're getting some instructions for the underground

from Stalag 13.

- Well that must mean they haven't delivered

that transmitter part yet.

- I've sewn the part in his pocket, sir.

- Take him upstairs and stand by for Schultz to come.

- Right, sir. Come on Freddy.

- Royal Navy 371 to Stalag 13. We have London standing by.

What are your instructions?

- Tell London to inform the underground

the pickup point for the radio part is the Hammelburg Zoo.

- Your instructions are to inform the underground

that the pickup of the spare part

will be at the Hammelburg Zoo.

- At the zoo? Well that could be quite dangerous.

Ask them why they insist on a rendezvous at the zoo.

- Colonel Hogan,

London wants to know why you insist on the zoo

for the rendezvous point.

- Because our courier is a chimpanzee.

- We've had some transmission problem.

Would you repeat that message?

- Repeat. Our courier is a chimpanzee.

- Chimpanzee?

- Chimpanzee?

- Chimpanzee?

I thought we weren't giving our messages in code, sir.

- Perhaps Hogan has forgotten that.

Would you look up chimpanzee in the code book, Sergeant?

- Chimpanzee is not part of the code, sir.

- I have no idea what the message is at all.

- The chimpanzee will be wearing a fatigue uniform

with sergeant stripes and answers to the name of Freddy.

- I've heard of Yankee ingenuity,

but this is ridiculous.

- I was gonna make him a sports jacket, you know.

- You didn't find the material?

- Well, I couldn't find anything right,

do you know what I mean?

- I think he looks better like this.

- You really do? - I think it's great.

- Hey, let me take a look at you then.

You're right handsome, you are.

What took so long Colonel?

Did you have any trouble with the transmission?

- No, but it wasn't easy convincing London

that the man we're sending out is a chimp.

Here's Schultz.

He's all set Schultz.

- What is he doing in that uniform?

- You can't take away his suit.

He's grown awfully found of it, Schultz.

- Yeah, you can't take that away from him.

- It gets pretty cold in a cage. - Yeah.

You wouldn't want anyone see you walking down the street

with a naked chimpanzee, would you?

- Alright. He can keep his clothes on.

- Hey, that's a good boy, Schultz.

- Well Freddy, my old mate, this is it.

I hope we meet again.

- Bye Freddy, good luck.

- Freddy.

You're one of the great chimps of all time.

- I feel terrible taking him away.

Maybe we could say he ran away and you could hide him here.

No, no, no.

- No, we don't wanna get you in trouble.

Now, you've got to do your duty.

Goodbye Freddy.

- Maybe you're right.

Come on Freddy, come on.

- You know, I'm gonna miss the little fella.

- He'll always be a hero in my heart.

- After the war,

I think I'm gonna recommend Freddy for a medal.

- Yeah, the Legion of Merit with a peanut cluster.

- Calling Royal Navy 371, come in please. Over.

- Stalag 13, we've got a message from London for you.

- Royal Navy 371, congratulate Hogan and his chaps.

We've just had word from the underground

that they got that part for their transmitter

from Sergeant Freddy.

The raid will take place as scheduled.

Pity we couldn't use the little fellow again.

He's one of the most reliable couriers we've had yet.

- Thank you Royal Navy 371. Over and out.

- Hey Newkirk, where you going?

- I thought I'd go up and take a look around the woods.

You know, make sure all the guards are back.

- Oh, Schultz said they've captured all the animals

and the guards are back.

- You know old Schultz,

I just thought I'd, you know,

like to take a look around meself.

- It's a very good idea Newkirk. Go right ahead.

- Right, sir.

- Give my regards to Freddy, huh?

- Will do, sir.