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Lt. Kimbro leads a squad of volunteers behind enemy lines in order to demolish a strategic bridge, thus bottling up a large Nazi contingency force, setting them up for an oncoming massive Allied bombing raid. However, Kimbro's mission is problematized by a personal clash between two men in his unit -- a zealous demolition expert (Peter Brown) and the Italian engineer who designed and built the bridge in question.
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00:00An infantry company is a self-contained unit designed primarily as a tactical force to spearhead
00:07assaults on established enemy positions. But sometimes an infantry company is given an
00:12assignment which falls outside its normal duties, such as the assignment A company has received
00:18tonight. Give it to the gum, D'Angelo. It's a fresh piece. Let's quiet down.
00:22You people have been selected for a patrol. This isn't the usual kind of combat patrol.
00:31You'll be going behind a German line, so pay attention. Our objective is this bridge over
00:36the Bella Rosa River, right here. Lieutenant Kimbrough is your patrol leader. I'm also sending
00:42Sergeant McKenna. These two gentlemen are demolition experts from the 132nd Engineers,
00:49Lieutenant Hodges and Sergeant Varney. Your job is to get them to that bridge so they can blow it.
00:55There's a whole German division dug in along here between us and the river. They're right in the
01:03path of a scheduled divisional offensive. This bridge is their main route of withdrawal, so if you can
01:08knock it out, all their heavy equipment, tanks, trucks, etc. will pile up on this side of the
01:12river, sitting ducks we hope for the Air Corps. This is Senor Lorenzo Donetti. He was the engineer
01:18before the war who built the bridge we're going to knock out. He's very familiar with his territory.
01:23Now, the explosives you're going to need will be airdropped to a partisan group on this side
01:26of the river. Mr. Donetti is your contact with the partisans. You push off at 2400 hours. Now,
01:31I can't tell you when the offensive will begin, but this bridge has got to be knocked out by 0800 Sunday.
01:35It's about all I have. Lieutenant Kimbrough will finish the briefing. Good luck.
01:43Look, if it's you and Hanson, we'll serve as patrol scouts. The German sector begins here.
01:54What are their chances?
01:56Not good.
01:57Not bad.
02:05Not bad.
02:20Not bad.
02:21Not bad.
02:35I'm not a young man.
02:37Perhaps if I rested for a few minutes.
02:46Okay, take five.
02:51We're in the German sector now.
02:53We ought to be in Cerrito by daybreak.
02:54According to intelligence, Jerry should have pulled out a week ago from the village.
02:58Okay, that's it.
03:13What are you going to do about him?
03:14What do you mean?
03:16He's an old man. He's going to be holding us up, slowing us down.
03:19My order is to take him in with us.
03:21We need him to contact the partisans.
03:22As long as he can keep up, that's the way it's going to be.
03:32Lukovic, Hansen.
03:36Scout ahead.
03:37He's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going to be holding us up, and he's going
04:07It's him!
04:11Look.
04:24Cerrito.
04:26Right on schedule.
04:29Not a creature was stirring.
04:31Not even a mouse.
04:34Yeah?
04:37No.
05:07No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
05:37No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
06:07I didn't see anything out there, but we've got to assume that Jerry's in that village.
06:33We don't have time to go around those mountains, and we can't get past the village without being seen,
06:37so we've got to go through it and try to take them by surprise.
06:40I'll divide the patrol up into two groups.
06:42I'll take the kill party, and Lieutenant Hodges, you'll cover us.
06:45All right.
06:46We'll move out right now.
06:48Uh, Lieutenant, today he stays with you.
06:51Thanks.
06:51I'll assign one of my men to hold his hand.
06:54Let's go.
06:55Let's go.
06:57Let's go.
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13:40Let's go.
13:41These soldiers. These soldiers.
13:49They... all ran away.
13:52Come on, come on.
13:58Come on.
14:00Come on.
14:03Come on.
14:18That's the three of them will tell it.
14:48All right, get them off the street.
14:55Come on!
15:01I found a hiding in one of the buildings.
15:05She says her name is Carla.
15:07What are you doing here?
15:11This is my home.
15:13Why didn't you leave with the other civilians?
15:16My grandfather was very sick.
15:19I stay here to take care of him.
15:20He died three days ago.
15:22What is your grandfather's name?
15:24Giuseppe Battagno.
15:26I know the family well, Lieutenant.
15:29They've lived in this valley for generations.
15:35All right, have the men shower down. We're moving out soon.
15:37Yes, sir.
15:47How is it?
15:48You'll be able to walk out with the rest of us.
15:50What about it, Sergeant?
15:52Not very good, sir.
15:54Lieutenant.
15:55Lieutenant.
15:56I'm gonna need him.
15:57I'm against the bridge, Lieutenant.
15:58I can't endanger this patrol by taking a man unfit to travel.
16:00Lieutenant, you don't...
16:01He stays here.
16:03Our guys will be through in a few days. You wait for them.
16:08Yes, sir.
16:09Lugovich, Saunders. Get him inside the church.
16:14Ernie?
16:32Yeah?
16:33Did you ever play polo?
16:35Sure. I was a champ in downtown Detroit.
16:39Boy, that's some game.
16:41You play polo.
16:43No, but I heard about him.
16:46Where?
16:47My girl.
16:49Girl.
16:50She's from South America.
16:53Used to play polo on her father's ranch every Sunday afternoon.
16:57Boy, that's what I call Rich. Your own polo.
17:02You better stop smoking those K-Ratch and cigarettes.
17:05I'm out of her to dance. Real fancy school dance.
17:09You know, she actually invited me to Argentina for the summer.
17:14Well, you had to disappoint her. That was your summer for the Riviera.
17:18Didn't have a car figure.
17:23You ever been to Argentina?
17:28Rains all the time.
17:33Mosquito's as big as your fist.
17:35Yeah?
17:38How do you know? You been there?
17:40No, but I heard.
17:42Good I didn't go. I hate rain.
17:45And you don't speak Spanish.
17:47I probably wouldn't have learned polo in one summer anyway.
17:49What?
17:50No.
17:51No.
17:52No, I can't.
17:53What's your name on her?
17:54You babysat at the hotel the summer anyway.
17:55No.
17:56No!
17:57No.
17:59No.
18:00No.
18:01No.
18:02No!
18:04No.
18:05No.
18:06No.
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18:08No.
18:09Yes.
18:10No?
18:12No.
18:13No.
18:14No.
18:15No.
18:16No, no, no.
18:17No.
18:18Thanks.
18:40We'll be pulling out of here in a few minutes.
18:43The girl said she'd see too that you had food and water.
18:45Clean bandages.
18:48Lieutenant, there's something I want to tell you before you go.
18:53It's about Lieutenant Hodges.
18:59He doesn't mean anything by the way he acts.
19:03It's just that blowing this bridge is something he's got to do.
19:06What do you mean?
19:07It's like he's got to make up for something.
19:13It happened in Sicily right after the invasion.
19:15We had an assignment to knock out a bridge.
19:21It was raining that night.
19:24Everything was all set.
19:28But an old man, a civilian, started to cross that bridge.
19:36The lieutenant waited for him to clear.
19:38When the bridge didn't go on time, two of our powder men came back to check.
19:47The lieutenant didn't see them.
19:52They went up with that bridge.
19:56And the lieutenant took it pretty hard.
19:58So when this assignment came up, he volunteered for it.
20:06We'll try to get him there.
20:08The rest is up to him.
20:12Take care of yourself.
20:14Yeah.
20:17Lieutenant.
20:18Thanks.
20:19Sure, Sergeant.
20:20Get the moving, Sergeant.
20:33Yes, sir.
20:34Let's go.
20:35Let's go.
20:35Let's go.
21:05I'll bring you some food.
21:14It's nothing very much.
21:17The wine is good.
21:21It's from the vineyard of my grandmother.
21:23I'm not sure what you're doing.
21:25I'm not sure what you're doing.
21:27I'm not sure what you're doing.
21:29I'm not sure what you're doing.
21:31I'm not sure what you're doing.
21:33It's from the vineyard of my grandfather.
21:38You are...
21:40welcome?
21:55Is there something wrong?
21:56No.
21:58You've never seen men die before, have you?
22:01I mean like...
22:03out there in the street this morning.
22:08I think I know how you feel.
22:10How can you know what I feel?
22:14You're a soldier. You are used to this killing.
22:19You'll never get used to it.
22:21Why do you stay here?
22:24Why do you go on with it?
22:31Why don't you leave us alone?
22:38Carla.
22:42Thanks.
22:45For this.
23:01Go.
23:04Let me go.
23:06Going.
23:15I'm not the
23:21How can you take advantage of not having her?
23:23We have to take you to the doctor.
23:26Where is the American, Carla?
23:29In the house.
23:33Where do I go?
23:35Please, my friend.
23:38You're sick. You're sick.
23:41You're sick.
23:43You're sick.
23:47Come on, Carla.
23:50Please.
23:53Please.
23:55Please.
23:57Please.
24:00Please.
24:03Here's my room.
24:06Let's open my room.
24:12Remember.
24:16Please.
24:19There it is. The end of the line.
24:36Not yet, Lieutenant.
24:38We have to work our way downriver to a spot where it is fordable.
24:43On the other side of the river, we'll be met by our partisan contact.
24:47How far from the bridge is that?
24:48Oh, I should say about six kilometers.
24:52We're two hours behind schedule. Gotta make it up.
24:56I understand, Lieutenant.
25:10Lieutenant Hadius, I would like to speak to you for a moment, if I may.
25:14Ever since we left, you've made it very clear that you do not like me. Why?
25:20Look, it's not that I don't like you. You'd be fine if you were back where you belong.
25:24And where is that?
25:25Back with the arrest of the civilians. With the old men, the women, and the children.
25:32Can I tell you something?
25:35I have been able to look at you these past days and tell that destroying the Belarosa Bridge
25:40is much more important to you than merely doing your job as a soldier.
25:45Can you understand that it is also very important to me, but for a very different reason?
25:52No, I can't understand that at all. You were the one that built this bridge. Why should you want to destroy it?
26:01I am too old to fight, so I must help in any way I can.
26:07Even if it means destroying the one thing in my life of which I am most proud.
26:13The Belarosa Bridge.
26:31Why should I celebrate?
26:32I don't care.
26:33Why should I always begin Oprah?
26:34And does it get away?
26:35If you did anything, then I'm a man who wordt Shane.
26:36I can't figure it out.
26:38For Sarah.
26:39Then.
26:41I will be behind ¡ alimentos are going to work!
26:43I can't wait to see him as possible.
26:44I'll be behind.
26:45What can I do till it starts mills.
26:46I'll see."
26:47Then can he do it.
26:50I'll frighten myself.
26:51Now.
26:54And let him do it.
26:55I'll do it.
26:57He's not done it.
26:58Absolutely.
26:59Jewish.
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34:50Now, if you hope to be successful in your mission, you will have to act quickly.
34:54Have your map? Yes.
35:07Now, the German garrison is here.
35:12The guards at the bridge have been doubled.
35:14I'm afraid, Lieutenant, the Germans have guessed your mission here.
35:17Is there any other way to get to the bridge?
35:20The only chance is to follow Bella Russell Road to this point.
35:23It's only three kilometers from there to the bridge.
35:26The guards are here.
35:28It's possible to approach the bridge along the bank from below.
35:32If you want, we can have two small boats waiting for you beyond this point here.
35:37We only have until tomorrow morning at 0800.
35:40If that's the only possibility, that's the way it'll have to be.
35:43Now, here's what I need from you.
35:45Since we have to go along this road, I want to owe clothes for him first.
35:50Let's go.
35:51Let's go.
35:52Let's go.
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36:00Let's go.
36:01Let's go.
36:03We are in a long time.
36:05There is an American patrol in the area.
36:10Let's go.
36:12Let's go.
36:14Let's go.
36:18We are in a long time.
36:20There is an American patrol in the area.
36:23Let's go.
36:25Let's go.
36:33Where is the pass?
36:40I don't understand.
36:42Let's go.
36:44Let's go.
37:03Let's go.
37:12Let's go.
37:13Go!
37:14Go!
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37:19Go!
37:20Go!
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37:23Go!
37:24Get that Hitler, Hitler.
37:26Get Hitler.
37:27Come on.
37:28Come on.
37:30Come on.
37:38Go! Go! All right, go! Go!
38:00Go! Go!
38:30Go!
38:36Where's your bridge, Dinetti?
38:38Yes. La Bella Rosa.
38:41I'm gonna get the stuff unloaded.
38:43Yes, sir. De Angelo ditched the truck.
38:45Let's get that stuff out of there. Come on.
39:00Let's go.
41:04Okay.
41:06The boats that are supposed to take us out of here should be in that cove up ahead.
41:10Good luck.
41:12Let's move back and cover the road.
41:18Let's move back and cover the road.
41:20Let's move back and cover the road.
41:28Let's move back and cover the road.
41:38Let's move back and cover the road.
41:44Let's move back and cover the road.
41:52Let's move back and cover the road.
41:54Let's move back and cover the road.
41:56Let's move back and cover the road.
42:08Let's move back and cover the road.
42:10Let's go.
42:40Here they come.
43:10Here they come.
43:40All right, you guys get out of here.
43:58Of course, for you too, Denari.
43:59I'll take care of the fusions.
44:03Now, that's an order.
44:05I'll take care of the fusions.
44:11Let's go.
44:19The fuses are all set.
44:41Your breeches are going to make a pretty noise when it goes, Denari.
44:47Take the lieutenant back.
45:01The lieutenant back.
45:03Let's go.
45:07Let's go.
45:11Put that in.
45:19Put that in.
45:21Put that in.
45:31Put that in.
45:33Keep him busy.
45:35Not bad.
45:36I don't know, sir.
45:37Donetti's still back there.
45:38What about the charges?
45:39They're all set to go.
45:41I don't know, sir.
45:43Donetti's still back there.
45:45What about the charges?
45:46They're all set to go.
45:47Let's go.
45:48Let's go.
45:49Let's go.
45:50Let's go.
45:51Let's go.
45:52All right, let's get them out of here, McKenna.
46:22They're moving.
46:23Come on, come on.
46:52Come on.
46:54Let's go.
46:59Let's go.
47:00Let's go.
47:30the countryside south of the belarosa river has not yet felt the ravages of war
47:57this morning winter of the year 1944
48:00this morning at 0801 hours a great allied offensive began
48:27German defenders and heavy equipment their route of withdrawal cut off by the destruction of the
48:56bridge were trapped on the banks of the belarosa river and somewhere beneath these quiet waters
49:03is an unmarked grave of an italian patriot a man without whom this chapter of the bloody
49:09belarosa river campaign might never have been written
49:12the gallant men starring Robert McQueenie as Conley Wright
49:34William Reynolds as Captain Benedict Robert Ridgely as Lieutenant Kimbrough
49:40Richard X Slattery as Sergeant McKenna Eddie Fontaine as Private D'Angelo
49:47Roland Lestarza as Private Lukovic Robert Gothi as Private Hanson
49:53Roger Davis as Private Gibson
49:56THE END
50:26THE END
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