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Sergeant Saunders has to search a deserted town for Germans with 3 very inexperienced soldiers, in which one may be a coward.

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00:00Oh
00:30Hey, Sarge, I'll trade you a nice cold glass of milk for those clean sheets you carry in your pack.
00:42Knock it off a little, John. I'm not in the mood.
00:44You will be when you hear the good news.
00:46What good news?
00:47We're getting three new men.
00:50Replacements?
00:51Kirby went to get them.
00:53Well, it's about time.
00:57Replacements.
00:59Hey, Sarge.
01:00The war will be over in a week.
01:01I've got replacements here.
01:02You guys, come on in.
01:05Line up right there, boy.
01:08Sergeant, straighten up in.
01:11Sergeant, these three warriors here come to you directly from two years of rear echelon duty in England.
01:18They are left to right.
01:22Officer Mescook.
01:24And this fellow is a calisthenics instructor.
01:28And this little fellow here, he's a radio announcer from the AFRS.
01:35They're all yours, Sergeant.
01:36You killed him.
01:45Let's see.
02:03All right.
02:04that is. You can take off your helmets if you want. Just take them off. What's your
02:12name? Joe Gainsborough. Is that General Joe Gainsborough, Colonel Joe Gainsborough, or
02:19just plain private Joe Gainsborough? Just plain private Joe Gainsborough. Serial number?
02:26Three. One, three, four. Three, four. I don't know. What's this called? A gun. This is a rifle.
02:47Rifle. Rifle. Rifle. Now, how much does it weigh? Uh, what do you weigh? 205. 205, huh? What did you weigh when you were drafted? 160. I've been a cook for two years. What's the final protective line? The main line of resistance?
03:17Ah. Do you know? No, sir. Sir is used for officers. I'm a sergeant. What's your name? Private Wayne Temple, Jr. Serial number 3141210.
03:32What do you put in that rifle? Bullets. Caliber? 30. How many to a clip? Six. You're wrong. Do you know? Eight. Are you sure?
03:46The U.S. Rifle M1 is a gas-operated semi-automatic shoulder weapon that takes a clip of eight cartridges.
03:53Well, well, well, well. Now we're getting somewhere, huh? Or is that all you know? I know what I've been taught. No more, no less.
04:00Taught where? Infantry refresher training class. We had two weeks. Two weeks. And learned?
04:07The rifle, the pack, field sanitation, military customs and courtesies. My name is Jerome Crown, serial number 434...
04:14Nobody asked you for your name, private. Have any of you seen any action?
04:22Any special military training of any kind? Oh, sure they have, Sarge. Look, that one over there was a fry cook for two years,
04:28and this one a calisthenics instructor, and this one here was with the radio service and overseas.
04:33Look, we didn't ask to be sent here.
04:34Uh, Gainsborough, what did you do before the war?
04:40I was a used car salesman.
04:45You?
04:47I was a physical education student.
04:49Oh, in a pig's eye.
04:51I saw his records. He was in ballet.
04:53Ballet.
04:54Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
04:55Come on, let's knock it off now.
04:56Let's try to give him a chance, huh?
04:58Now, what was it, uh, phys ed or ballet?
05:06Ballet.
05:08I wanted to go into the theater. Musical comedy, maybe.
05:17All right, Mr. Radio announcer, what did you do before the war?
05:20I was a radio announcer.
05:21I was a disc jockey in Cincinnati, and I'll be one again, too, the day I get out of here.
05:24When you get out, what makes you think they're going to be disc jockeys in 1980, boy?
05:30Oh, don't worry, smart guy.
05:32I won't be here in 1946, let alone 1980.
05:35There's only a cleric goof that sent me down here in the first place.
05:38I'll be back in London in two weeks.
05:40Or in a grave.
05:42Oh, no.
05:43Not unless my luck runs real low, buddy.
05:46Like a direct hit in the head.
05:48Replacements.
05:54Lieutenant, did you see the replacements they sent me?
06:02All right, let's at it.
06:03Well, it's no joke. These guys won't last a week.
06:06I'm worried about it.
06:08So am I.
06:08What do you want me to do about it?
06:10Send them back to London.
06:11And get what in exchange?
06:13Soldiers.
06:15From who, quartermaster?
06:17All right, let's get down to business.
06:19You've got a detail tomorrow afternoon.
06:22Reconnaissance patrol, six men including yourself.
06:24Six men?
06:26Lieutenant, my squad is poo.
06:28My men are breathing from habit.
06:30I can't find six men who can stand, let alone go on.
06:33All right, make it three men.
06:34Close for three replacements.
06:36Lieutenant, are you kidding?
06:37They'll get us all killed.
06:38They don't know a patrol from a picnic.
06:42Teach them the difference.
06:46Teach them the difference.
06:53All right, let's try another one.
06:58Down.
07:00Pull pin.
07:01Prepare to throw.
07:03Throw!
07:03All right, you and Gainsborough go back in a bond with curb ears and work on your hand and arm signals.
07:17Right.
07:20All right, you're next.
07:23Down in here.
07:29Down.
07:29Pull pin.
07:33Pull pin.
07:33Prepare to throw.
07:34Throw.
07:34I got it the first time around.
07:36Well, good for you.
07:39Pull pin.
07:41Prepare to throw.
07:43Throw!
07:43I'm going to tear you apart.
07:58Why, because I dropped a grenade?
08:00It wasn't my fault.
08:00It slipped out of my hand.
08:01All right, it was an accident.
08:03Yeah, so what are you getting so sore about?
08:05Why did you run?
08:06Why didn't you pick that grenade up first and throw it away?
08:08I told you to do that before, if it ever happened.
08:10What would happen if there were a dozen men down there?
08:14How many do you think would get out alive because you ran?
08:17Oh, come on.
08:18Get off my back, will you?
08:19Look, you fight your war and I'll fight mine.
08:21You want to get to Berlin, I want to get to Cincinnati.
08:25Sergeant!
08:26Sergeant!
08:28All clear!
08:31All clear.
08:34Hey, the Nutella wants you on the double.
08:36What for?
08:36What is he want me for?
08:37The patrol.
08:38We're moving out right now.
08:39Okay, Sonny.
08:42School's out.
08:59All right, this mission couldn't be simpler.
09:02Battalion S-2 is right.
09:03There's little danger.
09:05If they called it wrong, there could be a lot.
09:06Now, this map is right only in general detail.
09:11Don't count on the landmarks.
09:13Now, we're here.
09:14The Germans are dug in in force here at Moreau.
09:17On the road to Moreau is a town called Emile.
09:20We think it's deserted, but the Germans have pulled out completely.
09:24Well, maybe that's what they want us to think.
09:26Your job is to find out for sure and report back.
09:29Don't engage the enemy unless you have to.
09:32This is a reconnaissance patrol.
09:33Any questions?
09:34Yes, sir.
09:35Does S-2 have any idea of what we might run into, if anything at all?
09:38No light stuff, probably.
09:40But enough to cut our platoon down on the way through if we're not ready for them.
09:44Any more questions?
09:46All right, you pull out in an hour.
09:48That's all.
09:48Hey, soldier.
10:11What did you say your name was?
10:12Temple.
10:13Look, Temple, don't worry too much about getting killed, will you?
10:18I'm not.
10:19It's killing other people I'm worried about.
10:28All right, grenades.
10:30Two apiece.
10:33I don't think we'll be seeing much action today, but let's just take them with us, huh?
10:40Junior?
10:41Grenades.
10:44Two for you.
10:50Gage, uh, told me something was bothering you.
10:54I'm all right.
10:57Look, everybody is... is afraid.
10:59I mean, there's nothing wrong with that.
11:01I'm not like everybody, Sergeant.
11:04You think dancers can make good soldiers?
11:06Sure, why not?
11:10What about cops?
11:12Well, what about cops?
11:14That's what I am.
11:15By bloodline.
11:17Father, grandfather, brother, cousin.
11:20All cops.
11:22Well, what's your point?
11:23People killing people.
11:28I grew up with it.
11:30A cop gets shot or somebody gets shot by the cop.
11:35After a while, it didn't matter to me which was which.
11:37I just wanted to get out a million miles away from it.
11:41I don't think I'd make a very good cop either.
11:45How do you like that?
11:47The men in my family couldn't wait to enroll me in the nearest police academy.
11:51I'll bet ballet school discouragement, huh?
11:55It also got me thrown out of the house.
11:59Anyway, I didn't want you to think that what I feel about people killing and being killed is new to me.
12:06It isn't.
12:07You know what I think?
12:09Huh?
12:10I think you're way ahead of the next fellow.
12:12You've got the edge.
12:13You want to know why?
12:14Because you grew up with, um, people killing people all around you.
12:19You know what it's like.
12:21But you take a look at them.
12:24Crown and Gainsborough.
12:26All this is brand new to them.
12:28So you just think of that, huh?
12:31You just, um, just think of that.
12:35Hey, hey, come on, you guys.
12:46Let's go fight a war, huh?
12:47Let's go.
13:17Let's go.
13:40Get back.
13:41Cage.
13:47Let's go.
14:17See anything?
14:21Just an empty town.
14:24We'll have to go in closer to get a better look.
14:26All of us?
14:27All of us.
14:29All of us.
14:31All of us.
14:59All right.
15:00Cage, you take Gainsborough.
15:01Kirby, you take Junior.
15:02Crown your mind.
15:03I will circle the perimeter and come in on the other end of town.
15:06What?
15:07What?
15:08What?
15:09What?
15:10What?
15:11What?
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15:15What?
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15:27What?
15:28What?
15:29What?
15:30What?
15:31What?
15:32Why the other end of town?
15:33Because this is the way they would expect us to come in.
15:35Now you four, you take the east side.
15:37Cage in Gainsborough, you go first, Kirby.
15:39You and Junior, you follow him 20 yards.
15:41We'll take the west side.
15:42Hey.
15:43Who covers us?
15:44We cover each other.
15:46Good luck, Sarge.
15:48We're near that little house right next to the church.
15:53You see it?
15:59All right. Move out.
16:14All right.
16:44You cover the street on the other side of this bridge.
16:59Go all the way down to that archway. I'll take this side.
17:02I thought we always worked in Paris.
17:04We are.
17:05I'll only be a shot away from you.
17:07Now, if you see anything, you pull back faster than me right here.
17:14Let's go.
17:44Go.
17:47Go.
17:50Go.
17:51Go.
17:55Go.
17:56Come on.
18:26Come on.
18:48See anything?
18:49No, Joe.
18:50You check the whole street?
18:52Sure.
18:53All the way down the archway?
18:54Sure.
18:55What do you do?
18:56All right.
18:57Let's get back together.
18:58We've got one more to go on.
18:59What for?
19:00We found the town was empty, didn't we?
19:02Well, it seems empty.
19:04Now we've got to check it through house by house.
19:25We've got to be able to get back to house by house by house.
19:28We need to be able to get back to house by house.
19:32We've got to get home.
19:33We've got to go back to house.
19:35I'm sorry that we can't eat milk.
19:37Milch?
19:38I've seen it for a long time.
19:40It's like a bit of wine.
19:41Wine?
19:42Yeah.
19:43A bit of wine here.
19:44Ah!
19:45Ah!
19:46Ah!
19:47Ah!
19:48Ah!
19:49Ah!
19:50Ah!
19:51Ah!
19:52Ah!
19:53Ah!
19:54Ah!
19:55Ah!
19:56Ah!
19:58Ah!
19:59Ah!
20:00Ah!
20:01Ah!
20:02Ah!
20:03Ah!
20:04Ah!
20:05Ah!
20:06Ah!
20:07Ah!
20:08Ah!
20:09Ah!
20:10Ah!
20:11Ah!
20:12Ah!
20:13Ah!
20:14Ah!
20:15Ah!
20:16Ah!
20:17Ah!
20:18Ah!
20:19Ah!
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20:21Ah!
20:22Ah!
20:23Ah!
20:24Ah!
20:25Ah!
20:26Ah!
20:27Ah!
20:28Ah!
20:29Ah!
20:30Ah!
20:31Ah!
20:32Ah!
20:33Ah!
20:34Let's go.
20:35Let's go.
20:36Come on.
20:37Come on.
20:38Come on.
20:39Come on.
20:40Come on.
20:41Come on.
20:42Come on.
20:43Come on.
20:44Come on.
20:45Come on.
20:46Come on.
20:47Come on.
20:48Come on.
20:49You spot anything?
20:50I don't know, but a couple of geeses.
20:51You?
20:52No, nothing.
20:53When you pull out of here, they must have pulled pretty fast.
20:54All right, we'll use this shop as our base of operations.
21:04We're going to have to go through this town again, house by house.
21:07With the same teams.
21:09Now, if you run into any trouble, try to make it back here.
21:13All right, Kirby, Junior.
21:15Let's go, Junior.
21:19Cage, Gainsborough.
21:24Come on, Gainsborough.
21:25I don't mind telling you I'm scared.
21:27I don't mind telling you that's the way you're supposed to be.
21:30Come on.
21:34Come on.
21:35Let's go, Crown.
21:37Let's go, Crown.
21:38Let's go, Crown.
22:08Hey, Junior, you all right?
22:38Hey, they're long dead, Junior.
22:55They've been here over a week.
22:59Come on, let's go.
23:06What's the matter with you?
23:07Dead men can't hurt you.
23:08Don't you know that?
23:12Come on, let's go back to the dress shop.
23:14Come on, let's go back.
23:22Come on!
23:24Come on.
23:28Come on.
23:31Come on.
23:34What are you trying to do?
23:36I'm trying.
23:42I'm sorry.
23:44I'll be more careful.
23:46Well, another stunt like that one,
23:48you won't have a chance.
23:50All right.
23:52Let's go back.
23:54I'm sorry.
23:56I'll be more careful.
23:58Well, another stunt like that one,
24:00you won't have a chance.
24:02All right, let's go back to the dress shop.
24:04Come on.
24:08Check this house out. I'm gonna go around the corner.
24:10But I really mean check it. Upstairs and downstairs.
24:13And be careful what you touch.
24:15This place may be booby-trapped.
24:17Booby-trapped?
24:19That's right.
24:23Come on.
24:32You wanna go?
24:33You just want to go around the corner.
24:34You can't leave them permanently.
24:35You have to go around the corner.
24:36I'm sorry you're here.
24:37How about you and I won't be doing it.
24:38How about you?
24:39How about you?
24:41How about you?
24:42I'm sorry.
24:43How about you?
24:44I'm sorry.
24:46You've had a good idea.
24:47How about you?
24:48Good job.
24:49We'll have the same time for you.
24:50Good job.
24:51Good job.
24:52All right now!
24:53Good job.
24:54Well, you're sure you're too busy.
24:55Good job.
24:56Now, you tell me you checked this house through,
25:10and I'll tell you where you stand.
25:12You said it might be booby-trapped.
25:13And maybe full of Germans.
25:15Now, what about that street that you checked
25:17when we're alone in town?
25:18Did you cover it all the way?
25:20Did you check it down to the end?
25:21Give it back to that dress shop.
25:27Move!
25:47Now, that was some idea, sorry, bringing these guys alone.
25:50Now, they're going to make real great soldier boys.
25:53Now, the cook here's got two big, fat left feet.
25:56Cage, I'm calling you.
26:00Why don't you go to that bridge on the outside of town
26:02and stay on watch?
26:03I don't want us to walk into any flanking patrols
26:05when we move out of here.
26:07Now, if you hear any shooting, we're not there by dark.
26:10You'll hightail it for home now.
26:11You got that?
26:12Got it.
26:13All right, move out.
26:20Kirby, you and I are going to have to check this town alone.
26:26Now, the rest of you men stay here.
26:28And I mean stay here.
26:29Stay here.
26:50I mean, what do they expect, huh?
26:52You can't make a silk purse out of a Sal's ear, you know.
26:57Look, the only Germans in this burg are dead ones.
27:00Ask him.
27:02How many were there, Temple?
27:05I don't know.
27:06Two.
27:07Maybe more.
27:08Pretty shot up?
27:20Oh, brother.
27:23That's what I call slop.
27:26Tired of key rations, huh?
27:28You know it.
27:31Hey, is this stuff any better heated up, Joe?
27:36What is it?
27:37What is it?
28:07Do you have to have any trouble with up.
28:12Then I'll have it.
28:12Come on.
28:30There, he was.
28:32I was in jail.
28:33I was just dressed up.
28:34Oh holds off for dinner.
28:35Don't have to be married.
28:36Put that fire out!
28:45Get off the road!
28:51Rauch! Das Rieb raucht!
28:56Was kann denn das sein, Duart?
28:58Es sind eine Trübe am Reganer ganz bestimmt.
29:00Come on.
29:06Herbie, check the outside.
29:08See if this raised anything.
29:27No, no, no.
29:29I'm holding that head with enough brains to the earth.
29:30Fire gives off smoke.
29:31Just a little fire.
29:32Now you just shut up.
29:34I've taken all the lip I'm going to take from you.
29:38Fire!
29:59Herbie.
30:06Put that helmet on.
30:09Get away, Johnny.
30:12Put your helmet on.
30:21Stay down.
30:22Let's go.
30:33Herbie.
30:34Come on.
30:37Give me a hand.
30:45I can't see you.
30:45I can't see you.
30:46I can't see you.
30:51Come on.
30:52Give me a hand.
30:52Come on, give me a hand.
31:09He got it on the shoulder.
31:10Temple, you get over here and stop that bleeding.
31:12If you're gonna die, just get over there.
31:17This first aid gets on his carcass belt.
31:22Come on!
31:40Obergefreiter, we need a high position.
31:42Yes, that's not enough enough.
31:45The best thing is, we go to the second block.
31:48Take the machine away.
31:52Why'd they stop firing, Sarge?
31:55I don't know.
31:56Against changing that gun position, they got a bit of crack at us.
32:00Kirby!
32:01Can you hear me?
32:02Uh-huh.
32:03We're gonna get you out of here, Kirby.
32:05What are we gonna do now?
32:07How about the Krauts, I mean?
32:08Push them out.
32:10Kill them.
32:12Kraut, you're coming with me.
32:14Where?
32:15Do you remember these?
32:17We're gonna get close enough.
32:19And throw in a couple.
32:20He can't.
32:21We're pinned down.
32:22I'll go with you, Sarge.
32:23No, thanks.
32:24He got us into this mess and he's gonna help get us out.
32:38Now you stay with Kirby.
32:39I'll be.
32:51Send us here off.
33:09Get down!
33:10Get down!
33:11Get down!
33:26Are you all right?
33:30I got hit in the leg.
33:32Can you move?
33:35Why?
33:38So you could run all the way back home?
33:41I'll bet you wish we could.
33:43Why am I getting the blame for all this?
33:45Supposing I had checked that street before all the way down to the end?
33:47What would I have gotten from my trouble?
33:48My head blown off?
33:50Better one head than five.
33:56No way out of this?
33:59They got the machine gun, pal.
34:02You think they got him?
34:04I don't know.
34:06There could be a whole platoon of crowds out there.
34:09We better get with Saunders.
34:10Wait a minute.
34:11Saunders told us to stay here with Kirby.
34:14You stay here with him.
34:16I'm gonna help him.
34:31Get him out!
34:32Get back!
34:33Get back!
34:34Fire!
34:35Get back!
34:36Get back!
34:37Get back!
34:38Fire!
35:05Well, I'll leave us two of you.
35:35Get back!
36:00What are you doing here?
36:01I told you to stay with Kirby.
36:02Kirby's okay.
36:03Gainsborough is dead, Sergeant.
36:05Yeah, I know.
36:07Now, what can I do?
36:09What can you do?
36:13Blow up that machine gun.
36:22All right.
36:26What do you think you're doing?
36:28I can get up on that roof.
36:30Climb along the rooftops.
36:32Go from one to the other.
36:34I think I can get close enough to through.
36:36It won't even win.
36:38Forget it, Junior.
36:40You'll never make it.
36:42I'll make it.
36:44I'll make it.
36:48I'm a dancer.
36:49Remember?
37:06Cover him.
37:07Cover him anyway.
37:08You'll never make it.
37:09Cover him anyway.
37:37Let's go.
37:38Cover him!
37:39Let's go.
37:40I'll make it.
37:41He's going to be with him.
37:42I'm going to be with him.
37:43Don't run away.
37:45Shout out to maybe a boy.
37:47You're my friend.
37:49This is a man.
37:51Hello.
37:52Come on.
38:22Come on.
38:52Come on.
39:22Come on.
39:52Come on.
39:54Come on.
39:56Come on.
39:58Come on.
40:00Come on.
40:02Come on.
40:04Come on.
40:06Come on.
40:08Come on.
40:10Come on.
40:12Come on.
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40:16Come on.
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40:20Come on.
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40:24Come on.
40:26Come on.
40:30Come on.
40:32Come on.
40:34Come on.
40:56Come on.
41:02Come on.
41:04Come on.
41:06Come on.
41:26Come on.
41:28Come on.
41:30Come on.
41:32Come on.
41:34Come on.
41:36Come on.
41:38Bring it down.
41:40I can't catch him from here!
41:48Take that gun!
41:49Take him down!
42:10I can't catch him!
42:40Sergeant!
42:42Sergeant, we got him!
42:43We got him, Sergeant!
43:03All right.
43:07All right.
43:10Now let's see if you two soldiers can get us back home.
43:40How you doing, Kirby?
43:41Tell you the truth, Lieutenant.
43:42Shoulders not bad.
43:43It's my bottom.
43:44It hurts.
43:45I think those guys dropped me twelve times coming back in.
43:46How you feeling, Sergeant?
43:47I feel like staying here a month.
43:49You know, they got pills here to let you sleep right through artillery fire?
43:52Got some good news for you.
43:53You got some good news for you.
43:54You're getting five new replacements.
43:56Replacements?
43:57Replacements.
43:58Replacements.
43:59Well, I could use them for you.
44:00You're getting five new replacements.
44:01Replacements.
44:02You're getting five new replacements.
44:03Replacements.
44:05I could use them.
44:06Of course, with that leg of yours, you're gonna have to get somebody else to break them in for you.
44:07Like Cage.
44:08No, Lieutenant.
44:09Not Cage.
44:10I can't.
44:11You're lucky.
44:12You'receled among them.
44:13How are you feeling, Sergeant?
44:14I feel like staying here a month.
44:15You know they got pills here to let you sleep right through artillery fire.
44:19I got some good news for you.
44:22You're getting five new replacements.
44:25Well, I could use him.
44:29Of course, with that leg of yours,
44:30you're gonna have to get somebody else to break him in for you,
44:32like Cage.
44:34No, Lieutenant, not Cage.
44:36How about Temple?
44:38Or Crown?
44:44But Joe Gainsborough, if he was still around.
44:55.
45:05.
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