The Devils Disciple (1959)

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Genres - Comedy, History, Romance, War | Sub-Genres - Satire | Release Date - Aug 20, 1959 | Run Time - 83 min. | Countries - United States of America | MPAA Rating - TV-PG

The Devil's Disciple is a 1959 British-American film adaptation of the 1897 George Bernard Shaw play The Devil's Disciple. The Anglo-American film was directed by Guy Hamilton, who replaced Alexander Mackendrick, and starred Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier. Mary Grant designed the film's costumes.

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00:05:45We are deeply shocked, but what can we do?
00:05:47We might endanger ourselves.
00:05:49He's right, Mr. Anderson.
00:05:50Perhaps you're right.
00:05:52My friends, I must leave.
00:05:53The blessing of God be with you.
00:05:55Amen.
00:05:56After all, our families have never been very close.
00:06:00Is your mother at home?
00:06:01Yes.
00:06:02Oh, she couldn't come to church.
00:06:04She's not very well.
00:06:06My wife will look after her.
00:06:07Judith, go to Mrs. Dudgeon.
00:06:09Stay with her till I bring her husband home.
00:06:11Tell her that Christy and I have gone to Springtown.
00:06:13We'll be there within the hour.
00:06:15Anthony, you'll take care.
00:06:18Nothing will happen to me or to Timothy Dudgeon.
00:06:20He's an innocent man.
00:06:28Drummers, stand to!
00:06:43General Burgoyne, my name is Parshotter.
00:06:53I'm the minister here.
00:06:55I have always preached loyalty to the crown.
00:06:58Without sufficient eloquence, I gather.
00:06:59That wretched and misguided fellow?
00:07:01Not one of my flock, sir.
00:07:03Not a Springtown man.
00:07:04He's from Webster Bridge.
00:07:05Oh, no, no.
00:07:06Springtown is loyal, sir.
00:07:08None of your Lexington and Concord here.
00:07:10In our church here, we pray for King George.
00:07:13And, of course, his armed forces.
00:07:14Thank you, sir.
00:07:15Most hopeful.
00:07:16Swindon.
00:07:19If you don't mind, minister.
00:07:20Swindon, if you can now give the matter your attention,
00:07:23be good enough to draw up plans for a garrison.
00:07:25It may be necessary to leave troops here when we move on.
00:07:27We've already given them one good example, sir.
00:07:30There'll be no trouble here.
00:07:31I'm glad you take that view.
00:07:33Do I understand, sir, that in your opinion,
00:07:35there will be further breaches of-
00:07:36I do not express my opinion.
00:07:38I never stoop to that habit of profane language,
00:07:40which, unfortunately, coarsens our profession.
00:07:43If I did, sir, perhaps I should be
00:07:44able to express an opinion of a war office
00:07:46that has supplied me with twice as many cavalry
00:07:48men as I have horses, at a weight of cannon
00:07:50so large that half the roads in this country
00:07:52are unsuited to support it.
00:07:55How would you feel, sir, if we had
00:07:57to confront the colonial army in our present condition,
00:07:59before we had made contact with General Howe,
00:08:02with our dragoons on foot, sir, and our artillery
00:08:04not even in sight?
00:08:06Come what may, General, the British soldier
00:08:09will give a good account of himself.
00:08:12And therefore, I suppose, sir, the British officer
00:08:13need not know his business.
00:08:15The British soldier will get him out of all his blunders
00:08:17with a bayonet.
00:08:18In future, sir, I must ask you to be
00:08:20a little less generous with the blood of your men,
00:08:22and a little more generous with your own brain.
00:08:30Swindon, do you at all realize that we
00:08:35have nothing standing between us and destruction
00:08:37but our own bluff and the ignorance
00:08:39of these backwoodsmen?
00:08:41They're men of the same British stock as ourselves.
00:08:44Six to one of us.
00:08:46Six to one, sir.
00:08:47And half our troops are Hessians, Brunswickers,
00:08:50German dragoons, and Indians with scalping knives.
00:08:54Suppose the colonists find a leader.
00:08:57What shall we do then?
00:09:00Eh?
00:09:02Our duty, sir, I presume.
00:09:04May I ask, are you writing a melodrama, Major Swindon?
00:09:07No, sir.
00:09:08What a pity.
00:09:10What a pity.
00:09:11Now, come on, make way for the Germans.
00:09:12Get back there.
00:09:13Go on, back.
00:09:22Get them out of there.
00:09:27Get their car off the bridge.
00:09:29Come on.
00:09:30Here.
00:09:31Here.
00:09:32Come on.
00:09:37Come on.
00:09:57Take the reins, Christy.
00:10:07They killed Father too, before we even got here.
00:10:14Stay here, Christy.
00:10:16Hey, hey.
00:10:17Hey!
00:10:18Hey!
00:10:19Hey!
00:10:20Hey!
00:10:24Hey!
00:10:25Hey!
00:10:25Hey!
00:10:26Hey!
00:10:27Hey!
00:10:28Hey!
00:10:28Hey!
00:10:29Hey!
00:10:30Hey!
00:10:31Hey!
00:10:32Hey!
00:10:33Hey!
00:10:34Hey!
00:10:35Hey!
00:10:36Where's the officer in charge here?
00:10:43Go on, now.
00:10:45Move away from here.
00:10:46It's all over.
00:10:47I want the officer.
00:10:48Go about your business.
00:10:49Officer.
00:10:50Sir.
00:10:51Right.
00:10:52Carry on.
00:10:53That man was from my parish.
00:10:54I'm his minister.
00:10:55Really?
00:10:56There's been a gross injustice.
00:10:57He was innocent.
00:10:58He was found guilty.
00:10:59I shall see that he's cleared.
00:11:00In the meantime I clear you.
00:11:01Mr. Hawkins.
00:11:02What is it?
00:11:03It's that minister of yours from Webster Bridge.
00:11:04He's stirring up trouble.
00:11:05Damn that man.
00:11:06Out of the question.
00:11:07The body remains.
00:11:08I can't believe you mean that.
00:11:12It's that minister of yours from Webster Bridge.
00:11:14He's stirring up trouble.
00:11:16Damn that man.
00:11:17Out of the question. The body remains.
00:11:19I can't believe you mean that.
00:11:30Anderson!
00:11:32Don't be a fool!
00:11:38Sergeant at Arms! Arrest that man!
00:11:42You can't leave his body there.
00:11:43Anderson!
00:11:44Indeed.
00:11:45Lieutenant, this man doesn't understand military necessity.
00:11:48He's a minister. A minister, a man of peace.
00:11:51Is he?
00:11:52Parshada, you'll vouch for him too, I'm sure.
00:11:55Um, yes.
00:11:56He's from Webster Bridge. I live near there.
00:11:58He's a small village. We don't see much of the world.
00:12:01Timothy Dudgeon.
00:12:02The church must support any measures designed to save human life.
00:12:07Don't you agree, Mr. Parshada?
00:12:08Um, yes.
00:12:09You leave a man's body hanging here?
00:12:11As a warning to others.
00:12:13Precisely.
00:12:14You must think before you do anything to endanger the lives of innocent men and women.
00:12:19My flock, Mr. Anderson.
00:12:20I'm sure that we can vouch for the pastor, Lieutenant.
00:12:23Very well. Get back to your posts.
00:12:26Thank you, sir.
00:12:29Thank you, Mr. Hawkins.
00:12:31There's nothing more to be said, my friends.
00:12:33Let us all go about our business.
00:12:37Halt! Halt! Stop him! Stop him!
00:12:39Halt! Halt!
00:12:43Come on! Get after him!
00:12:44Go on! Stop him!
00:13:07Home at last.
00:13:09I thought you'd never get back from Springtown.
00:13:11And Mrs. Dudgeon hardly spoke all that time.
00:13:14It's been a long day.
00:13:23You must be tired.
00:13:26Come straight to bed.
00:13:36Good night.
00:14:06Good night.
00:14:36Good night.
00:14:59Who's there?
00:15:06Who's there?
00:15:36Who's there?
00:15:58Good evening, minister.
00:16:00Allow me to present myself.
00:16:02Richard Dudgeon.
00:16:03You remember me.
00:16:05I thought the good people of Webster Bridge
00:16:07found it more convenient to forget me, huh?
00:16:09Oh, my father, you know quite well, I believe.
00:16:12I found him in Springtown at a loose end.
00:16:15In fact, he...
00:16:17I was there.
00:16:19So you were.
00:16:20With a musket in your hand.
00:16:22But then you remembered your Christian duty, huh?
00:16:26Poor father.
00:16:30The Redcoats did him too much credit.
00:16:31He hadn't the stomach for a rebel either.
00:16:33If you cared so little for your father,
00:16:35why did you risk your life for his body?
00:16:37Well, to annoy the English.
00:16:38What other reason?
00:16:39If you'd been caught, they'd have hanged you too.
00:16:41Do you think I'd be any great loss, minister?
00:16:44I think a man's life is worth saving whoever it belongs to.
00:16:49Will you come inside?
00:16:50We can give you some supper.
00:16:53No.
00:16:55You know, I've never met a minister yet
00:16:56who doesn't ask you to supper and treat you to a sermon.
00:17:04Bury him quickly.
00:17:06Before the memory of his death makes you forget
00:17:08you're a man of peace.
00:17:11Your father shall have a Christian burial, Mr. Dutton.
00:17:15As you intended.
00:17:17Tom, like a parson,
00:17:18always so eager to believe the best of his fellow man.
00:17:21Save your breath, pastor.
00:17:23He can't convert me.
00:17:25I was brought up a good psalm-singing little churchgoer.
00:17:28But I saw that the world cringed at the Almighty
00:17:30only through fear.
00:17:32Then I made the devil's acquaintance.
00:17:35Yeah, I knew that he was my natural master,
00:17:37captain and friend.
00:17:38I prayed secretly to him and he comforted me.
00:17:40I promised him my soul and swore an oath
00:17:42that I would stand up for him in this world
00:17:44and stand by him in the next.
00:17:52That promise and that oath made a man of me.
00:17:54Hyah!
00:17:55Hyah!
00:17:56That promise and that oath made a man of me.
00:17:58Hyah!
00:17:59Hyah!
00:18:23Tony?
00:18:26Tony?
00:18:34Tony, I saw someone, did you?
00:18:38Tony, who was it?
00:18:40Richard Dutton.
00:18:42He...
00:18:45He whips the bridge?
00:18:49What did he want?
00:18:53He brought back his father's body.
00:18:56You mean from the...
00:18:58Gallows?
00:19:02But how?
00:19:04Go to bed, Judith.
00:19:06I'll tell you all about it in the morning.
00:19:13But they said he couldn't be taken.
00:19:17He didn't ask.
00:19:19There's no need to reproach yourself.
00:19:23You did everything you could for Mr. Dutton.
00:19:26Judith...
00:19:27After all, if people break the law of the country...
00:19:30Judith, we don't seem to understand here
00:19:32what this fighting means.
00:19:35We don't...
00:19:36No, I don't expect so.
00:19:38Let's hope we never will.
00:19:43I'm sorry.
00:19:44Let's hope we never will.
00:20:15You were so long out there.
00:20:21Did you talk to him?
00:20:27What did he say?
00:20:30Nothing, Judith.
00:20:32Nothing you'd want to hear.
00:20:34Nor I to remember.
00:20:38And now we devote his body to the ground.
00:20:45Amen.
00:20:46Amen.
00:21:00Amen.
00:21:02This is the last will and testament of me,
00:21:04Timothy Dutton.
00:21:06And I hereby revoke all former wills made by me
00:21:10and...
00:21:12Who asked you here?
00:21:13Good morning, Malick.
00:21:14Keeping up appearances as usual?
00:21:15That's right.
00:21:16That's right.
00:21:17Leave my house.
00:21:19How do you know it's your house till the will is read?
00:21:22My dear relatives.
00:21:24Sit down, sit down.
00:21:26So, we're all here for the feast.
00:21:28Even the little serpent girl.
00:21:30Hello, Essie.
00:21:32Uncle William!
00:21:34I haven't seen you since you gave up drinking.
00:21:38Uncle Titus, you old horse thief.
00:21:40The minister?
00:21:41Say, I should have accepted your invitation to supper the other night.
00:21:44I understand your wife has a most ungodly allowance of good looks.
00:21:48You're in the presence of my wife, sir.
00:21:52Yes, sir, and madam.
00:21:54She deserves a reputation.
00:21:56And I'm sorry to see by your expression that you're a good woman.
00:21:59All the same, pastor, I respect you more than I did before.
00:22:03Be ashamed of yourself, sir.
00:22:05Oh, I am, I am, but proud of my relatives.
00:22:07Proceed, Mr. Hawkins, proceed.
00:22:10And declare, this is my real will according to my own wish and affection.
00:22:16For what we are about to receive may the Lord make us truly thankful.
00:22:21I give and bequeath to my youngest son, Christopher,
00:22:2450 pounds to be paid him on the day of his marriage to Sarah Wilkins,
00:22:29if she will have him.
00:22:31How if she won't have him?
00:22:33She will if I have 50 pounds.
00:22:34Very good, brother. Proceed, Mr. Hawkins.
00:22:38I give and bequeath my house at Webster Bridge
00:22:42and all the rest of my property, soever,
00:22:45to my eldest son and heir, Richard Dutton.
00:22:51The fatted calf, minister.
00:22:53The fatted calf.
00:22:55Finally, I give and bequeath my soul, and if I make his hands
00:22:58humbly asking forgiveness for all my sins,
00:23:00and hoping I have not done wrong in the perplexity of my last hour
00:23:04in this strange place.
00:23:06Amen.
00:23:08Amen.
00:23:10My mother does not say amen.
00:23:27He had no choice.
00:23:29He had nothing of his own.
00:23:31His money was the money I brought him as my marriage portion,
00:23:34and this is my reward.
00:23:36Mrs. Dutton, I...
00:23:38Don't let him rob me.
00:23:48Mr. Hawkins, is that true?
00:23:50Do you have a rightful legal will
00:23:52leaving everything to Mrs. Dutton?
00:23:54There is such a will.
00:23:56And the new one, is that a...
00:23:58Is that a proper will?
00:24:00The courts will sustain it against the other.
00:24:03The courts will sustain the claim of any man,
00:24:06and that man the eldest son, against any woman if they can.
00:24:09Good day to you.
00:24:23That's right, eat, drink, be merry.
00:24:26Maybe your last chance.
00:24:29I'll pass the soldiers within six miles on my way here.
00:24:32What are we to fear from there, sir?
00:24:34We're all rebels.
00:24:36And you know it.
00:24:38Yes, you are.
00:24:40You haven't damned King George as I have,
00:24:42and none of you has the courage to fight.
00:24:44But you're all waiting for the outcome
00:24:46before paying your taxes.
00:24:48That's treason enough for His Majesty.
00:24:50Treason!
00:24:56Mark my words, Parson.
00:24:58It won't be long before Major Swindon's gallows for rebels
00:25:01are up on our own village green.
00:25:04The wool's right in your own fold.
00:25:07What will the good shepherd do then, huh?
00:25:17Mother, where are you going?
00:25:19Your mother has decided she doesn't want to stay here.
00:25:22Mother.
00:25:26My curse on you.
00:25:38You're going to leave that girl there
00:25:40to live with him in the house?
00:25:42Bessie will come to no harm.
00:25:52Bessie?
00:25:57Bessie?
00:26:22Bessie?
00:26:29Have you come back for something?
00:26:31The child isn't past saving, even if you are.
00:26:35Bessie?
00:26:40Don't be afraid, Bessie.
00:26:42Mrs. Anderson wants to rescue you
00:26:44from the house of the devil.
00:26:51Bessie?
00:26:57She's had enough of self-righteousness
00:26:59like all little animals.
00:27:01She knows what she can stomach.
00:27:03Was there anything else, Mrs. Anderson?
00:27:07I wish to go.
00:27:10I shan't stop you.
00:27:22You can't get it out of my mind.
00:27:24He insulted you, he insulted me,
00:27:26he insulted his mother.
00:27:28Try not to upset yourself, my dear.
00:27:30I know it's wrong to hate anybody, but...
00:27:32It's worse to be indifferent.
00:27:35The worst sin of all is not to care about other people.
00:27:38I don't like Richard.
00:27:41I don't like what he says or the way he behaves.
00:27:44I don't like him.
00:27:46I don't like him.
00:27:48I don't like him.
00:27:49I don't like what he says or the way he behaves.
00:27:52There's something about him that makes me respect him
00:27:54in spite of myself.
00:27:56In spite of himself, too.
00:27:59I don't think he'd like that.
00:28:04Judith.
00:28:07You're not so wicked as you think, I'm sure,
00:28:09but they say that hate is very close to love.
00:28:12Perhaps you're even fonder of Richard than you are of me
00:28:14if you only knew it.
00:28:16Don't say that!
00:28:17All right, my dear.
00:28:19He's a bad man and you hate him as he deserves.
00:28:21Shall we have our tea?
00:28:42What's the matter, Judith?
00:28:44You always think the best of everyone.
00:28:47I'm going to change now.
00:29:18Come on.
00:29:31Sergeant, nail the proclamation to the church door.
00:29:44Hey, you!
00:29:46Come here!
00:29:50Hold him.
00:30:08You better tell the parson to read that.
00:30:10It's all right.
00:30:12Martial law.
00:30:13What's the matter with you?
00:30:15The army will be in by nightfall.
00:30:17But, sir...
00:30:30Sir, that's the man we hung in Spintown.
00:30:32His body's buried here.
00:30:34All right, Sergeant. Carry on.
00:30:36I'll report this to Major Swindon.
00:30:44What is it, Essie?
00:30:46They saw the grave.
00:30:48Mr. Richard stole the body.
00:30:50The hanger!
00:30:52Is he at the farm?
00:30:54I don't know where he is.
00:30:56I'll find him. You go home.
00:30:58If the soldiers come,
00:31:00tell them that Richard is gone, you understand?
00:31:02Left the village altogether.
00:31:13Go home, Essie.
00:31:22It wasn't very far from Springtown to Webster Bridge.
00:31:27General Beauboin and his army
00:31:29had only to pass through the forest.
00:31:31Like all civilized, disciplined,
00:31:34and well-trained troops, however,
00:31:36their military thinking was no match
00:31:38for that of an uncivilized,
00:31:39undisciplined, and undrilled enemy.
00:31:42And it hadn't occurred to them
00:31:44that the axe on occasion
00:31:46could be mightier than the sword.
00:31:50What the devil are you doing idling there?
00:31:52We've got to get through here by tonight.
00:31:54Get these men to work.
00:31:56Yes, sir.
00:32:00Get those carts out of the way.
00:32:02Sergeant, get those men on their feet.
00:32:05Swindon!
00:32:10I hope I didn't deafen you, my dear.
00:32:15Sir?
00:32:17Major Swindon, are you proficient at all in arithmetic?
00:32:20Arithmetic, sir?
00:32:22If you are, sir, you will be as aware as I am
00:32:24that this is the fourth obstruction in as many miles.
00:32:26At this rate, we shall be lucky to reach Albany by Christmas.
00:32:28You and your men, sir,
00:32:30are charged with protection of the column,
00:32:32picked troops against a few colonial ruffians,
00:32:34and what is the outcome?
00:32:36Trees felled in our path every night,
00:32:37snipers in the daytime.
00:32:46Both together now, apparently.
00:32:48Get the Indians!
00:32:50Come on, quick, quick!
00:32:52Move them up, move them up!
00:32:56The Indians will get him, sir.
00:32:58Will they?
00:33:00Will they indeed?
00:33:02From past observation, sir,
00:33:04they appear to believe that any scalp is welcome,
00:33:05whether man, woman, or child.
00:33:07Unfortunately, they seem to pick more often
00:33:09on those of His Majesty's friends than his enemies,
00:33:11and the snipers continue to flourish.
00:33:13What's that?
00:33:15The patrol from Webster Bridge, sir.
00:33:17At last.
00:33:19Find out how many trees we shall have to contend with
00:33:21between here and there.
00:33:23I shall wait at Webster Bridge for my artillery.
00:33:25I presume General Phillips can find horses enough
00:33:27in Springtown even for his requirements
00:33:29within a week.
00:33:31What soup is this?
00:33:33Rattlesnake, sir.
00:33:35Delicious.
00:33:37Well, Swindon, some further disaster, I take it?
00:33:39What is it now?
00:33:41Wolves?
00:33:43It's rebellion, sir.
00:33:45You don't say, sir.
00:33:47The man Dutton has been buried in Webster Bridge,
00:33:49taken from Springtown, as you know, sir,
00:33:51and buried there, against my orders.
00:33:53Deplorable.
00:33:55Your orders apart, however,
00:33:57what chances there are of our reaching this place
00:33:59before sundown, and what of the road?
00:34:01Is it clear?
00:34:03Perfectly clear, sir.
00:34:05You heard that, I think.
00:34:07A sound that has kept me awake every night
00:34:09since we left Canada.
00:34:11They're felling them in the daytime now, Swindon.
00:34:13In the daytime.
00:34:15With your permission, sir, I shall make an example
00:34:17at Webster Bridge.
00:34:19Do what you please in Webster Bridge, man,
00:34:21but get us there.
00:34:23Get us there.
00:34:31Storekeeper!
00:34:33Yes?
00:34:35You'll be lucky if you keep anything.
00:34:37Reposition order. Salt, tea, sugar, tobacco, grain.
00:34:39Where's your storeroom?
00:34:41In the back there.
00:34:43What about payment?
00:34:45Just see the paymaster and he'll pay you.
00:34:50We'll have nothing left.
00:34:53They can't do this to us, can they?
00:34:55Mr. Hawkins.
00:34:57It's all as legal as you please.
00:34:59Eh, Mr. Hawkins?
00:35:02Just ask the paymaster and he'll pay you.
00:35:03Nice, fresh paper money.
00:35:05Legal tender, isn't that so, Mr. Hawkins?
00:35:07Of course, you can't buy anything with it
00:35:09and you can't eat it or smoke it or make tea with it,
00:35:11but you have no legal complaint, just the same.
00:35:14Isn't that so, Mr. Hawkins?
00:35:19One case of best imported Indian tea.
00:35:22No matter what they take over,
00:35:24your crops, your livestock, your liquor,
00:35:26even your wives,
00:35:28it's all in the name of the law.
00:35:30There's only one way to change laws of that sort.
00:35:33Get rid of the people who make them.
00:35:36And that's illegal, isn't it, Mr. Hawkins?
00:35:39Mr. Hawkins has no answer,
00:35:41but some of our countrymen think they've found one.
00:35:45There's been some fighting,
00:35:47or so they tell me,
00:35:49and, ah, that's no game for pious men,
00:35:51good citizens, law-abiding lawyers,
00:35:53nothing like that.
00:35:55And I'm not one of them.
00:35:56Pious men, good citizens, law-abiding lawyers?
00:35:58Nah.
00:36:00As you hold such strong views,
00:36:02why don't you stop talking and do something?
00:36:04Me?
00:36:06I've no respect for any sort of law,
00:36:08so what do I care what kind's enforced?
00:36:27Reminds you of home, doesn't it?
00:36:30Ah, you've come a long ways, gentlemen.
00:36:33A long ways to go back.
00:36:36Say, Corporal,
00:36:38how long away from home?
00:36:40One year and four months.
00:36:42That's much again at the very least.
00:36:44It's a long way to go back.
00:36:46It's a long way to go back.
00:36:48It's a long way to go back.
00:36:50It's a long way to go back.
00:36:52It's a long way to go back.
00:36:54It's a long way to go back.
00:36:56At the very least,
00:36:58your wife will have lost her looks.
00:37:00Or if not, he'll have lost his wife.
00:37:05Oh now, Corporal, don't take me seriously.
00:37:07If you did, he'd be insulting his own wife.
00:37:09Oh, a British soldier's wife knows her duty, I'm sure.
00:37:13Oh, I'm sure.
00:37:22Ah, now here's a man you should speak to.
00:37:24He wears a uniform, too, in his own way.
00:37:27And he has a wife pretty enough to pose him some problems.
00:37:30Eh, Minister?
00:37:32By the way, Mr. Dutchard, I have a message for you.
00:37:34Good evening, Minister.
00:37:36Hello, Paddy.
00:37:38What message?
00:37:40For Missy.
00:37:42Well, deliver it.
00:37:44Oh, I've nothing to hide from my friends here.
00:37:46She wants you.
00:37:48Thank you. I shall be home.
00:37:50I advise you to come now.
00:37:52Minister, you're not in your pulpit here.
00:37:54We had a conversation once, Mr. Dutchard.
00:37:56When I invited you into supper.
00:37:58The matter that brought us together at that time has arisen again.
00:38:03It has?
00:38:06I thought that was buried and done with.
00:38:09It might be too late for supper this time.
00:38:12Will you come?
00:38:14To wife at home?
00:38:16Yes.
00:38:18How can I refuse?
00:38:20Gentlemen, I wish you the fortunes of war.
00:38:22Death or glory.
00:38:25Take my advice, write to her.
00:38:27Even a letter is something to take to bed.
00:38:28Tony, I began to wonder...
00:38:54He's in danger.
00:38:56Well, he's wrong.
00:38:58He's the one who's in danger.
00:39:00He's only trying to frighten you.
00:39:02Is tea ready?
00:39:04Take your wet coat off and hang it by the fire to dry.
00:39:06My wife will excuse your shirt sleeves.
00:39:11The devil's disciple under the parson's roofs.
00:39:15Who'd think of looking for him here?
00:39:18A hot cup of tea to keep out the cold, Mr. Dutchard.
00:39:20Sit down.
00:39:24I observe that Mrs. Anderson is not quite as pressing.
00:39:26You're welcome for my husband's sake.
00:39:28I know I'm not welcome for my own.
00:39:33I don't think I'll break bread here, minister.
00:39:35There's something in you that I respect.
00:39:38And that makes me desire to have you as my enemy.
00:39:41I understand you very well.
00:39:43On those terms, I'll accept any man's enmity.
00:39:46Please sit down.
00:39:48Oh, Mr. Anderson.
00:39:53Well, what are you doing here?
00:39:55Christy, Mrs. Anderson doesn't want the whole family
00:39:57to tea at once.
00:39:59Mother's very ill.
00:40:02She wants to see Richard.
00:40:04No.
00:40:06She wants to see the minister.
00:40:08Yeah.
00:40:10You go on ahead.
00:40:12I'll be right back.
00:40:13Judith.
00:40:15Stop running.
00:40:20Give Mr. Dutchard his tea.
00:40:22I'll have mine when we come back.
00:40:24Tony must hide.
00:40:26The soldier saw the grave.
00:40:28They'll be after him.
00:40:30You must keep him here.
00:40:32Tony.
00:40:34I know I can depend on you.
00:40:36But...
00:40:38But...
00:40:56Mrs. Anderson, I'm perfectly aware
00:40:58of your feelings towards me.
00:41:00I won't intrude on you.
00:41:02No, don't go.
00:41:04Please don't go.
00:41:06I want you to stay.
00:41:08But it's not because I like you.
00:41:10I see.
00:41:12Rather, you did go to mistake me about that.
00:41:14I hate you and disapprove of you.
00:41:16And my husband knows it.
00:41:18But if you're not here when he comes back,
00:41:20he'll think I disobeyed him and drove you away.
00:41:23Whereas, of course, you've been so kind
00:41:25and considerate that I...
00:41:27I really want to go out of mere contrariness.
00:41:30Well, then...
00:41:32Shall we go to tea like a quiet, respectable couple
00:41:33and wait for your husband's return?
00:41:44Ah, how much I've missed, haven't I?
00:41:47The joys of domesticity.
00:41:49You know, I expect if a stranger came in now,
00:41:51he'd take us for man and wife.
00:41:53If you mean you're more my age than he is, I...
00:41:56Oh, I...
00:41:58I see there's another side to domestic bliss.
00:42:00I'd rather be married to someone
00:42:01that everyone respects than...
00:42:03Than the devil's disciple, and you're right,
00:42:05but then your love helps him to be a good man
00:42:07just as your hate helps me to be a bad one.
00:42:09My husband has been very good to you.
00:42:11Can't you forgive him
00:42:13for being so much better than you are?
00:42:15How dare you belittle him
00:42:17by putting yourself in his place?
00:42:19Did I?
00:42:21Yes, you did. You said that we could...
00:42:23We could...
00:42:26Don't do that.
00:42:27Don't do that.
00:42:34Here.
00:42:35Here.
00:42:57Tea?
00:42:59Please.
00:43:02Do you take sugar?
00:43:03No, but plenty of milk.
00:43:15Toast?
00:43:16Why do you laugh?
00:43:18Oh, I think you're afraid
00:43:20that even tea and toast with a man of my reputation
00:43:22might lead you astray.
00:43:25That's the worst of conducting one's life
00:43:27on the very highest principles.
00:43:29One false step,
00:43:31and you have such a long way to go.
00:43:33I don't care.
00:43:35I don't care.
00:43:37I don't care.
00:43:39I don't care.
00:43:41I don't care.
00:43:43I don't care.
00:43:44You have such a long ways to fall.
00:43:46Are you afraid of heights, Mrs. Anderson?
00:43:48Do they keep tempting you
00:43:50to throw yourself over the precipice?
00:43:53I think you find the view down below
00:43:55almost irresistible.
00:43:57So you take yourself and your principles
00:43:59higher and higher in the hopes of getting away from it.
00:44:01But of course,
00:44:03the higher you go,
00:44:05the more irresistible it becomes.
00:44:07Doesn't it?
00:44:09Huh?
00:44:14You see, the toast is harder to swallow
00:44:16than the truth.
00:44:18Oh, leave me alone.
00:44:20Oh, leave me alone.
00:44:22Can't you ever do one kind thing for someone?
00:44:24All you do is talk.
00:44:35Sorry to disturb you, ma'am.
00:44:37Duty.
00:44:39Anthony Anderson,
00:44:41I arrest you in King George's name
00:44:42as a rebel.
00:44:44But he's not...
00:44:46Come on, Parson.
00:44:48Put your coat on and come along.
00:45:00But that's not your...
00:45:02Sergeant,
00:45:04forgive me asking,
00:45:06what act of rebellion
00:45:08exactly have I committed?
00:45:10That's not for me to say, sir.
00:45:12But we don't arrest him unless we're gonna hang him.
00:45:22You can't do this.
00:45:25Not even one good thing for someone?
00:45:28Sergeant,
00:45:30did you ever arrest a man of my cloth before?
00:45:32Well, no, sir.
00:45:34At least only an army chaplain.
00:45:38Fall in.
00:45:40One gentleman to another, sir.
00:45:42Wouldn't you like a word with your missus before you go?
00:45:45It's your last chance.
00:45:47Oh, my love,
00:45:49this gallant gentleman
00:45:51has been kind enough
00:45:53to allow us a moment of leave-taking.
00:45:57Get your husband safely out of harm's way.
00:45:59You understand?
00:46:02Tell him he can't save me.
00:46:04They would hang him
00:46:06and they wouldn't spare me.
00:46:08And tell him that from now on
00:46:10he'd better give the devil his due.
00:46:15I'm sure the sergeant won't believe
00:46:17you love me like a wife,
00:46:19unless you give me one kiss before I go.
00:46:23I can't.
00:46:31Sergeant, quickly.
00:46:33March!
00:46:35March!
00:46:53Mr. Dutton.
00:46:55Mrs. Dutton's critical, very critical.
00:46:57Where's my husband?
00:46:59Mrs. Anderson,
00:47:01what's happened?
00:47:02The scoundrel.
00:47:04He should be horsewhipped.
00:47:06The minister's wife.
00:47:08What did he do?
00:47:10My husband, I must see my husband.
00:47:12Yes, yes, directly.
00:47:14Judith, listen.
00:47:16What's happened to you?
00:47:18You shouldn't have left him in the house with her.
00:47:20He's not to be trusted.
00:47:23Richard?
00:47:26Judith.
00:47:28Judith, I...
00:47:30Judith,
00:47:32no, no, you don't understand.
00:47:34He did nothing.
00:47:36He's been arrested.
00:47:38Arrested?
00:47:40What are we going to do?
00:47:43Where have they taken him?
00:47:45No, no, you mustn't go, you mustn't go.
00:47:47Mrs. Anderson.
00:47:49He said you couldn't save him.
00:47:51You were to get out of harm's way.
00:47:53He said they'd hang him and not spare you,
00:47:55but there must be some other way.
00:47:57Look at Judith.
00:47:59A man with that much good in him,
00:48:00he'll arrest you the moment you give your name.
00:48:02Nonsense, my dear.
00:48:04It's not, it's not, it's God's truth.
00:48:06It was for you the soldiers came.
00:48:11For me?
00:48:13They gave your name.
00:48:15We were there together.
00:48:17The soldiers thought he and I were...
00:48:19He put on your coat.
00:48:21He went with them to save you.
00:48:24Well, isn't there something we can do?
00:48:26Get the people of the village together?
00:48:28Against the army?
00:48:30No, Mr. Anderson, leave well alone.
00:48:32William!
00:48:34Yes, yes, my dear.
00:48:38You can't help him, Minister, but you're free.
00:48:41Tony, you can't leave Richard now.
00:48:43You can lie low somewhere until it's safe to come back,
00:48:45somewhere right clear of the village.
00:48:47Tony!
00:48:49Christy, help bring it out, the buggy.
00:48:51We'll leave yours here.
00:48:53Confound Richard.
00:48:56Tony.
00:48:59Tony, he's trying to save your life.
00:49:02Yes, he's put upon me a debt I can never repay.
00:49:04What does he think I can do?
00:49:06What does he expect of me?
00:49:08I don't know, but you must do something.
00:49:10You must save him.
00:49:12Stop howling, girl.
00:49:16Judith.
00:49:18Judith, listen to me.
00:49:19If you can get word to him
00:49:21by pretending to be his wife, do it.
00:49:23The longer he holds his tongue,
00:49:25the more stardom he'll give me.
00:49:32Tony, what are you going to do?
00:49:34Judith, go home.
00:49:39Where's he gone?
00:49:45He's not gone to the village.
00:49:46He's run away.
00:49:48He's not such a fool as I thought.
00:50:08Mr. Hawkins.
00:50:16Mr. Hawkins.
00:50:18Mr. Hawkins.
00:50:20Come inside.
00:50:22Mr. Hawkins, they've arrested Richard Dudgeon.
00:50:24You must go to the military.
00:50:26God, is that all you want?
00:50:28Get the horse ready.
00:50:30Why didn't the minister talk?
00:50:32He won't, he's no friend of the records.
00:50:34Mr. Hawkins, tell them I'll give myself up
00:50:36if they release him.
00:50:38I'm sorry, but I can't help you.
00:50:40It's a matter of life and death.
00:50:42I can't help you.
00:50:43If they release him.
00:50:45I'm sorry, but I can't help you.
00:50:47You better go yourself.
00:50:49Get the stuff down and hurry.
00:50:52You don't understand.
00:50:54They thought he was me.
00:50:56If I go, they'll hang the both of us.
00:50:58But if you go to them...
00:51:00I haven't time now, if you'll forgive me.
00:51:02You haven't time to save a man's life?
00:51:04Hawkins, more than one good man
00:51:06will die in the next 24 hours.
00:51:08John, you go over to Nevelson
00:51:10and bring over their contingent.
00:51:11You go to Collins Hill
00:51:13and we rendezvous with the river.
00:51:20You're with the rebels.
00:51:22But before, in springtime...
00:51:24That wasn't the moment, but things are very different now.
00:51:26Hawkins, wait.
00:51:28I'm fighting a war,
00:51:30and I can't jeopardize its success
00:51:32for the sake of your troubles or Richard Dudgeon.
00:51:38Mr. Hawkins.
00:51:39For God's sake,
00:51:41go back to your church minister and pray.
00:52:10Now, don't you fret, Mum.
00:52:12He slept like a child
00:52:14and has made a very good breakfast.
00:52:16Is there a good spirit?
00:52:18Tip-top.
00:52:20The chaplain looked in to see him last night
00:52:22and he was in a good mood.
00:52:24He said,
00:52:26he'd like to see you.
00:52:28He said,
00:52:30he'd like to see you.
00:52:32He said,
00:52:34he'd like to see you.
00:52:36He said,
00:52:37he'd like to see you.
00:52:39The chaplain looked in to see him last night
00:52:41and he won 17 shillings off him at backgammon.
00:52:43Spent it among us,
00:52:45like the gentleman he is.
00:52:47Well, my little wife.
00:52:51Sergeant, how long will you allow
00:52:53a broken-hearted husband for leave-taking?
00:52:55As long as we can, sir.
00:52:57We shan't disturb you until the court sits.
00:52:59And General Burgoyne's not come down yet, sir.
00:53:01Gentlemanly Johnny, we call him, Mum.
00:53:03He won't have done fine in fort
00:53:05with everything till it's gone half-past.
00:53:07Is your husband safe?
00:53:09Is he clear of the village?
00:53:11Well, that's good.
00:53:13He's no longer my husband.
00:53:15He's run away.
00:53:17Well, why not?
00:53:19They don't even hang his boots.
00:53:21Why did you let them take you last night?
00:53:23To find my life, Mrs. Anderson, I don't know.
00:53:25I've been asking myself that question ever since.
00:53:28It was for my sake, wasn't it?
00:53:32Well, you had a hand in it.
00:53:34It...
00:53:35Well, it must have been a little for your sake.
00:53:37I can't let you.
00:53:39I'm going to tell them.
00:53:41Mrs. Anderson...
00:53:43Well, they'll never kill you
00:53:45when they know how heroically you've acted.
00:53:47But if I don't go through with it,
00:53:49where will the heroism be?
00:53:51Simply a trick, then.
00:53:53They'll hang me anyway.
00:53:55Serve me right, too.
00:53:57Do you realize you're going to kill yourself?
00:53:59You're the only man I have any right to kill.
00:54:01Oh, bless you.
00:54:03Nobody cares for me.
00:54:05My mother's last words to me was a curse,
00:54:07and my other relatives won't grieve much in my account.
00:54:09Oh, yes, he will cry for a day or two,
00:54:11but I've provided for her.
00:54:13I made my own will last night.
00:54:15That'll give him a few surprises.
00:54:18And I?
00:54:20You?
00:54:22Am I not to care at all?
00:54:24Oh, I'll give you credit
00:54:26for liking me a little more than you did,
00:54:27but my death won't break your heart.
00:54:29What can I do to show you how wrong you are?
00:54:32Save yourself for my sake.
00:54:35I'll go with you to the end of the world.
00:54:44Judith.
00:54:46Yes?
00:54:49Judith, listen to me.
00:54:51If I said to please you
00:54:53that I did what I did ever so little for your sake,
00:54:55I lied.
00:54:57Those men always lie to women.
00:54:59I've seen even the most worthless of men
00:55:01rise to some sort of goodness when they were in love.
00:55:05That's taught me to set very little store
00:55:07by the goodness that only comes out red hot.
00:55:11What I did last night, I did in cold blood,
00:55:14not caring half as much for your husband
00:55:16or for you as I did for myself.
00:55:21I had no motive,
00:55:23no interest.
00:55:25No interest.
00:55:29All I can say is that when it came to the point
00:55:31whether I would put another man's neck into the noose,
00:55:34I couldn't do it.
00:55:37I was brought up short by the law of my own nature
00:55:39and I couldn't go against it,
00:55:41gallows or no gallows.
00:55:44I would have done the same thing
00:55:46for any other man in the place
00:55:48or any other man's wife.
00:55:50Do you understand that?
00:55:53Do you really think I believe it?
00:55:58Time's up, I'm afraid.
00:56:00Court's about to sit.
00:56:02Thank you, Judge.
00:56:06Halt!
00:56:08Left!
00:56:10Stop!
00:56:15Good morning, Judge.
00:56:17Good morning, Judge.
00:56:19Sorry to disturb you, I'm sure.
00:56:21Very good of you to spare us a few moments.
00:56:23Will you preside, sir?
00:56:25No, sir, I feel my own deficiency
00:56:27is too keenly to presume so far.
00:56:29If you will kindly allow me,
00:56:31I will sit at the foot of the table.
00:56:37Halt!
00:56:39Right turn!
00:56:41Escort take position!
00:56:43Sergeant.
00:56:49Who is that woman?
00:56:51Prisoner's wife, sir.
00:56:53She asked to be allowed to be present
00:56:55and I thought that...
00:56:57You thought it would be a pleasure for her,
00:56:59quite so, quite so.
00:57:01Give the lady a chair and make her thoroughly comfortable.
00:57:03Your name, sir?
00:57:05You don't mean to say
00:57:07you brought me here without knowing who I am?
00:57:09As a matter of form, sir,
00:57:10give your name.
00:57:12As a matter of form, then,
00:57:14my name is Anthony Anderson,
00:57:16the Presbyterian minister of this parish.
00:57:18Presbyterian? Indeed.
00:57:20Say, Mr. Anderson,
00:57:22what do you gentlemen believe in?
00:57:24I shall be glad to explain if time has allowed me,
00:57:26but I can't undertake to complete your conversion
00:57:28in less than a fortnight.
00:57:30We are not here to discuss your views.
00:57:32I stand reviewed.
00:57:34Oh, not you, sir.
00:57:36I'm afraid I'll mention it.
00:57:38Any political views, Mr. Anderson?
00:57:40That's what we're here to find out.
00:57:42Do you mean to deny that you are a rebel?
00:57:44I am an American.
00:57:46What am I expected to think of that speech, Mr. Anderson?
00:57:49I never expect a soldier to think.
00:57:53I advise you not to be insolent, prisoner.
00:57:56You can't help yourself, gentlemen,
00:57:58when you make up your mind to hang a man.
00:58:00You put yourself at a disadvantage with him.
00:58:02Now, why should I be civil with you?
00:58:04I may as well be hanging for a sheep as a lamb.
00:58:06You have no right to assume that the court
00:58:08has made up its mind without a fair trial.
00:58:11And please do not address me as General.
00:58:13I am Major Swindon.
00:58:15My deepest apologies.
00:58:17I thought I had the pleasure
00:58:19of addressing Gentlemanly Johnny.
00:58:24I believe I am Gentlemanly Johnny, sir.
00:58:26My more intimate friends call me General Burgoyne.
00:58:28You will understand, sir, I hope,
00:58:30since you seem to be a gentleman
00:58:32and a man of honour.
00:58:34I'm not a gentleman.
00:58:36I'm a man of honour.
00:58:37You will understand, sir, I hope,
00:58:39since you seem to be a gentleman
00:58:41and a man of some spirit in spite of your calling,
00:58:43that if we do have the misfortune to hang you,
00:58:45we shall do so as a mere matter
00:58:47of political necessity and military duty
00:58:49without any personal ill feeling.
00:58:51Well, that makes all the difference in the world, of course.
00:58:53How can you?
00:58:55Believe me, madam,
00:58:57your husband is placing us out of the greatest obligation
00:58:59by taking this very disagreeable business
00:59:01so thoroughly in the spirit of a gentleman.
00:59:03Give Mr. Anderson a chair.
00:59:05You are aware, I presume, Mr. Anderson,
00:59:07of your obligation
00:59:09as the subject of His Majesty King George III?
00:59:11I am aware, sir, that His Majesty King George III
00:59:13is about to hang me
00:59:15because I object to Lord North's robbing me.
00:59:17That is a treasonable speech, sir.
00:59:19I meant it to be.
00:59:21Now, don't you think, Mr. Anderson,
00:59:23this is rather, if you will forgive the word,
00:59:25a vulgar line to take.
00:59:27Why should you cry out robbery
00:59:29because of a stamp duty and a tea duty and so forth?
00:59:31After all, it is the essence of your position as a gentleman
00:59:32with a good grace.
00:59:34It's not the money, General,
00:59:36but to be swindled by a pig-headed lunatic
00:59:38like King George.
00:59:40Shut up!
00:59:42That now is another point of view.
00:59:44My position does not allow my going into that,
00:59:46except in private.
00:59:48Of course, Mr. Anderson,
00:59:50if you are determined to be hanged,
00:59:52there's nothing more to be said.
00:59:54An unusual taste.
00:59:56Shall we call witnesses?
00:59:58What's the need for witnesses?
01:00:00If the villagers had listened to me,
01:00:02they would have been barricaded.
01:00:04The houses loophole, people in arms...
01:00:06Very well, sir.
01:00:08We shall teach you and your fellows a lesson
01:00:10they won't forget.
01:00:12Do you have anything more to say?
01:00:14I think you might have the decency
01:00:16to treat me as a prisoner of war.
01:00:18Shoot me like a man
01:00:20instead of hanging me like a dog.
01:00:22Now, there, Mr. Anderson,
01:00:24you talk like a civilian,
01:00:26if you'll excuse my saying so.
01:00:28Have you any idea of the average marksmanship
01:00:30of the army of His Majesty King George III?
01:00:32The rest will make a mess of the business
01:00:34and leave you to the provost marshal's pistol,
01:00:36whereas we can hang you in a perfectly workman-like
01:00:38and agreeable way.
01:00:40Let me persuade you
01:00:42to be hanged, Mr. Anderson.
01:00:45Thank you, General.
01:00:47That view of the matter hadn't occurred to me.
01:00:49I withdraw my objections.
01:00:51Hang me, by all means.
01:00:53We'll at 12 o'clock shoot you, Mr. Anderson.
01:00:55I shall be at your disposal.
01:00:57Nothing more to be said, gentlemen.
01:00:59You can't do this without a proper trial,
01:01:00Mr. Anderson.
01:01:02My good lady, our only desire is to save unpleasantly.
01:01:04You don't care what you do.
01:01:06You think you can murder a man
01:01:08as long as you do it in uniform?
01:01:10How can a gentleman do this to him?
01:01:12He's not my husband!
01:01:14Gentlemen, I assure you,
01:01:16she won't believe that she can't save him.
01:01:18One moment, gentlemen.
01:01:20One moment, Mr. Anderson.
01:01:24Let me understand you clearly, madam.
01:01:26Do you mean this gentleman is not your husband,
01:01:28or merely,
01:01:30that you are not his wife?
01:01:32I don't know what you mean,
01:01:34but you can ask anyone in the village.
01:01:36They'll tell you he isn't my husband.
01:01:38My husband's escaped, and this man took his place to save him.
01:01:40Escaped? Where to?
01:01:42I don't know! I don't know where he is,
01:01:44and I don't care!
01:01:47Swindon.
01:01:49Might I suggest that a brief recess might be in order?
01:01:52The lady will then have a chance to regain her composure.
01:01:55And you might even find the time to discover,
01:01:57with a little more accuracy,
01:01:58who it is we have been trying half the morning.
01:02:06I beg your pardon, sir. Shall I release the gentleman?
01:02:09What? Certainly not!
01:02:11He's condemned himself out of his own mouth, whoever he is.
01:02:13The sentence remains unchanged.
01:02:15He hangs at 12.
01:02:21Give a Major Swindon enough rope,
01:02:24and he will always hang somebody.
01:02:27Give a Hawkins the choice,
01:02:30and he will always, like any other patriot,
01:02:33prefer killing foreigners to saving a fellow countryman.
01:02:56Fire!
01:03:27What can we do?
01:03:33Back, all of you! Out!
01:03:39Mr. Hawkins, wouldn't it be better if...
01:03:41Get out!
01:03:56Get out!
01:04:16Get out of the way!
01:04:18Get out of the way!
01:04:27Fire!
01:04:34Fire!
01:04:40Come on, hurry up! Man your guns!
01:04:43Minister, you best get inside.
01:04:51Yes.
01:04:57Mr. Anderson, this is most fortuitous.
01:05:00The church needs more than one poor pair of hands today.
01:05:03Where are you going?
01:05:05There's no one in there.
01:05:07Good.
01:05:12Get these wounded inside.
01:05:27The gun.
01:05:30Come on, take the supply line.
01:05:33Two and four guns.
01:05:44Mr. Anderson.
01:05:52Don't go near there. There's ammunition outside.
01:05:54Gunpowder. It's highly inflammable.
01:05:57Take aim.
01:05:59Fire!
01:06:08Mr. Anderson.
01:06:10You were reminded on a previous occasion.
01:06:12This kind of thing can only...
01:06:14Return to the line.
01:06:16The corporal's supposed to set an example.
01:06:18Get back to your company at once.
01:06:27Help!
01:06:29Open the door!
01:06:32Quickly!
01:06:34There's going to be an accident!
01:06:39Hold there!
01:06:41He's a rebel!
01:06:56Gunpowder!
01:07:26Gunpowder!
01:07:56Gunpowder!
01:08:20Get him!
01:08:23No! Not him!
01:08:24Him!
01:08:54Him!
01:09:14Hold your fire!
01:09:16You'll hit me!
01:09:25Maskarevi is a minister in time of war!
01:09:28Seize him!
01:09:30Hold your fire!
01:09:32It will be my pleasure
01:09:34to have you taken outside,
01:09:36put up against the nearest wall,
01:09:38and shot!
01:09:41Silence!
01:09:43Quick!
01:09:54Gunpowder!
01:10:25General Burgoyne's Headquarters.
01:10:29Who are you?
01:10:31A loyal subject of King George,
01:10:33giving assistance to his troops.
01:10:35Look, I have an important message
01:10:37from General Howe for General Burgoyne.
01:10:43What is it?
01:10:45General Burgoyne,
01:10:47I have an important message
01:10:49for General Burgoyne.
01:10:51What is it?
01:10:53This way, sir.
01:11:08Come on! Come on!
01:11:23Come on!
01:11:25Come on!
01:11:27Come on!
01:11:29Come on!
01:11:31Come on!
01:11:33Come on!
01:11:35Hands!
01:11:37After the man! Don't let them rally!
01:11:40What are you waiting for?
01:11:42Here!
01:11:43Come on!
01:11:44Get in there!
01:11:52Come on, Walter!
01:12:23Everything is ready, sir,
01:12:25for the...
01:12:28Oh, the...
01:12:30It lacks but 2 minutes of 12, sir.
01:12:34Thank you for your time, sir.
01:12:37Ample time.
01:12:50Ample time.
01:12:52I should never dream of hanging any gentleman
01:12:55by an American clock.
01:13:00I really must congratulate you, Swindon.
01:13:02Despite your deplorable error
01:13:04and the prisoner's undoubted innocence
01:13:06at the start of the proceeding,
01:13:08you managed to provoke him into guilt
01:13:10by the end of them.
01:13:12A forensic triumph.
01:13:14I'm sure our country is indebted to you.
01:13:21This is no place for a man of your profession.
01:13:23Try to control yourself
01:13:25and submit to the divine will.
01:13:29Sacred music.
01:13:32And a clergyman.
01:13:34To make murder look like piety.
01:13:36You talk to me of Christianity
01:13:38in the act of hanging your enemies?
01:13:40Was there ever such blasphemous nonsense?
01:13:43There's none.
01:13:45I've seen it all.
01:13:47I've seen it all.
01:13:49Prisoner, I appeal to you.
01:13:51If you have any sense of decency left...
01:13:59Man that is born of woman...
01:14:01Thou shalt not kill.
01:14:05I think, Mr. Brudner,
01:14:07that as the usual professional observances
01:14:09strike the prisoner as somewhat incongruous
01:14:11in the circumstances,
01:14:13you had better omit them until
01:14:15he can no longer be inconvenienced by them.
01:14:16Does that suit you, Mr. Anderson?
01:14:18Dutton.
01:14:20Dutton is a name well known to us.
01:14:22You hang my father, that's what you mean?
01:14:24We seem to be somewhat unfortunate
01:14:26in our relations with your family.
01:14:28But I assure you, Mr. Dutton,
01:14:30we are only doing this...
01:14:32Because you're paid to do it.
01:14:34You insolent fellow!
01:14:36I'm really sorry.
01:14:38You should think that, Mr. Dutton.
01:14:40If you knew what my commission cost me
01:14:42and what my pay is,
01:14:44you would think better of me.
01:14:46Carry on.
01:15:17But you don't understand!
01:15:19It's my husband, that...
01:15:21Release my friend here.
01:15:23What the devil is this?
01:15:25Untie him!
01:15:27Get back here!
01:15:29I'll kill you!
01:15:31I'll kill you!
01:15:33I'll kill you!
01:15:35I'll kill you!
01:15:37I'll kill you!
01:15:39I'll kill you!
01:15:41I'll kill you!
01:15:43I'll kill you!
01:15:44Untie him!
01:15:46Get back to your posts!
01:15:48Who are you?
01:15:50Anthony Anderson.
01:15:52Then you're just in time to take your place on the gallows.
01:15:54Take me to General Burgoyne.
01:15:56Arrest this man!
01:16:00Seize him!
01:16:02By safe conduct.
01:16:04Safe conduct?
01:16:06From General Phillips in Springtown.
01:16:09What in the name of...
01:16:12What is the meaning of this?
01:16:14It's terrible, sir.
01:16:16A surprise attack. We were outnumbered.
01:16:18They're holding General Phillips.
01:16:20We had to ask for a truce.
01:16:22What? Monstrous!
01:16:24Now take me to General Burgoyne.
01:16:26Wait here.
01:16:31As for the prisoner,
01:16:33he was convicted on his own account,
01:16:35not on yours,
01:16:37and he hangs accordingly.
01:16:39Carry on, Sergeant.
01:16:44Hang him.
01:16:46Sorry, Mr. Dodgen,
01:16:48but you see how it is.
01:16:52Prisoner and escort,
01:16:54through!
01:16:59Richard, I...
01:17:11I want to beg your very sincere pardon, sir,
01:17:14for not seeing the other gentleman in your place.
01:17:16I found him in your house with the lady.
01:17:19Very much at home, it seemed to me,
01:17:21and from the way they've carried on ever since,
01:17:23I could only think they were man and wife.
01:17:26I'm afraid it may have caused you some domestic trouble, sir.
01:17:32Though in one way, of course, that'll soon be disposed of.
01:17:37The General has graciously contended to...
01:17:41You know the situation, General.
01:17:42Will you now give the orders accordingly?
01:17:44I'm delighted to meet you, Mr. Anderson,
01:17:46though I confess I'm a little puzzled.
01:17:48I understood when we supposed to have had you in custody
01:17:51that you were a clergyman.
01:17:53In the hours of trial, sir, a man finds his true profession.
01:17:56Now our terms,
01:17:58and one to be agreed upon before we even discuss the rest.
01:18:00You stop this execution.
01:18:02I already told you, sir!
01:18:04I can hardly agree to one term, Mr. Anderson,
01:18:06before I know whether there is any likelihood
01:18:08of agreement among the others.
01:18:10I must know the full extent of your demand.
01:18:12Yes, sir.
01:18:17Order up!
01:18:20Very well.
01:18:22Evacuation of Springtower within six hours.
01:18:24All prisoners to be returned, all cannon to be left behind.
01:18:26What?
01:18:27Together with all stores, ammunition and livestock.
01:18:29What?
01:18:30And the immediate unconditional release of Mr. Richard Dudgeon.
01:18:32Monstrous impudence!
01:18:34A little stiff, Mr. Anderson, if I may say so.
01:18:36You may enjoy a temporary superiority,
01:18:38but I'm about to join forces with General Howe in Albany.
01:18:40Within two days I shall have the advantage.
01:18:42And the whole campaign will be over within a week?
01:18:44It may, since General Howe is not in Albany.
01:18:46What?
01:18:48General Howe is still in New York.
01:18:50You expect me to believe that?
01:18:52I expect you to believe this.
01:18:54Where did you get this?
01:18:56One of His Majesty's dispatches.
01:19:00General Howe is not only still in New York,
01:19:02he believes you to be still in Springtown.
01:19:04He sent it to you there.
01:19:06And now will you take the rope off that...
01:19:07American citizen?
01:19:20Stop the drum!
01:19:22Release the prisoner!
01:19:37Don't take too much heart, Captain Anderson.
01:19:39You've only won a skirmish.
01:19:41You may occupy towns and win battles, General,
01:19:43but you cannot conquer a nation.
01:19:45We shall see.
01:19:49General Howe is still in New York.
01:19:51How could he have disobeyed orders?
01:19:53He received no orders, sir.
01:19:55Some gentlemen in London forgot to dispatch them.
01:19:58He was leaving town for his holiday,
01:20:00so he must have been in a hurry.
01:20:02He must have been in a hurry.
01:20:04He must have been in a hurry.
01:20:05He was leaving town for his holiday, I understand.
01:20:09So to avoid upsetting his arrangements,
01:20:11England will lose her American colonies.
01:20:15In a few days, you and I will be at Saratoga
01:20:17with 5,000 men to face 18,000 rebels
01:20:19in an impregnable position.
01:20:21I can't believe it!
01:20:23Take it quietly, Swindon.
01:20:25Your friend, the British soldier,
01:20:27can stand up to anything,
01:20:29except the British War Office.
01:20:31But what will history say?
01:20:35History, sir,
01:20:37will tell lies, as usual.
01:20:39Mr. Dutton.
01:20:42Let's go to Fallout.
01:20:50Don't be concerned, Judith.
01:20:52We all one day must learn the truth about ourselves.
01:20:56The Reverend Anderson no longer exists.
01:20:59As for Captain Anderson of the Springtown Militia,
01:21:02he won't stand in your way.
01:21:06Captain Anderson.
01:21:09What can I say?
01:21:11You've given me my life.
01:21:20Judith.
01:21:22I have very little to offer you.
01:21:24Even my small reputation
01:21:26as a ne'er-do-well is in jeopardy, it seems.
01:21:28But I shall do my best to get it back.
01:21:31The end of the world is waiting.
01:21:33The end of the world is waiting.
01:21:35Shall we go?
01:22:02Oh, Mr. Dutton.
01:22:04Since we can't hang you,
01:22:06perhaps you would care to take tea with me this afternoon?
01:22:11I shall be delighted.
01:22:13Good. Four o'clock then.
01:22:15And bring Mrs. Anderson with you.
01:22:22General Burgoyne surrendered three weeks later.
01:22:24The reasons for his defeat
01:22:26are now a matter of history.
01:22:29And on that, of course,
01:22:30it is impossible to rely.
01:22:32But the rest of this story
01:22:34is pure fiction.
01:22:36You can safely believe
01:22:38every word of it.
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