Guns Of Batasi
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00:05:22 Come on, lads. Let's be having you.
00:05:26 - What's the matter, Sergeant? - Dusty.
00:05:28 - Get him cracking with the unloading corp. - Yes, Sergeant.
00:05:31 Corporal, when you've done that, here's the mail for the officer's mess.
00:05:34 - Right. - Hi-ya!
00:05:36 End of press.
00:05:39 - You got any mail for me? - Bowed right to you, geek.
00:05:44 Blimey, I'd forgotten what women smelt like. Where's it from?
00:05:47 Ha-ha! Sydney!
00:05:49 One, two, one, two, one...
00:05:52 Ben? Ben!
00:05:55 You're going to get your mind muscled. Sorry, mate.
00:05:57 Come on, load yourselves up! One, two, one, two...
00:06:00 So, our headman is the Prime Minister.
00:06:03 - Your headman is the... - President.
00:06:06 Now, our Prime Minister works in Parliament.
00:06:09 - Your headman works in... - House of Assembly.
00:06:12 Good. Splendid. Now, one of our members of Parliament is coming to this camp.
00:06:16 - I'm sure she'll want to talk to you. - She, sir?
00:06:19 Oh, yes. A woman. A woman member.
00:06:21 Oh, women in Parliament have their uses, you know.
00:06:24 Yes, sir. To carry water?
00:06:26 Yes. Well, we won't go into that one now.
00:06:29 Class dismissed.
00:06:32 - Tim! - Fire!
00:06:35 - Hey, Ben! Is that for me? - Yeah. What is it, then?
00:06:44 Good. That's my degree course.
00:06:47 Blimey. Haven't you had enough education?
00:06:49 Come on, Abber. What about that dirty great pinter got a mouth on me like a gorilla's armpit?
00:06:53 - Ben, schoolie? - No, thanks.
00:06:55 - All right. Just a quick one. - Been down to the railhead?
00:06:57 80 miles of dust track. Enough to boil your brains.
00:07:00 There's something queer going on down in Battersea.
00:07:03 When we came through the main square just now,
00:07:05 it was choked up with Africans running all ways and hollering.
00:07:08 - Fill her up, Abber. - Char.
00:07:11 Some of them tried to stop us and all.
00:07:13 Probably celebrating something. Maybe one of those dare bars.
00:07:16 No. These characters were dead serious.
00:07:18 They were really giving it big licks. Banners and drums and all.
00:07:23 Now, here comes the RSM. We'll have to get changed.
00:07:25 When he comes in and catches us like this, he'll do his tech.
00:07:29 There's a man there!
00:07:47 Come here!
00:07:53 There!
00:07:55 When you pass a commission officer,
00:08:02 you don't wave your end about like a pregnant penguin.
00:08:06 You execute a salute in the following manner.
00:08:10 Raise the right hand by the longest root
00:08:12 till the second finger rests one inch above the right eye.
00:08:14 At the same time, turn the head and your eyes in the direction of the officer.
00:08:16 When one face past the officer, return the eyes to the front
00:08:18 and your hand to the right side by the shortest root. Is that clear?
00:08:22 Yes, sir.
00:08:23 Right.
00:08:25 Let's see you do it then, lad. Come along, come along.
00:08:28 Salute in my numbers.
00:08:30 One!
00:08:33 Two!
00:08:35 One!
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00:08:39 Put that in the fire, will you?
00:08:41 A message from command, sir.
00:08:45 Thank you. You'd better wait.
00:08:49 Sir?
00:08:50 Come in.
00:08:59 Priority signal from command, sir.
00:09:03 Read it out, Turney, will you?
00:09:05 Yes, sir.
00:09:07 Serious political riots reported in the capital.
00:09:10 For the duration of these disturbances,
00:09:12 British personnel will retire to their respective messes
00:09:15 and take no part in regimental activities.
00:09:18 British officers commanding African formations
00:09:20 will hand over command forthwith to senior African officer
00:09:23 and await further instructions from this HQ.
00:09:26 It's all right. We made it.
00:09:30 He's still at it.
00:09:32 One!
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00:09:36 - Lovely hour, Roger. - A pint, please, Digger.
00:09:38 - Right. - And the usual for Ben.
00:09:40 Well, this will be my last Queen's Birthday dinner.
00:09:43 So you really are. They won't let you extend?
00:09:45 No, mate. Too bloody old.
00:09:47 We'll come and see you off at the airport.
00:09:49 I'll sink a few pints that day.
00:09:51 I reckon old Ben's got himself a smashing job out there.
00:09:54 They've got no time for hairy old soldiers in Civvy Street.
00:09:57 You'll be all right once they see you standing up there
00:10:00 as a ramrod holding your guts in, slamming your feet down.
00:10:03 Give this man a kick in the crutch out of it.
00:10:05 Why don't you become a doorman, Ben?
00:10:07 I know a bloke who's knocking off 16 pounds a week.
00:10:09 Stand around a doorway all day saluting every stray bastard
00:10:12 that comes and goes.
00:10:14 Not likely I'm chocker with that bloody lot.
00:10:16 Ben, the great British public will see that you get your reward.
00:10:19 Slap your foot down, slap it down hard.
00:10:23 RSM's getting carried away out there.
00:10:25 He's three and a half minutes late.
00:10:27 He must have fractured his elbow by now.
00:10:29 He wouldn't let a little thing like that hold him up.
00:10:32 You won't get away with that. You'll spot it in two minutes.
00:10:39 - You want a bet? - Fight's all round.
00:10:42 - You're on. - Right.
00:10:44 There's nothing for you, old man of muscle.
00:10:47 Now leave off.
00:10:48 Why don't you call me muscles like everybody else?
00:10:51 - Muscles? - Yeah.
00:10:52 - You notice anything different? - What's going on?
00:10:55 - Evening, gentlemen. - Evening, sir.
00:11:00 What's it gonna be, sir?
00:11:15 - I'll have a whiskey for me. - Sir.
00:11:16 How's the marriage prospects, Corporal Abbo?
00:11:18 Oh, very fine, thank you, sir. Very fine.
00:11:21 Dodger, weren't you supposed to have the lawnmower repaired?
00:11:23 - Yes, sir. - I tried it this afternoon.
00:11:25 I regret to say it wouldn't cut off butter.
00:11:27 We'll have to get some more table mats.
00:11:30 Down at Command HQ they've got some new ones
00:11:32 stamped with the regimental crest.
00:11:34 These old ones are shabby. They're a disgrace.
00:11:37 Silver to do with the polish, too, Corporal Abbo?
00:11:41 - Sir. - Anybody got a light?
00:11:44 Yes, sir.
00:11:46 Now tell me which bloody fool among you
00:11:52 removed Her Majesty's portrait?
00:11:54 I'm afraid that was me, sir.
00:11:56 I bet Ben Pint saw round you wouldn't spot it under two minutes.
00:11:59 - Put it back! - Yes, sir.
00:12:01 I'll have proper respect shown in this mess.
00:12:05 You may think you know me, gentlemen.
00:12:08 You may think you can see me coming, but let me tell you this.
00:12:11 There's no alteration, celebration, no argumentation
00:12:14 and no qualification in this mess that escapes my little eye.
00:12:18 Read, learn and inwardly bloody digest.
00:12:21 I've seen cow cut up.
00:12:23 I've eaten camel down.
00:12:25 My knees are brown, my navel is central,
00:12:27 my conscience is clear
00:12:29 and my will is with my solicitors short and curly.
00:12:33 I believe you're in the chair, Dodger.
00:12:38 Guard, stand at ease!
00:12:40 Come in.
00:12:55 Is that for me, sir?
00:12:58 Yes, Captain Abraham.
00:13:00 Take a look at that.
00:13:04 Serious political riots in the capital.
00:13:07 British personnel will take no part in regimental activities.
00:13:12 A few political hotheads, sir.
00:13:14 We'll hand over command to senior African officer.
00:13:19 He will assume command of this battalion as of now 1900 hours.
00:13:26 This is quite a shock, sir.
00:13:28 I'm afraid it's a shock.
00:13:31 This is quite a shock, sir.
00:13:32 I'll call my officers together.
00:13:36 Right.
00:13:38 I would welcome your advice, sir.
00:13:40 Of course, anything I can do.
00:13:43 - Thank you, sir. - All right, Abraham.
00:13:45 Come on, Charlie.
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00:14:18 Move!
00:14:20 Come on, move!
00:14:23 Move! Move!
00:14:25 Harsher! Harsher!
00:14:28 - Arkansas! - They don't seem to like us very much.
00:14:37 Of course they do. It's just their way of expressing themselves.
00:14:41 (PEOPLE SHOUTING)
00:14:42 Proud as a peacock he was, saluting like a guardsman.
00:14:56 Thought I was back at the depot for a minute.
00:14:58 Except for his colour, of course.
00:15:00 - That's what you need in the army. - Isn't that so, Ben? Pride.
00:15:03 Remember the church parades in Singapore before the war?
00:15:08 Everybody marching through the town on a Sunday morning,
00:15:10 behind the band and drums, bags of swank.
00:15:12 Sea of ease, Catholics, anti-Baptists, every bloody thing.
00:15:17 There was a man, name of Smith, 279.
00:15:21 Refused to go to church on the grounds he was an atheist.
00:15:24 I had to whip him up in front of the colonel, of course.
00:15:26 Old Colonel Killingbeck, it was. He was a wicked old bastard.
00:15:29 When Smith said he was an atheist,
00:15:32 old Killingbeck said, "His documents."
00:15:34 You stated you were church...
00:15:37 (PHONE RINGING)
00:15:38 "You stated you were Church of England when you enlisted," he says.
00:15:43 Smith says, "I know, sir, but I've changed my mind in the meantime.
00:15:49 "In this regiment," says old Killingbeck,
00:15:51 "only the officers change their mind,
00:15:53 "and even they have to get permission in writing."
00:15:56 (LAUGHS)
00:15:58 28 days' glass hours they gave him,
00:16:00 which was something to shout about in those days.
00:16:02 Wonderful station, Singapore.
00:16:05 What was your favourite station, Muscles?
00:16:06 The best station I ever knew was Malta before the war.
00:16:09 The navy used to go on fleet manoeuvres and leave their wives behind.
00:16:13 All soft and pink.
00:16:15 Willing.
00:16:17 We made sure they never got lonesome.
00:16:20 (LAUGHS)
00:16:22 You didn't have time to wipe your boots.
00:16:25 (BOTH LAUGHING)
00:16:27 You couldn't beat India, though, you know, Ben.
00:16:30 Jewel of the East, they used to call it.
00:16:32 What a pity they had to go and give it away.
00:16:35 Well, gentlemen, do you all understand the new situation?
00:16:38 -Yes, sir. -Yes, sir.
00:16:40 Good. I just want to remind you of one thing.
00:16:44 It is your duty to carry out the orders of the elected government.
00:16:48 It is not for us to concern ourselves with politics.
00:16:51 -Is that quite clear? -Yes, sir.
00:16:54 Very well.
00:16:56 Shall want to see you all again at 9 o'clock sharp tomorrow morning.
00:16:59 That is all.
00:17:02 (DOOR OPENS)
00:17:03 Boniface.
00:17:07 Sir?
00:17:09 Bunny, your company is on duty tonight.
00:17:13 Yes, sir.
00:17:15 Travel all pickets with guards from the arms and ammunition stores.
00:17:19 Don't issue any ammo except on my instructions.
00:17:23 Somebody might shoot somebody.
00:17:26 Recall A and B companies.
00:17:30 Here's the signal.
00:17:31 Will that be all, sir?
00:17:34 For the moment.
00:17:36 You'll come back later. We'll do rounds together.
00:17:38 Sir.
00:17:40 Well, the battalion seems to be in very capable hands.
00:17:59 I'll put Mr. Lauderdale in the picture
00:18:02 and then we can get changed for the party.
00:18:04 Just relax.
00:18:06 (PHONE RINGS)
00:18:08 Hello? Yes. Yes, he's here right now.
00:18:11 -It's for you, sir. -Oh, thank you.
00:18:14 Colonel Deal speaking.
00:18:17 Yes, well, I could be there in a couple of hours, sir, but...
00:18:21 Well, won't he wait until morning?
00:18:24 Very well, Sir William.
00:18:28 -Damn! -What's the trouble, sir?
00:18:30 The deputy commissioner wants to see me.
00:18:33 Tonight.
00:18:35 Oh, phone Mr. Lauderdale and say I'll call in on my way.
00:18:38 Right, sir.
00:18:40 Oh, last. I nearly forgot.
00:18:43 The Barker-Wise woman.
00:18:46 She wants to spend an evening in the sergeant's mess.
00:18:50 -Lay on the transport, will you? -With pleasure, sir.
00:18:54 What bad luck, sir. You having to go off this evening.
00:18:57 I mean, with the nurses coming to dinner and everything.
00:19:00 Yes, it is bad luck.
00:19:03 But to you too, Tony, you're coming with me.
00:19:07 Now, you wouldn't credit a sausage fly at brains, would you?
00:19:11 But this little beast landed on my shoulders three times running.
00:19:14 -Real tame of you, sir. -How do you know it's the same one?
00:19:17 -Well, I can tell, can't I, Spawn? -(PHONE RINGS)
00:19:19 European sergeant's mess? One moment, sir.
00:19:22 Sergeant Mitchell Lauderdale, it's for you, sir.
00:19:24 Yeah, let's try and see if we can get him plastered, shall we?
00:19:27 -Anything else ought to make you up? -Get your laughing gear around that, mate.
00:19:30 Very well, sir.
00:19:32 CO's on his way over. Ben, be ready to offer him a drink as soon as he comes through this door.
00:19:35 Sir.
00:19:37 Good evening, Mr. Lauderdale.
00:19:42 Evening, sir. Would you care to come in for a drink, sir?
00:19:45 There's nothing I'd like better, but I'm afraid I'll have to keep.
00:19:48 The war office have got a flap on.
00:19:51 What again, sir?
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00:20:25 In the meantime, you will be responsible for the safety of the members of your mess.
00:20:39 There shouldn't be any complications if we keep our heads down
00:20:42 until this little spot of bother blows over, and then we can carry on as usual.
00:20:49 -Sir. -Oh, and don't forget what I told you about Miss Barker-Wise.
00:20:52 She's a member of Parliament, so tell your chaps to be a bit, uh, diplomatic.
00:20:58 I'll tell 'em, sir.
00:21:00 Ah, look, he can hardly walk straight.
00:21:08 He's got the hiccups now.
00:21:10 (CHUCKLING)
00:21:12 Little bastard bit me.
00:21:14 (GROANING)
00:21:17 If I'd had the colonel with me, I'd have bit you.
00:21:19 You were so long, sir, we couldn't think what was happening.
00:21:21 Does the gallant colonel bring good news from the front, sir?
00:21:23 He does. Marvellous news. News to set your little ears a-tingling.
00:21:26 -I'm late for everybody's... -Now, now, now, pay attention.
00:21:29 You're all confined to the mess till further notice.
00:21:33 -Well, what have we done, sir? -Nothing you've done.
00:21:35 It's due to the political situation.
00:21:37 -Well, how long till further notice, sir? -In this case,
00:21:39 till order's restored down in the town.
00:21:42 Marvellous, isn't it? Bloody marvellous.
00:21:46 Chocolate mechanics chuck bricks at each other
00:21:47 and the whole British Army's immobilised.
00:21:49 May I remind you, son Brown,
00:21:51 they're not all chocolate mechanics, they're Africans.
00:21:54 And you're not the old of the British Army.
00:21:56 Thank God.
00:21:58 -Coblarewood. -Sir.
00:21:59 I want an extra place laid for dinner.
00:22:01 -We shall be entertaining a lady. -Yes, sir.
00:22:03 A lady? Blimey, a woman? Not one of those nursing vids from the hospital.
00:22:06 We're entertaining a member of the House of Commons, Miss Barker-Wise.
00:22:08 -Oh, blimey. -Right, I want this place tidied up.
00:22:10 Digger, sling those empties over the bar.
00:22:12 -Muscles. -Sir.
00:22:14 -Scoolie, hide these disgusting magazines. -Sir.
00:22:17 -Dodger. -Sir.
00:22:18 Make yourself useful. Come along, come along.
00:22:20 And remember this.
00:22:22 If I catch any member of this mess
00:22:24 drifting about the hardships of a soldier's life
00:22:26 into the ear of a certain member of Her Majesty's Government...
00:22:29 You're sure she's not a member of the opposition, sir?
00:22:31 I don't care if she's a member of the Royal Belly.
00:22:33 If I catch anybody belly...
00:22:35 ...bellyaching, it'll be harder after she's gone.
00:22:39 The Army's a great life and don't you forget it.
00:22:42 Right, here she is.
00:22:43 Now, I want you all behaving like little old Fonterroids.
00:22:46 No blasphemy, no obscenity, and above all, no bad language.
00:22:51 Who the bloody hell are you?
00:22:58 Evening, Sergeant Major.
00:23:00 Step aside, let's have a look at you.
00:23:04 Evening all.
00:23:05 What's your name, lad?
00:23:14 Wilkes, Private Wilkes.
00:23:16 I shan't be Private Wilkes for much longer.
00:23:18 Oh, really?
00:23:20 What will you be then?
00:23:22 Field Marshal Montgomery?
00:23:24 -Yes, sir. -Yes, sir.
00:23:26 -And you? -I'm a private.
00:23:28 Private Wilkes.
00:23:30 Private Wilkes.
00:23:32 Field Marshal Montgomery.
00:23:34 Stand away, I say!
00:23:36 Identification card.
00:23:40 Yes, well...
00:23:46 Private Wilkes, 714.
00:23:49 What are you doing here?
00:23:51 In transit, back to England for demo.
00:23:53 Sir! Sir!
00:23:55 What's this?
00:24:01 Sir?
00:24:02 This is Miss Erickson, sir. She's...
00:24:08 She's on her way back to Paris.
00:24:10 She got stranded at the airport, same as me.
00:24:12 No planes taking off.
00:24:15 That's right.
00:24:17 Mr. Wilkes was kind enough to look after me.
00:24:19 Oh, this is all highly irregular.
00:24:25 This is a military establishment, not a hotel.
00:24:28 Well, I couldn't do much else, could I, sir?
00:24:31 She's, uh...
00:24:32 She's with the United Nations, and, uh...
00:24:34 Well, we're supposed to keep in with them.
00:24:36 Well, they are on our side.
00:24:40 Aren't they?
00:24:42 I came out as a secretary with a team of United Nations observers.
00:24:46 And I stayed on for a little holiday.
00:24:49 Yes, well, we'll talk about that later.
00:24:54 If you'd like a clean-up.
00:24:56 Yes, please.
00:24:58 Then we'll see what we can arrange.
00:25:00 In.
00:25:01 -Big! -Yes, sir.
00:25:03 Show the ablutions.
00:25:04 This way, miss.
00:25:09 Reg, will you stand fast?
00:25:11 When are you due for discharge?
00:25:14 Day after tomorrow.
00:25:16 Doesn't look as though you're going to make it, lad, does it?
00:25:18 It's all highly irregular having a private soldier in the sergeant's mess.
00:25:21 You'd better keep down in the ration store, through there.
00:25:24 Yes, sir.
00:25:29 Wilkes!
00:25:30 Sir.
00:25:31 Hang on to your card, lad.
00:25:33 Never move without your B2601.
00:25:34 Chin up, chin up!
00:25:36 Now, understand this, Wilkes.
00:25:38 I can always stomach a good soldier, whatever his faults.
00:25:42 What I can't stomach are Bolsheviks, Skyvers, Skrimshankers, and Boghouse Bedisters.
00:25:47 I've broken more of them than you've had eggs for breakfast.
00:25:50 If I take a liking to you, lad,
00:25:53 I'll be your good friend and counsellor.
00:25:57 If you offend me,
00:25:58 I'll pull out your sausage-like intestines,
00:26:01 hang them round your neck,
00:26:03 and prick them every so often like they do real sausages.
00:26:05 Good evening.
00:26:07 Evening, ma'am.
00:26:12 Regimental Sergeant Major Lord Adair, if you'll miss Marker-White.
00:26:14 I do hope I'm not interrupting anything.
00:26:16 No, ma'am. We're just having a discussion on, um, discipline.
00:26:20 May I introduce Sergeant Prido.
00:26:23 - How do. - Sergeant Brown.
00:26:24 Sergeant Vick.
00:26:26 Sergeant Dunn.
00:26:27 - Sergeant Smith. - How do you do?
00:26:29 And this is...
00:26:30 There it is, I need.
00:26:32 Private Wilkes.
00:26:34 - How do you do? - Take your cap off.
00:26:35 - Won't you sit down, ma'am? - Thank you.
00:26:37 - What about a noggin? - May I have a whiskey?
00:26:40 Corporal Abbell, large whiskey.
00:26:42 What about you, Wilkes?
00:26:44 Oh, it's a very kind of you, sir. I'll, uh...
00:26:46 I'll have a large whiskey, too, please.
00:26:48 And the usual, orders, Corporal.
00:26:50 - Sir. - Come on, lads, come on. Quite informal.
00:26:53 Well, this is the first time we've had the honor of entertaining ladies in this mess.
00:26:57 - Ladies? - Yes, come on, sit down, sit down.
00:26:59 Yes, there'll be another one after a minute.
00:27:01 Typist got stranded at the airport.
00:27:03 This is quite an occasion.
00:27:05 Indeed. Well, it's an occasion for me, too.
00:27:07 It's not often one gets the chance of seeing things for oneself,
00:27:11 especially the new African army.
00:27:13 Perhaps after dinner we could all sit round
00:27:15 and I'll fire questions at you.
00:27:17 Yes, well, as long as we don't come up against the Official Secrets Act, of course.
00:27:23 Oh, I don't think we shall do that.
00:27:24 No, what I'm most interested in is how you get along with your African colleagues.
00:27:29 How soon they'll be ready to take over completely, you know?
00:27:32 That sort of thing.
00:27:34 Come in.
00:27:52 - Hello, Captain. - Hello, sir.
00:27:54 - How are you? - Fine, thank you.
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00:40:51 - What's the matter? - I'm not feeling well.
00:40:53 - What's the matter? - I'm not feeling well.
00:40:55 - What's the matter? - I'm not feeling well.
00:40:57 - What's the matter? - I'm not feeling well.
00:40:59 - What's the matter? - I'm not feeling well.
00:41:01 - What's the matter? - I'm not feeling well.
00:41:03 - What's the matter? - I'm not feeling well.
00:41:05 - What's the matter? - I'm not feeling well.
00:41:07 - What's the matter? - I'm not feeling well.
00:41:11 - Get in the sack. We're not building sandcastles.
00:41:13 - Come on.
00:41:15 - Come on, get a move on. We'll be here all bloody night with you.
00:41:19 - Give us that before you rupture yourself.
00:41:23 - I'll shovel and you grunt.
00:41:26 - I'll shovel and you grunt.
00:41:28 - Don't slow down, Roger.
00:41:44 - Don't slow down, Roger.
00:41:46 - Come on, get out of the way.
00:41:55 - You've seen my face before.
00:41:57 - Lieutenant Boniface said no.
00:42:02 - Come on.
00:42:04 - Right.
00:42:07 - Come on.
00:42:13 - Hmm.
00:42:14 - Hope it's caught from the timber.
00:42:16 - Never make a sergeant. No initiative.
00:42:19 - Right.
00:42:21 - Halt! Who goes there?
00:42:44 - Free.
00:42:47 - Open up, digger. Take your thumb off the bolt, private Juma.
00:42:50 - How many times have I told you, right standard, east lead.
00:42:53 - You cannot go in there, sir.
00:42:55 - Lieutenant Boniface gave me orders.
00:42:57 - Let's have a look at that.
00:42:59 - Doesn't look clean to me. You hold this bolt.
00:43:01 - Appanna, Sargini. Sargini, appanna.
00:43:04 - You'll have to do better than that, Juma.
00:43:07 - Go for the timber!
00:43:16 - Friends, first digger, three of them.
00:43:18 - Hustle, see to the ammo.
00:43:20 - Keys.
00:43:22 - Digger, burnings.
00:43:24 - Digger, magazine.
00:43:26 - Roger.
00:43:29 - You on?
00:43:32 - You on?
00:43:34 - You on?
00:44:03 - Quiet a minute.
00:44:05 - Right, you two carry on.
00:44:08 - I'll lock up after you.
00:44:11 - Watch your back.
00:44:13 - Come on, let's go.
00:44:17 - Come on, let's go.
00:44:19 - Come on, let's go.
00:44:21 - Come on, let's go.
00:44:23 - Come on, let's go.
00:44:25 - Come on, let's go.
00:44:27 - Come on, let's go.
00:44:29 - Come on, let's go.
00:44:31 - Come on, let's go.
00:44:33 - Come on, let's go.
00:44:35 - Come on, let's go.
00:44:37 - Come on, let's go.
00:44:39 - Copper on the timber.
00:44:41 - Come any closer, you'll get brambles up your pipe.
00:44:45 - Right, let's get back.
00:44:49 - Come on, let's go.
00:44:51 - Oh, that...
00:45:13 - The old man missed the siege of Tobruk, that's his trouble.
00:45:18 - Don't hang around doing nothing, lads.
00:45:20 Get those bags onto the veranda and start setting up some firing posts.
00:45:23 This isn't a penitentiarity camp, you know.
00:45:25 Right, get a wiggle on.
00:45:27 Come on, come on.
00:45:29 - Here they are.
00:45:35 - Stay with him, will you, Miss Erickson?
00:45:38 - Yes, of course.
00:45:40 - Don't strain yourself.
00:45:42 - Oh, so you're back.
00:45:44 - Get these guns cleaned, lads.
00:45:46 - First, Muscles, get the grenades out of the track.
00:45:49 - Sir. - Now, ma'am.
00:45:51 - Health care grenade, ma'am.
00:45:53 - I demand to know what's going on. What exactly are you doing?
00:45:56 - Well, at this precise moment, ma'am, I'm charging an SMG magazine.
00:45:59 - Has it occurred to you that the rebels, or whatever you choose to call them,
00:46:02 were leaving us alone because we were unarmed?
00:46:05 That what you were doing can only provoke more bloodshed?
00:46:08 - Well, that's a matter of opinion.
00:46:10 I'm surprised at you, ma'am. I thought you believed in all men being equal.
00:46:13 - Of course I do. That's exactly the point.
00:46:16 They had guns and we didn't.
00:46:17 - That wasn't very equal, was it? - Sir.
00:46:19 - Private Wilkes. - Sir.
00:46:21 - Put this safety catch on next time, Dodger. Know what this is?
00:46:24 - Yes, sir. It's a Sterling SMG. I've even fired one.
00:46:26 - Well, that doesn't make you unique. Everyone in this room's fired one,
00:46:29 except Miss Barker-Wise, of course. Take it and get back on guard.
00:46:31 - There must be some way to stop this madness.
00:46:33 Why don't you at least make an attempt to contact the other side?
00:46:36 - I've already done that, ma'am. - You have?
00:46:38 - Give me another box for 9mm. - Oh, no, didn't you tell me what happened?
00:46:41 - What's the matter with that? - Yeah, this barrel's in a hell of a state.
00:46:43 - Have a look.
00:46:45 - Give it another pull through and take a chance.
00:46:47 - Will you tell me what happened?
00:46:49 - Nothing much, ma'am. We ran into Lt. Boniface's party down the ammo dump.
00:46:53 - Barney, is he in charge?
00:46:55 - Rust! I'll have somebody on a fizzer when this lot's over. Dodger?
00:46:59 - Is Lt. Boniface in charge?
00:47:01 - Well, he gave me that impression, ma'am. Yes.
00:47:03 - Thank God. Thank God.
00:47:05 - I wouldn't be too hasty about doing that.
00:47:07 - Let me go and talk to him. He's a civilized and cultured man.
00:47:10 He'll listen to me. Please arrange the transport.
00:47:12 - You'll be safer here for the moment, ma'am.
00:47:14 - Safer? In the middle of this gunpowder plot you're organizing?
00:47:19 - Very well, I'll walk.
00:47:21 - All stand by the door.
00:47:23 - Do you intend to keep me here by force?
00:47:27 - Now, listen to me, ma'am.
00:47:34 - You're not in Parliament now.
00:47:36 - This isn't England, and I know more about these people than you do.
00:47:40 - And don't run away with the idea that I've got a down on them
00:47:43 - because their skin isn't the same color as mine.
00:47:45 - Their best is as good as our best.
00:47:47 - But their bad's as rough as ours, and that's pretty rough.
00:47:50 - Now, I'm responsible for your safety while you're in this mess,
00:47:53 - so while you're here, you'll obey my orders.
00:47:56 - If you don't like it, you'll have to lump it.
00:48:00 - This is intolerable.
00:48:02 - I agree, ma'am. But don't blame me. Blame your harmless little Africans.
00:48:06 - Blame them? Who put guns into their hands?
00:48:08 - Who taught them to shoot? You.
00:48:10 - And if it wasn't for people like us, you wouldn't be able to walk around
00:48:12 - with your smarmy, silly, bloody, half-baked ideas.
00:48:15 - That remark, Sergeant Major, may well cost you your rank.
00:48:20 - Stay with her, Muscle, so she quietens down, so she doesn't leave the mess.
00:48:23 - Halt!
00:48:24 - What a rot, old cow. No wonder the officers dumped her onto us.
00:48:28 - All those nurses up there, I bet they don't mind being cooped up for a year.
00:48:33 - As long as somebody can knit.
00:48:36 - You must admit, the old bag's got guts.
00:48:40 - I only hope to God she doesn't get to be Prime Minister.
00:48:43 - Muscle!
00:48:53 - Colonel Deal. Glad you've arrived. Sir William's waiting to see you.
00:48:57 - You're in for a long party tonight.
00:49:00 - I'm afraid so. A change of government can affect an awful lot of people.
00:49:04 - Is it as close as that?
00:49:05 - Yes, I think so.
00:49:07 - I think so.
00:49:08 - All right. Keep me informed.
00:49:16 - Hello, John.
00:49:18 - Sir William.
00:49:19 - Danny.
00:49:20 - Hello, sir.
00:49:21 - Well, you made good time.
00:49:22 - Well, it sounded serious.
00:49:23 - Yes, it is. Things have happened fast since I spoke to you.
00:49:26 - Whiskey?
00:49:27 - Oh, fine. Thank you, sir.
00:49:29 - To put it mildly, the position is, well, delicate.
00:49:34 - I've just had the buzz that the President is on his way out of the country.
00:49:37 - Taking his wives with him.
00:49:39 - That'll leave the rebels a clear field.
00:49:41 - I think we should get out of the habit of calling them rebels.
00:49:44 - By the morning, they may well be the government.
00:49:46 - Fantastic. In less than 36 hours.
00:49:48 - Yes, well, no doubt it was well prepared first. Harry Jobel has thought of that.
00:49:52 - Seems to be no stopping him now.
00:49:54 (phone rings)
00:49:55 - Oh, excuse me.
00:49:56 - Yes?
00:49:59 - When did you hear this?
00:50:03 - All right. Ring me back.
00:50:04 - The Afro-Britannia mines.
00:50:07 - And you boys have just taken over.
00:50:10 - You know what that means?
00:50:12 - The wealth of this country.
00:50:14 - No, no. Harry Jobel is no fool.
00:50:17 - It doesn't make sense.
00:50:19 - Five years in jail and within six months of coming out,
00:50:22 - he's on his way to the President's palace.
00:50:24 - He spent that six months here as a gardener.
00:50:26 - Got to know him pretty well.
00:50:28 - Lousy gardener.
00:50:29 - Hope he'll make a better President.
00:50:32 - Anyway, going to jail is considered a shortcut to power these days.
00:50:34 - I hope it never happens in the army.
00:50:36 (knock on door)
00:50:37 - Come in.
00:50:38 - A radio message from the airfield, sir. Jobel's men are in control.
00:50:42 - Any casualties?
00:50:43 - No, sir.
00:50:44 - Good.
00:50:45 - Get on to the camp, Tony. Is that all right, sir?
00:50:47 - Yes, yes. Use this one.
00:50:49 - I want to talk to Captain Ibrahim.
00:50:51 - Get me Bartowsi Camp, please.
00:50:54 - What's going to happen? In the future, I mean.
00:50:58 - I should think that once we get to the camp,
00:51:01 - I should think that once the position is stabilized,
00:51:02 - they'll want us to carry on as usual.
00:51:04 - And Jobel will need all the support and advice he can get,
00:51:07 - if he's going to fulfil some of those promises he's made.
00:51:10 - The thing to do is to hang on, and above all, keep our noses clean.
00:51:14 - Excuse me, sir.
00:51:15 - There's something wrong with the line to the camp.
00:51:17 - They can't make contact.
00:51:18 - Give me that.
00:51:20 (crickets chirping)
00:51:25 (dog whining)
00:51:29 (dog whining)
00:51:32 (dog whining)
00:51:35 (footsteps)
00:51:38 (footsteps)
00:51:41 (footsteps)
00:51:44 (footsteps)
00:51:47 (footsteps)
00:51:50 (footsteps)
00:51:53 (footsteps)
00:51:56 (footsteps)
00:51:59 (footsteps)
00:52:02 (footsteps)
00:52:05 (footsteps)
00:52:08 - Halt! Who goes there?
00:52:10 - Halt! Halt!
00:52:13 - Sergeant Major?
00:52:15 (footsteps)
00:52:18 - Armed party, a dozen men.
00:52:21 - Who goes there?
00:52:24 - Lieutenant Boniface.
00:52:27 - Advance, sir, unarmed, and be recognised.
00:52:31 - You two, come with me.
00:52:36 - Muscles.
00:52:37 - Sir?
00:52:38 - Go back and keep your eyes on Miss Barker-Wise.
00:52:40 See she doesn't come in till these people are gone. Understand?
00:52:43 - Sir.
00:52:44 (footsteps)
00:52:47 (footsteps)
00:52:49 - Good evening, Sergeant Major.
00:52:51 I hope this call isn't too inconvenient.
00:52:55 - It's a pleasure, sir. Let us hope it will remain one.
00:53:00 - Indeed, sir.
00:53:04 (footsteps)
00:53:07 - Good evening, gentlemen.
00:53:09 - Evening, sir.
00:53:11 (footsteps)
00:53:14 - Now, sir.
00:53:16 Sergeant Major, I've come to inform you
00:53:20 that I've taken over command of the battalion from Captain Abram.
00:53:23 You'll therefore regard me as your commanding officer.
00:53:27 - I've only got one CO, sir. That's Colonel Deal.
00:53:32 As far as I'm concerned, Captain Abram is in temporary command of the battalion.
00:53:36 - As far as I'm concerned, Captain Abram is a traitor.
00:53:39 And anyway, he's dead.
00:53:41 - I'll believe that when I see it in casualty return.
00:53:44 In the meantime, sir, will you please remove your headdress
00:53:47 while in the Sergeant's mess and request your escort to do the same?
00:53:50 - Leave them on.
00:53:52 - It's our nature.
00:53:54 I'm not interested in points of etiquette at the moment.
00:53:56 - Mr. Boniface!
00:53:58 I've been a member of this mess for 23 years, sir.
00:54:02 In all that time, I've never seen anybody, man, woman or child,
00:54:06 Sergeant, one and other, the Field Marshal or Prime Minister,
00:54:09 walk into this mess with his head upon his head!
00:54:12 I do not see you now, sir.
00:54:16 - All right.
00:54:20 If it worries you.
00:54:22 - Now, sir.
00:54:34 Can I be of service?
00:54:37 - I wish you to understand, Sergeant Major,
00:54:40 that I will give you protection if you cooperate with me.
00:54:43 Your future in my country is very limited, you must appreciate.
00:54:46 - Limited, did you say, sir?
00:54:49 That's a very elastic word.
00:54:51 - No doubt you'll be sent back to your own country in due course.
00:54:54 At this very moment, the new President is considering the matter.
00:54:57 - And where do you come in, Mr. Boniface?
00:54:59 You was a loyal officer, sir. Where do you come in?
00:55:01 - Loyal to whom?
00:55:03 To the corrupt lackeys your government left to lead us
00:55:05 when they granted us our so-called independence?
00:55:08 So you consider that soldiers should not be revolutionaries?
00:55:13 Your Cromwell was a soldier, wasn't he?
00:55:16 Did he not grab Ireland, Sergeant Major?
00:55:20 - Well, you know, sir, it was only for their own good.
00:55:22 The mix have always been obstinate, sir, very obstinate.
00:55:26 As for myself, I'm a soldier. I don't understand politics.
00:55:31 - Well, I do understand them, Sergeant Major.
00:55:33 And for my political education, I'm obliged to one of your compatriots.
00:55:37 Miss Barker-Wyse.
00:55:39 However, I did not come here to discuss politics.
00:55:41 I've come to tell you all that you must remain here
00:55:44 until I receive further instructions from the new government.
00:55:48 My men will surround the mess and they will shoot anyone who tries to leave.
00:55:51 In the meantime, I'm taking possession of the camp
00:55:55 in the name of the new republic.
00:55:57 Sergeant Major, you will deliver to me all your arms and ammunition
00:56:02 and I will be responsible for your safety. Is that understood?
00:56:06 Also, I shall withdraw your servants who will be required to carry arms.
00:56:10 Corporal Abel, Private Daniel.
00:56:15 You will collect all the mess silver and your kit
00:56:18 and report to me in the orderly room.
00:56:21 Do you hear me?
00:56:28 - Yes, sir. - Yes, sir.
00:56:32 - You will be responsible for the rest of the mess.
00:56:41 - Yes, sir.
00:56:44 [dog barking]
00:56:47 [dog barking]
00:56:50 Now, Sergeant Major,
00:57:15 if you leave all your weapons on the veranda,
00:57:17 I will send a squad of men to collect them.
00:57:19 I will inform you of any later developments.
00:57:21 Just one moment, sir!
00:57:23 If you please.
00:57:26 Well?
00:57:28 Now you listen to me, Mr. Barney, first.
00:57:33 I'm a professional soldier,
00:57:35 born across the road from Wellington Barracks.
00:57:37 I enlisted when I was 17.
00:57:39 By the time I was 24, I was a sergeant
00:57:41 serving on the northwest frontier of India.
00:57:43 Sometimes, Mr. Boniface, I'd lay awake in my tent
00:57:46 with a hurricane lamp,
00:57:48 sometimes in the middle of a blizzard
00:57:50 reading about the exploits of other British soldiers.
00:57:53 Sometimes I'd be lying there in my freezing cold tent
00:57:56 actually sweating,
00:57:58 beads of sweat pouring down my face
00:58:00 from a battle 200 years old.
00:58:02 And later on, I had a little active service of my own
00:58:05 to take notice of.
00:58:07 Now what I'm coming to, sir, is this.
00:58:09 All this experience of warfare,
00:58:11 imaginary and otherwise,
00:58:13 gives me a certain amount of experience
00:58:14 to face this little misunderstanding
00:58:16 with a certain amount of song-fla.
00:58:18 It's a fly on the wall, sir,
00:58:20 a fight with a feather.
00:58:22 - Silly! - No, I refuse to...
00:58:24 As far as the weapons are concerned,
00:58:26 I was ordered by my CO to keep them to swap flies with.
00:58:29 And until I get further instructions from the same source,
00:58:32 I intend to hang on to them.
00:58:34 - Now, look here, sir... - Will you please listen to me?
00:58:37 You seem to have gained control of this battalion
00:58:42 through an act of mutiny very well.
00:58:43 You're entitled to the mess, servants,
00:58:46 because they're your countrymen, not mine.
00:58:48 You're entitled to the mess property,
00:58:51 because it stands on your soil.
00:58:54 But if you think for one moment
00:58:57 that I'm going to hand over the lives of these people
00:59:00 to the custody of a half-cooked, jumped-up,
00:59:04 sad little black bald warrior like yourself,
00:59:07 you're very much mistaken!
00:59:11 Do I make myself clear?
00:59:13 Absolutely clear, Sergeant Major.
00:59:19 I always knew that one would turn out to be a savvy boy.
00:59:31 Well, that fixed him for a bit.
00:59:35 Provided the servants don't tell him we've got Abraham.
00:59:39 Abu won't. Abu's the same tribe as Abraham.
00:59:41 Boniface comes from the coast.
00:59:45 Abu's people look on all the coastal tribes
00:59:47 as several grades lower than bush rat.
00:59:50 Let's hope you're right.
00:59:52 Sergeant Major, what right has this man
00:59:56 to keep me confined to that room?
00:59:59 - My authority, ma'am. - Am I under arrest, then?
01:00:03 Not yet, ma'am. Not yet.
01:00:07 Sergeant Major, I can end this ridiculous nonsense
01:00:10 in five minutes and get Captain Abraham to hospital.
01:00:13 I implore you, please send me to Boniface.
01:00:16 No, ma'am. And for a very good reason.
01:00:20 It'd be a waste of time. He's already been to see us.
01:00:23 That boy? You mean he's been here?
01:00:25 He left a few moments ago.
01:00:27 He wanted to tell me that he'd seized control
01:00:30 of the battalion by mutiny,
01:00:32 and that if we'd all be good little boys and girls,
01:00:35 he wouldn't come to any harm.
01:00:36 I sent him off with a flea in his ear.
01:00:38 You did what, you bloody fool? Why didn't you let me talk to him?
01:00:42 I know Boniface like my own son.
01:00:44 Did you tell him about Captain Abraham?
01:00:46 - I did not. - Why?
01:00:48 If you'll excuse me, ma'am, I've got to get on with battalion orders.
01:00:51 If he doesn't get a doctor, he'll die.
01:00:53 We've all got to die sometime, ma'am.
01:00:55 If I handed him over to your little pal Boniface,
01:00:57 he wouldn't stand a hope in hell.
01:00:59 Nonsense. He's a very humane man. His principles are very sound.
01:01:01 They've all got a bullet up the spout.
01:01:04 Let me tell you this.
01:01:05 Your stupidity is placing all our lives in danger.
01:01:09 When you talk of principles with a bullet up the spout,
01:01:11 that's a perfect example of your own mentality.
01:01:14 You're a living gun.
01:01:16 They've turned you into a human rifle.
01:01:18 They've taken away your personality, Sergeant Major,
01:01:20 bit by bit down the years,
01:01:22 and replaced it with a sort of military stuffing.
01:01:25 Left, right, about, turn, obey, fight, kill.
01:01:28 - Don't be impudent, ma'am. - That's all you know.
01:01:32 You're an instrument ready primed to put to someone's shoulder,
01:01:34 a royal trigger in waiting.
01:01:37 Listen, just you be careful, ma'am, that I don't go off.
01:01:40 What's your life?
01:01:42 A dull routine round a bootlicking, waiting for a war.
01:01:46 The only way you'll ever fulfil yourself is to die in action.
01:01:50 What are you huddling about there for like a brood of wet hens?
01:02:01 Wilkes, get back on guard.
01:02:03 Scully, get that ammo stone away.
01:02:06 Miss Erickson.
01:02:08 - You cook? - Oh, yes.
01:02:11 I expect the dinner's spoiled by now, but perhaps you do what you can.
01:02:14 Yes, sir.
01:02:16 Muscles, dig up. Get that table tidied up.
01:02:19 It's the Queen's birthday.
01:02:21 And even if we have to have paraffin and brick dust sandwiches,
01:02:24 we're going to celebrate it.
01:02:26 With or without our distinguished guest.
01:02:31 Dodger, don't stand there like a spare wick at a wedding.
01:02:34 - Get me a drink. - Sir.
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01:03:34 (GUNSHOTS)
01:03:35 What the hell do you think you're doing?
01:03:49 Now just do what you're told and you'll have nothing to worry about.
01:03:52 Throw down your revolvers, both of you.
01:03:55 Oh, no. By what authority?
01:03:58 The authority of the new government.
01:04:01 Now, you listen to me.
01:04:03 This revolver is staying where it is
01:04:07 until I see some signed order from a legal member of your government.
01:04:12 All right, Colonel. Now get moving.
01:04:27 Meanwhile, you might get your men to change that wheel.
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01:04:39 -John Wilkes! -Sir.
01:05:03 You better hear this.
01:05:05 I've drawn up guard detail and battalion orders for tomorrow.
01:05:07 Right, now about the sleeping arrangements.
01:05:11 Miss Erickson will go in your room, Dodger.
01:05:13 You go in with Digger.
01:05:15 First time I get a bird in my room, I'm posted absent.
01:05:18 Ben, Miss Barker-Wise will be in your little nest
01:05:21 and you can go in with Muscles.
01:05:22 -That's a happy release. -Scooley, you stand fast
01:05:25 and I'll be in here.
01:05:26 Now, you'll all sleep fully clothed and that includes boots.
01:05:29 If anything does happen, I don't want anybody to get a burst up the backside
01:05:33 so I'll send you down looking for your perishin' boots.
01:05:35 Provide you with the usual time, no 600 hours,
01:05:37 the last men on guard can have a nice long day until half past.
01:05:40 Right.
01:05:42 Ben, as soon as you change over your kit, you relieve Wilkes.
01:05:44 Carry on.
01:05:46 -Come on, darling, let's go to camp. -Get out of my chip.
01:05:51 All right.
01:05:53 Go.
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01:06:52 (dramatic music)
01:06:54 I suppose you realize that this is strictly against Queen's regulations.
01:07:00 (dramatic music)
01:07:03 (dramatic music)
01:07:21 (dramatic music)
01:07:23 (dramatic music)
01:07:26 Better be getting back in.
01:07:33 Hey.
01:07:38 Um...
01:07:40 You know what you want to do if it gets too hot in your bedroom?
01:07:45 No, what?
01:07:50 Just...
01:07:51 Just leave your window open.
01:07:54 (snoring)
01:08:07 (snoring)
01:08:15 All right, all right, all right, Wilkes. I'm relieving you.
01:08:19 I've put a palliace in the ration store, so you'd better go and get some kip.
01:08:22 Well, I...
01:08:24 I think I'll just take a stroll before I turn in.
01:08:26 Take a stroll?
01:08:28 Blimey, you've been strolling up and down here for two hours.
01:08:30 What's the matter with you?
01:08:31 -Insomnia. -What?
01:08:34 -Chronic insomnia. -Now, wait, wait, wait a minute.
01:08:36 You want to see a quack about that, you know.
01:08:38 You might get rings under your eyes.
01:08:40 Good night.
01:08:42 Good night.
01:08:44 Good night.
01:08:46 Good night.
01:08:47 You crafty basket weaver.
01:09:03 Who is it?
01:09:07 It's all right.
01:09:11 It's only your blind Uncle Charlie.
01:09:13 Hello, Wilkie.
01:09:15 Hello.
01:09:16 Now, wait a minute.
01:09:37 (SIGHS)
01:09:38 (SIGHS)
01:09:39 (SIGHS)
01:09:40 (SIGHS)
01:09:41 (SIGHS)
01:09:42 (SIGHS)
01:09:44 (SIGHS)
01:09:46 (SIGHS)
01:09:47 (SIGHS)
01:09:48 (SIGHS)
01:09:49 (SIGHS)
01:09:50 (SIGHS)
01:09:51 (SIGHS)
01:09:53 (SIGHS)
01:09:54 (SIGHS)
01:09:56 (CLICKS)
01:09:58 (CLICKS)
01:10:00 (SIGHS)
01:10:01 (THUD)
01:10:06 (THUD)
01:10:27 (BIRDS CHIRPING)
01:10:29 -Scooby? -Huh?
01:10:45 (CLEARS THROAT)
01:10:48 All quiet, Scooby?
01:10:49 Quiet as the proverbial grave, sir.
01:10:51 Yes, never mind the proverbs.
01:10:53 I didn't get my rank on a proverb.
01:10:55 No, sir, unless it's God helps them that help themselves.
01:10:58 Miss Barker-Wise?
01:11:23 Will you please tell these men to take their hands off me?
01:11:26 (SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
01:11:27 You must forgive them. I gave orders no one was to leave the mess.
01:11:34 Please, sit down.
01:11:35 Thank you, Bonnie.
01:11:37 I had to come and see you.
01:11:39 What about, ma'am?
01:11:41 Captain Abraham.
01:11:42 Captain Abraham?
01:11:46 He arrived at the mess last night. He'd been wounded.
01:11:49 Perhaps it was an accident, I don't know.
01:11:51 But he must have immediate medical attention.
01:11:54 That's no problem. I'll see that he's removed immediately.
01:11:58 (SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
01:12:02 There.
01:12:09 That's settled.
01:12:10 Thank you, Bonnie.
01:12:12 I knew it was only a matter of common sense and reason.
01:12:15 Now, if you'll give me an escort,
01:12:18 I'll go and see that Captain Abraham is ready for the ambulance.
01:12:21 I'm afraid I can't allow that. I must ask you to stay here.
01:12:23 (SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
01:12:24 I don't understand.
01:12:29 Squad, halt!
01:12:33 Is that how you're going to fetch Captain Abraham?
01:12:40 If necessary.
01:12:41 What's going to happen to him?
01:12:44 He'll be charged with treason and if he's found guilty, he'll be shot.
01:12:46 But what has he done?
01:12:49 He's known to have opposed the National Unity Party.
01:12:51 Is that all?
01:12:52 I forgot you're a member of Parliament.
01:12:56 Well, we do things a little differently here.
01:12:58 Perhaps we're in more of a hurry.
01:12:59 But, Bonnie, I...
01:13:01 I don't understand you.
01:13:04 When you were in England, you were...
01:13:07 So different.
01:13:10 Yes, I was one of your African mascots then, wasn't I?
01:13:13 Sitting at your feet, listening to you talk.
01:13:15 My God, how you talked.
01:13:17 No one talks better than the British. They drug you with talk.
01:13:20 When you wake up, they still have their heel on your neck.
01:13:22 I feel excused.
01:13:24 But, Bonnie!
01:13:25 Now, you just listen to me, the lot of you.
01:13:29 Owing to a gross piece of negligence, the Parker Wise woman has escaped from the mess.
01:13:32 I don't blame one man any more than the rest.
01:13:35 You've all been walking around in your sleep, so watch it.
01:13:37 Keep your eyes rolling and your minds ticking.
01:13:41 And be sure to check your guns.
01:13:43 Excuse me, sir.
01:13:46 Very well, dismissed.
01:13:47 Now, what do you want?
01:13:48 Mr. Boniface is here, sir.
01:13:49 With an armed party.
01:13:51 Gentleman, go on. No muscle, go.
01:13:53 He's coming in on his jack.
01:13:57 Don't hang around the windows. Disperse yourselves around the room.
01:14:02 Dig a muscle. On the other side.
01:14:03 Yes.
01:14:04 Good morning, gentlemen.
01:14:11 Good morning, gentlemen.
01:14:12 Sergeant Major, I'll come quickly to the purpose of this visit.
01:14:26 I understand from my friend, Miss Parker Wise, that she's been kept here under duress.
01:14:30 For her own safety, sir.
01:14:32 And I'd be obliged if you'd have her restored to my custody.
01:14:36 She insisted on returning to Batasi, Sergeant Major.
01:14:39 (GLASS SHATTERS)
01:14:40 There is something more important for us to discuss.
01:14:46 You have here a wounded officer. Captain Abram, not so?
01:14:52 Miss Parker Wise informs me that this is so.
01:14:55 Well, she must have been mistaken.
01:14:57 Women of her intelligence do not make such mistakes!
01:14:59 I understand that Captain Abram is badly in need of medical treatment.
01:15:05 If you'll hand him over to my custody, I'll see that he...
01:15:07 (GLASS SHATTERS)
01:15:08 There is no officer of that name here.
01:15:15 Now, don't waste my time!
01:15:16 I insist that you hand over Captain Abram.
01:15:19 He's required to answer for crimes against the new republic.
01:15:21 That's his hardship, not mine.
01:15:23 Or being very stupid.
01:15:25 The affair of Captain Abram is the affair of government.
01:15:28 You will hand him over at once!
01:15:30 Mr. Boniface,
01:15:33 suppose for the sake of argument Captain Abram was wounded
01:15:36 and had come to me for protection.
01:15:38 In that case, sir,
01:15:39 I wouldn't be at liberty to hand him over without a direct order from Colonel Deal.
01:15:44 We'll appreciate that it is I who give the orders, and you who will obey.
01:15:48 For the first time in the history of my country, Sergeant Major,
01:15:51 it is the African who is putting the shell into the breach
01:15:54 and giving the orders to fire!
01:15:55 Really, Mr. Boniface,
01:15:59 I don't think I've ever come across a misfit of your size and quality before.
01:16:03 You've missed your vacation, so you ought to be in Hyde Park!
01:16:06 If you do happen to go putting a shell into the breach, sir,
01:16:11 I sincerely hope that you'll remember to put the sharp end to the front!
01:16:15 You are in great danger! All of you!
01:16:21 You have already refused to give up your weapons.
01:16:24 Now you refuse to hand over an officer who is wanted for treason!
01:16:28 Sergeant Major, I will give you an hour to change your mind.
01:16:30 If you haven't delivered Captain Abraham into my charge by that time,
01:16:33 I will destroy the Sergeant's mess and everyone in it!
01:16:36 One hour, Sergeant Major.
01:16:52 Squad!
01:16:53 Command!
01:16:54 Halt!
01:16:56 Right turn!
01:16:58 March!
01:16:59 Do we get any danger money for this caper?
01:17:03 Ah, probably bluffing.
01:17:06 Bluffing like bloody hell he was.
01:17:08 Well, they can't do this to us, can they, Stafford?
01:17:10 But it's not in Queen's regulations.
01:17:12 It's there somewhere, boy. They've got everything taped in there.
01:17:14 We ought to let him have Captain Abraham on a written guarantee of safe conduct.
01:17:19 Then we're in the clear!
01:17:20 Safe conduct? How long do you think that'll last?
01:17:22 Well, it's no skin off our nose.
01:17:24 We can always say they broke their promise. It's no concern of ours.
01:17:27 No concern of ours.
01:17:30 You stupid...
01:17:32 Put your man into the arms of a firing squad and you say it's no concern of ours.
01:17:37 You're bloody keen, aren't you?
01:17:39 What's he ever done for you, Captain Abraham, or any of them?
01:17:41 I'll tell you what he did for me!
01:17:42 Men!
01:17:43 Men!
01:17:44 Look.
01:17:52 I had a skinful one night.
01:17:54 Around four o'clock in the morning I felt somebody shake me while I was sleeping and off.
01:17:57 It was Abraham. You know what he said?
01:17:58 - Well... - Now, I'll tell you what he said.
01:18:00 He said, "Colour Sergeant, I just had a very strange dream.
01:18:02 "I dreamed that I went to the arms store and helped myself to 100,000 rifles.
01:18:05 "Now, I didn't need an exacting telling, boy.
01:18:07 "I got up and bolted around the armory and found I'd forgot to lock it.
01:18:11 "Now, if it was anyone bar Abraham on duty, I'd have got court-martialed for negligence.
01:18:13 "Now, you tell me one European officer that wouldn't have stuck it on his report.
01:18:16 "Just tell me one you know of!"
01:18:18 Thank you, Sergeant.
01:18:20 You all right, sir?
01:18:24 You shouldn't be walking about.
01:18:26 I'm all right.
01:18:28 I'm sorry, sir.
01:18:34 I can't allow you to leave the mess.
01:18:38 You cannot prevent it, Sergeant Major.
01:18:41 Don't you see that while I remain, I'm involving you in my own affairs?
01:18:43 Is that good ethics?
01:18:46 I'm not interested in good ethics or bad ethics.
01:18:48 Or politics, I trust.
01:18:51 Well, you're lucky.
01:18:54 Thank you for your hospitality.
01:18:58 Ben!
01:19:01 Ben!
01:19:05 Ben!
01:19:07 Ben!
01:19:10 Before you go, sir.
01:19:11 Yes, Sergeant Major.
01:19:15 What is it?
01:19:17 I've given you the protection of this mess, sir.
01:19:20 If you insist on going against my advice,
01:19:23 would you please sign a chit to say you'll do so willingly?
01:19:26 All right.
01:19:29 But I must ask you to hurry.
01:19:32 Yes, of course.
01:19:38 Yes, of course.
01:19:39 I, Captain Obispo...
01:19:53 Abe...
01:19:57 Abe...
01:20:06 do hereby...
01:20:08 declare that I...
01:20:18 leave the...
01:20:22 European...
01:20:25 Sergeant's Mess...
01:20:29 at my own...
01:20:33 will...
01:20:34 ancestors.
01:20:40 Now, sir.
01:20:50 Would you please sign this, sir?
01:20:56 Just here.
01:20:59 [panting]
01:21:00 I've signed for many things in the Army, Sergeant Major.
01:21:09 First time I've signed for myself.
01:21:14 [sighs]
01:21:15 Ben!
01:21:32 That's all, come on!
01:21:33 Take him back to his room.
01:21:35 I thought for one nasty moment he was still alive.
01:21:43 For one nasty moment he was trying to get off the hook.
01:21:45 There are more ways of killing a cat than sticking a poker in his ear, lad.
01:21:50 I think I'll have this framed.
01:21:56 Sir, take a look at this.
01:21:59 The cat gun is the bofus.
01:22:13 [dramatic music]
01:22:14 That's what the bar scape man when he talked about putting a shell in the breach.
01:22:19 The only weapons in this battalion...
01:22:27 capable of...
01:22:29 burning salt and blazes.
01:22:30 Not that the gunner's very smart, but...
01:22:33 you can't better all miss a Sergeant's Mess at 100 yards in broad daylight.
01:22:37 Now!
01:22:42 The quickest way to put a bofus out of action is to shove a 36 grenade in the breach.
01:22:45 Simple as that.
01:22:46 Two guns...
01:22:49 so it'll need two of us.
01:22:50 Now I know you're all itching to get out there and get stuck in...
01:22:54 so I'll offer it to the first volunteer.
01:22:56 Come along, lads, come along, don't be shy.
01:23:03 What's the matter with you, lost your tongue?
01:23:10 Well, don't have to detail somebody, eh?
01:23:11 Oh, gentlemen...
01:23:18 you amaze me.
01:23:20 You honestly amaze me.
01:23:22 I do honestly declare to you that I've never seen anything like this in all of my service life!
01:23:29 Holy suffering!
01:23:31 The first chance we get...
01:23:35 of a bit of action...
01:23:38 instead of sitting on our duffs like a lot of prized billy goats...
01:23:42 and there's not a man among you...
01:23:45 not one man who's even got the guts to admit he's a coward.
01:23:49 I'll tell you what it is, sir.
01:23:54 In the war, all you have to do is go out and find the enemy and give them the chopper.
01:23:59 But these blokes are supposed to be on our side.
01:24:03 Well, we don't know if we're on foot or horseback.
01:24:07 I'll go.
01:24:08 - Come on, let's toss. - I said I'll go.
01:24:10 All right, steady on, Ben.
01:24:12 I'll go.
01:24:14 I mean, after all, Ben, you've got to use your loaf, you're a bit old for this job.
01:24:18 - I'm what? - Well...
01:24:19 - Drop it, Dodger! - You've got a family, you know.
01:24:21 Now, Ben...
01:24:23 you have only got ten days to do in the army and I take that into full consideration.
01:24:26 So if you want to leave it to Dodger or Digger...
01:24:29 that's all right with me.
01:24:31 Leave it to them.
01:24:32 They couldn't fix a rat in a drainpipe.
01:24:34 Sir?
01:24:35 Yes, what is it?
01:24:36 It would be simpler to toss for it, wouldn't it?
01:24:38 Well, is anybody against tossing up for it?
01:24:42 All right, get a move on.
01:24:45 Ben?
01:24:54 Russells?
01:24:56 Dodger?
01:24:59 Digger?
01:25:05 Wilkes?
01:25:06 The Queen.
01:25:19 God bless her.
01:25:20 Right, then.
01:25:23 That's you and me.
01:25:24 Now's your chance to get smothered in glory.
01:25:27 Wilkes.
01:25:29 Come on.
01:25:30 ( dramatic theme playing )
01:25:33 Come on!
01:25:35 ( dramatic theme playing )
01:25:37 ( dramatic theme playing )
01:25:39 36s are ready, sir.
01:26:06 Right, we'd better take two each just in case any one of us gets through.
01:26:09 Lay out to the camp, sir.
01:26:19 Good.
01:26:20 With me, Wilkes.
01:26:21 Sergeant's mess is here.
01:26:26 The guns... there.
01:26:29 Now, if we come up from the front, they'll make jam of us.
01:26:32 So we go out of the back and round there.
01:26:35 Right.
01:26:36 How are you going to get across the road?
01:26:37 Will you stick a boomerang in that great Aussie cake over yours till I've finished?
01:26:40 They're just lining up on us.
01:26:54 Right.
01:26:56 We come out the back where there's plenty of cover and make our way round to there.
01:26:59 Now, this is the tricky bit.
01:27:00 Ben, give us two minutes to get here.
01:27:03 Then I want you to attract their attention.
01:27:05 And if you can hold it for even five seconds, we'll be across this road.
01:27:08 How about some cover fire, sir?
01:27:10 What, with two bofors sticking right up our jumper?
01:27:12 No, no, no. Make out you're otherwise engaged.
01:27:14 A fight, party, I don't care. Do a dance.
01:27:16 Wilkes, all right so far?
01:27:18 Yes, sir.
01:27:19 I wonder they didn't make you a sergeant.
01:27:20 I had a strike once. Lost it after a fortnight.
01:27:23 After this little lot's over, you'll probably get it back.
01:27:25 Not too late to stay on and change your mind, you know, lad.
01:27:27 Now then, once we're across this road, we'll make our way through the firing butts.
01:27:31 And then?
01:27:32 Well, there's plenty of cover there. We'll play it by ear.
01:27:35 Now, Ben, we'll be at the end of the buildings in two minutes.
01:27:39 And then we'll wait till you start your fracker.
01:27:42 And keep it going till those guns go up.
01:27:44 I make it...
01:27:48 ten seconds short of 06.33.
01:27:52 So zero from...
01:27:54 now.
01:27:57 Come on, Wilkes.
01:27:58 Good luck.
01:28:01 Give me a hand with the piano.
01:28:04 (Tires screeching)
01:28:06 (Tires screeching)
01:28:09 (Tires screeching)
01:28:11 (Tires screeching)
01:28:39 Right, Wilkes.
01:28:41 A minute and a half to go.
01:28:53 (Tires screeching)
01:28:56 (Tires screeching)
01:28:58 (Tires screeching)
01:29:01 (Tires screeching)
01:29:29 Wilkes.
01:29:30 Sir?
01:29:31 (Speaking French)
01:29:32 Come on, quick.
01:29:38 Ali?
01:29:47 Ali?
01:29:55 (Speaking French)
01:29:57 Right, come on.
01:30:06 (Speaking French)
01:30:16 (Speaking French)
01:30:18 Ten seconds. Digger, open those windows.
01:30:40 I want them to get the full benefit of the choir.
01:30:42 Schooley, come and do your stuff.
01:30:45 Three, two, one.
01:30:48 # Glorious, victorious
01:30:52 # One pint of beer between the four of us
01:30:56 # Glory be to God
01:30:58 # There isn't any more of us
01:31:01 # One of us will be here
01:31:04 # I'll be there
01:31:06 # I'll be there
01:31:08 # I'll be there
01:31:12 # One of the others will be here
01:31:14 # I'll be there
01:31:16 # One of the others will be here
01:31:18 # I'll be there
01:31:20 # Glorious, victorious
01:31:23 Sing up!
01:31:24 # One pint of beer between the four of us
01:31:27 # Glory be to God
01:31:29 # There isn't any more of us
01:31:31 # One of us will be here
01:31:33 # I'll be there
01:31:35 # I'll be there
01:31:37 # One pint of beer is on the table
01:31:40 # I'll be there
01:31:43 Now, then, through the trench.
01:31:45 The danger flexer.
01:31:47 Keep your head down, then.
01:31:49 They won't get in the top ten with that little number.
01:32:03 Right!
01:32:05 # And his soldiers marching on
01:32:10 # Glory, glory, hallelujah
01:32:13 That'll teach me to go peeping through keyholes.
01:32:29 Right.
01:32:31 Let's get out of here before they send someone to set the targets up again.
01:32:35 # Glory, glory, hallelujah
01:32:38 Put your hat back!
01:32:53 # Glory, glory, hallelujah
01:32:56 Sing out!
01:32:58 # Glory, glory, hallelujah
01:33:01 # And his soldiers marching on
01:33:04 # Glory, glory, hallelujah
01:33:07 # Glory, glory, hallelujah
01:33:10 # And his soldiers marching on
01:33:13 # Glory, glory, hallelujah
01:33:16 # And his soldiers marching on
01:33:19 # Glory, glory, hallelujah
01:33:22 # And his soldiers marching on
01:33:25 # Glory, glory, hallelujah
01:33:28 # And his soldiers marching on
01:33:31 # Glory, glory, hallelujah
01:33:34 # And his soldiers marching on
01:33:37 # Glory, glory, hallelujah
01:33:40 # And his soldiers marching on
01:33:43 # Glory, glory, hallelujah
01:33:46 # And his soldiers marching on
01:33:49 # Glory, glory, hallelujah
01:33:52 # And his soldiers marching on
01:33:55 # Glory, glory, hallelujah
01:33:59 (Speaking French)
01:34:02 (All) Yes!
01:34:04 # I can share between the four of us
01:34:07 # Glory be to God
01:34:10 # There isn't any more of us
01:34:12 # Cos one of us can drink the gloom in my head
01:34:15 Now, pick it up! Come on!
01:34:17 # I'll be there, I'll be there
01:34:20 # When three's around the table, I'll be there
01:34:23 # While the others... #
01:34:26 Good morning.
01:34:28 Is Mr Lauderdale about?
01:34:33 Um, he's, uh...
01:34:38 He's doing something outside, sir.
01:34:41 I take it you've heard the news.
01:34:45 News, sir? What news?
01:34:49 That we've a new government.
01:34:52 That we've a new government.
01:34:55 The old lot have already surrendered.
01:34:58 We've got through the crisis without being involved.
01:35:01 Damn good show.
01:35:03 Tell Mr Lauderdale I'd like to see him when he's finished, would you?
01:35:07 Oh, go on, Colour Sergeant, go on.
01:35:16 #
01:35:19 Get out! I told you to get out! Get out!
01:35:32 Get out of the city!
01:35:43 God's name.
01:35:45 I...
01:35:52 I think the sergeant major's finished, sir.
01:35:55 - Right, Wilkes. - Sir?
01:36:08 Put your betty on.
01:36:10 You're back to up.
01:36:12 Well, Miss Erickson, thank you very much for all your help.
01:36:15 - Goodbye, Sergeant Major. - Bon voyage.
01:36:18 Goodbye, sir.
01:36:24 Uh, Wilkes.
01:36:26 Remember, some folks sleep light.
01:36:30 Next time, don't sling your boots around, lad.
01:36:33 (HORSE GALLOPING)
01:36:35 (HORSE GALLOPING)
01:36:39 (ALL LAUGHING)
01:36:41 - Morning, Sergeant Major. - Morning, ma'am.
01:36:48 I'm leaving you today.
01:36:50 I trust your fact-finding tour has provided you with a few facts.
01:36:53 Perhaps one or two concerning Lieutenant Boniface.
01:36:55 Colonel Boniface, Sergeant Major.
01:36:57 And if it's any consolation to you,
01:36:59 I disapprove of his methods as much as I do of yours.
01:37:02 - Colonel Boniface? - Yes, Mr. Lauderdale.
01:37:05 I see that you're already dressed for the ceremonial parade this afternoon.
01:37:08 Yes, sir. What's it all about, sir?
01:37:11 Well, it's a bit of a rush job, actually.
01:37:14 It's to celebrate the coming to power of the new government.
01:37:17 Colonel Boniface will be taking the salute.
01:37:20 He's now military governor of the province.
01:37:23 I think, under the circumstances,
01:37:27 it might be better if you handed over the parade to the, um,
01:37:31 color sergeant, hmm?
01:37:33 Very good, sir.
01:37:37 Well, you'll be glad to hear that the new government
01:37:40 is elected to stay in the Commonwealth,
01:37:42 so, of course, we shall be carrying on as before.
01:37:45 Very well, sir.
01:37:47 What's going to happen to Captain Abram, sir?
01:37:49 Oh.
01:37:52 The new president has given him safe conduct out of the country.
01:37:57 That's good, sir.
01:37:59 Yes, but we, um, had to compromise.
01:38:05 General McClellan told me this morning
01:38:08 that Boniface had demanded
01:38:10 that you leave the country within 48 hours.
01:38:13 The general considers the request completely unjustified.
01:38:19 Boniface also wants us to take disciplinary action against you.
01:38:25 (SIGHS)
01:38:27 What does that mean, sir?
01:38:30 Court-martial?
01:38:32 No, no, no, no, no. Of course, he won't come to that.
01:38:35 We've asked for time to consider the matter, naturally,
01:38:39 but the general thinks it would be wise
01:38:42 if you were on the first available plane back to England.
01:38:52 Very well, sir.
01:38:54 I'll get my gear together.
01:38:56 I don't suppose there's any comfort to you, Mr Lauderdale,
01:39:00 but in your place, I'd have done exactly as you did.
01:39:04 Step for step.
01:39:09 (HORSE GALLOPING)
01:39:11 (ENGINE REVVING)
01:39:24 (ENGINE STOPS)
01:39:26 - Muscles. - Sir.
01:39:45 - Ready to go? - Sir.
01:39:47 Get the weapons back to the stall.
01:39:49 - Schooley. - Sir.
01:39:52 Get busy and empty those sandbags.
01:39:54 - There we go. - Job.
01:39:56 Sir.
01:39:58 Check your vehicles and let me have a list of deficiencies.
01:40:01 Yes, sir.
01:40:03 Sir.
01:40:09 See what you can do about the meth silver, will you, please?
01:40:14 And, Ben,
01:40:19 you'll be taking the parade this afternoon.
01:40:22 - Pour me a whisky, will you, please, Corporal Abbo? - Sir.
01:40:32 It'll be all right.
01:40:43 (DOOR OPENS)
01:40:45 (CRASHING)
01:40:56 (CLATTERING)
01:41:08 (CLATTERING)
01:41:10 (HORN HONKING)
01:41:29 (HORN HONKING)
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01:42:59 (dramatic music)
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