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War correspondent Conley Wright takes a break from covering action on the front lines in order to investigate an intriguing cloak-and-dagger operation.
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01:00Italy, winter, 1944.
01:22Another stop along the way, another villa on the road to Rome.
01:27But is this just another villa?
01:32Joseph L. Fernie, officer, serial number 0244672.
01:37For him to have died here, behind enemy lines,
01:40on the same day the Allied forces were landing on the beaches at Salerno,
01:44who was he?
01:45And most intriguing, what did his death have to do with that invasion?
01:49My father, my grandfather, my great-grandfather.
01:55They are all buried here.
01:58Joseph L. Fernie, serial number 0244672.
02:03Husband, brother, friend?
02:06Yesterday, there was a German.
02:13Today, you are here.
02:16Tomorrow, the Germans again, perhaps.
02:18Will there be another aid just for the Italians, senor?
02:22Right. Conley Wright, Contessa.
02:25I'm a war correspondent, reporter.
02:26That is quite a talent.
02:30What can I say about him?
02:32I know his name, serial number, and that he was an officer.
02:36What was he doing here?
02:39How did he die?
02:41Let the dead stay dead.
02:44It's in your right.
02:44There is no Joseph L. Fernie, serial number 0244672.
02:59Mr. Wright?
02:59So you said the War Department said.
03:01Repeat.
03:02And military intelligence.
03:04Repeat.
03:04That makes you redundant.
03:07I know the when and the where.
03:10Now I'm asking who, what, and why.
03:12Back on that September, before the Allied invasion, behind enemy lines.
03:19It's a very interesting question, Mr. Wright.
03:23Can I quote you on my collar, Major Nemo?
03:26The only quotes in this war come from the Supreme Commander.
03:30That lets you out, doesn't it?
03:31True.
03:32May I?
03:34Why?
03:35Just call it a souvenir.
03:37Souvenir, of course.
03:42I mean, this guy was here before we ever set foot on the beach at Salerno.
03:54Who was he?
03:55How did he get here?
03:56Conley, I don't know.
03:57All I know is I've got to move a couple of you men from here to here, and you don't stop
03:59the war to check out every dog tag.
04:01This isn't an ordinary dog tag.
04:02I've been down to the town talking to the mayor and some of the townspeople.
04:05Hey, Conley, if I don't listen, you're going to tell me anyway, so go ahead.
04:08The Hermann Goering 15th Panzer Division, under a General Kyle, held down this entire
04:12area before we landed at Salerno.
04:14Check.
04:14Three days before the landing, a Major Newman, one of Kyle's aides, came here to the villa.
04:20Obviously, in the midst of all this, he was here.
04:22Why obviously?
04:24Salerno.
04:26Code A for avalanche.
04:27It was September 9th.
04:28The date on the coffin indicates he died September 9th.
04:30He couldn't have been here and at Salerno at the same time.
04:32There was an incident in one of the Italian airfields.
04:35The same Major Newman was wounded.
04:37Later, he was taken prisoner by the Allies.
04:39He's still recuperating in an Allied hospital in Naples.
04:47To enjoy the freedom of capture.
04:52To be out of the war.
04:56To know one will be fed.
04:58To sleep whence nights is blissful peace.
05:02That is a luxury almost too beautiful to contemplate.
05:09This mean anything to you?
05:12A dog tag?
05:13Not just a dog tag.
05:15A particular dog tag.
05:17Joseph Alferni.
05:21Nine.
05:22All right.
05:26Let's try it twice.
05:29The Contessa Lorraine.
05:32Ah, the Contessa.
05:36Charming creature.
05:38Very charming.
05:39How charming is charming.
05:43Unpredictable.
05:45Her loyalty is like a feather in a windstorm.
05:50Floating with every turn of the tide.
05:54Major, you were ordered to seal off the villa.
05:56What did you have to do with the counters?
05:59The villa.
06:00Why?
06:02That night, there was this plane.
06:06What night?
06:08September.
06:10September 2nd.
06:11It had been flying off the coast of Naples.
06:14It went down here, General Keeley.
06:39The Coast Patrol watched it crash just offshore last night.
06:42Two majors, one colonel, one lieutenant general.
06:48Did you say Neumann?
06:49Dead.
06:49Everyone dead.
06:50The plane shot down.
06:53Yep.
06:55The documents found on the dead American officers are genuine, head general.
06:58There's no doubt.
06:59You're sure?
07:00We have checked the paper.
07:01We have checked the ink.
07:02We have checked the signatures.
07:03On general.
07:05What?
07:06There's a plane left from a field in North Africa.
07:09How do you know?
07:10Markings on intelligence reports.
07:13Everything indicates the plane left from a field in North Africa.
07:16The 1204th bomber group.
07:22From North Africa, Neumann.
07:24The sands and the deserts do not hide their secrets too well, do they, Neumann?
07:29It's almost too astonishing, Neumann.
07:35Americans are not that bold.
07:37But the documents found on the plane, Herr General.
07:40To plan to have Eisenhower come here to Italy to meet with Padoglu's government?
07:45For Padoglu to surrender Italy to the Allies?
07:48To risk the life of a man like Eisenhower and such a mission?
07:52Do the Italians think we will let them surrender to the Allies?
07:57Do they think because Mussolini is no longer in power it gives them a freedom of choice?
08:02Preposterous.
08:09True, Herr General.
08:11But the dead American emissaries speak stronger to...
08:14Fantastic!
08:16If what the papers say is true,
08:19And Petra is making the arrangements.
08:25And Eisenhower is really coming
08:27To meet secretly with Padoglu.
08:31But Petra did leave his hotel in Gaeta three days ago
08:34And turned up in Velli
08:36To take over the Contessa Lorenzvilla.
08:40A Contessa Lorenzvilla would make for a convenient
08:43Unsuspecting rendezvous, would it not, Major?
08:46Hmm?
08:48To save time.
08:49I did invite the Contessa.
08:52She is now waiting outside.
08:55You will go far in this war, Norman.
09:00I serve you, Herr General.
09:03And the Fuhrer.
09:19Thank you, if you please, Contessa.
09:20Thank you, General Kille.
09:24How nice to see you.
09:27And how nice of you to come.
09:29Duty, my dear General, duty.
09:32Not just a touch of patriotism.
09:34If patriotism makes you happy, my dear General, then patriotism.
09:40Do sit down, Contessa.
09:43We were most fortunate to come upon this in our visit to France.
09:52Napoleon's own personal seal on every bottle.
09:55You Germans will get to become connoisseur of most everything before the war ends.
10:00At the present moment, Senor Hugo Petra is most of everything to me.
10:05And you do have a way of knowing most all of everything, have you not, General?
10:14Contessa, you said yourself with Germans are rapidly becoming such connoisseurs of everything.
10:19You arrived at your villa three days ago?
10:23Not the hour, the minute, the second.
10:26Tell us about Hugo Petra.
10:30Terribly handsome.
10:33Terribly charming.
10:37Terribly persuasive.
10:41Hugo Petra very quietly, very simply arrived,
10:44and with proper authorization, signed by Premier Baroglio, took over my villa.
10:51For how long?
10:52He said he would be staying for seven days.
10:56Three from seven leaves four.
11:02Four more days, Contessa.
11:07Four more days, Contessa.
11:10You will forget you came here.
11:12You will go back to your villa.
11:14You will say nothing to your Rugo Petra.
11:17And you will go on living your life as usual.
11:20Four more days, Contessa.
11:22Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, my dear General.
11:29For the next 2,000 years, Contessa.
11:32So pleasant to see you.
11:39My compliments to Napoleon.
11:41Major.
11:42Ah, buongiorno, senor generale.
11:52I believe you've forgotten something, senor Petra.
11:57Can you tell me what?
12:00Heil Hitler.
12:02Oh, no, no.
12:04I'm sorry.
12:05I'm sorry.
12:06I'm sorry.
12:07I'm sorry.
12:08I'm sorry.
12:09What?
12:10Heil Hitler.
12:12Oh, scusi.
12:13Heil Hitler.
12:15You see, I was awakened at such an early hour,
12:18and under such unexpected circumstances.
12:24Coffee, senor Petra?
12:26Grazie, no.
12:29Senore Petra,
12:32if I were to tell you
12:35that I am in possession of certain information,
12:38and I have reason to believe
12:40that you're in possession of certain other information,
12:43what would you say?
12:45Well, I would say, uh,
12:48what information?
12:51Well, to start with,
12:56the sending receiving transmitter in your bedroom.
12:59Odd for a man to carry about
13:01who's supposedly on vacation, is it not, senor Petra?
13:05No, no, it's a hobby of mine.
13:08Such as communicating with Rome,
13:11or the American command, perhaps.
13:14Senor Generali,
13:17Italy is at war.
13:19The Allied forces are our enemies.
13:21Yes.
13:22But in four days,
13:25to be precise, September the 9th,
13:28such a statement might be in the past tense,
13:30might it not be senor Petra.
13:33And then the German Reich would be your enemy.
13:36Would we not, senor?
13:39Senor Generali,
13:42first you have me awakened at this impossible hour,
13:45and next you suggest that I am a traitor.
13:47And I further suggest, senor Petra,
13:50that you are here
13:52to prepare a meeting
13:54between General Eisenhower and Premier Badoglio,
13:59to discuss Italian surrender to the Allies,
14:03here at this villa.
14:07And he will arrive by plane.
14:10And now, senor Petra,
14:13about that certain other information.
14:17I am, by nature,
14:19a passive man, senori.
14:22I abhor violence.
14:25When will the General Eisenhower land?
14:38I must have told you, Generali,
14:40that by nature I am much more
14:41than merely just a passive man.
14:43I am a purist,
14:45and a realist, if you will.
14:47And that makes me a coward.
14:54General Eisenhower will land,
14:57by plane,
14:59at the Italian Air Force field
15:01outside the town of Verley,
15:03on September the 9th.
15:05You are such a wise coward, senor.
15:12Prego.
15:26Major, about your being wounded.
15:28A pleasure, mister.
15:29Mr. Wright, to be wounded.
15:31To lose consciousness.
15:34To awaken again in a hospital, alive.
15:37And the prisoner of war, I am happy to say.
15:41I'll take him back, Mr. Wright.
15:43I'd like a few more minutes, if I may.
15:45Oh, I'm sorry, but it's time for his treatment,
15:47and the doctor's waiting.
15:48Another time, Mr. Wright.
15:50I'm not going anywhere for the rest of the war.
15:53Auf Wiedersehen.
15:55Auf Wiedersehen.
15:56Ha, ha, ha, ha!
16:11I don't know.
16:41Well, if we don't have the man that fights the battle of words
16:47You out looking for a story, or out on the town?
16:51I'm always interested in a good story
16:52Joseph L. Fernie, serial number 0244672
16:59Friend of yours, Pally?
17:03Maybe you know somebody who knows him
17:05You've got to be careful these days, Pally
17:08You don't know who's G2
17:10But I got my ear in space
17:14I can hear things other people don't hear
17:18Like what?
17:20Whisper, Joe, I won't tell a living soul, I promise
17:23Sure you won't, Pally
17:25I'm listening, Joe
17:26Well, what I hear is
17:32You're looking to write up an obituary
17:33I write a lot of those, Joe
17:35You got the wrong boy this time, Pally
17:38It's always the wrong boy, Joe
17:40Then trade him at all, Dad, for a live one
17:43Are you asking me or telling me?
17:49Take your choice, Pally
17:50And if I don't?
17:51Well, Joe, the next step is to find somebody from the 1204th bomber
17:57Group, who saw that plane take off
17:59Who saw that plane take off?
18:00Oh, he's not for sale
18:01Oh, he's not for sale
18:04Oh, he's not for sale
18:06But for you, signore
18:07I will give him to you
18:09Well, Joe, the next step is to find somebody from the 1204th bomber group
18:22Who saw that plane take off
18:24What'd you say your name was again?
18:37Conley Wright
18:38And what was it you ought to see me about?
18:41You were stationed up that airfield in North Africa
18:43Before you were transferred here
18:45Whitley
18:46Foggia
18:47Yeah
18:48Well, you knew about that B-17 you saw it take off
18:52Well, I didn't do nothing wrong
18:55No, it was just part of my job, Sargon
18:57Anyway, you were there
18:59Yeah
19:00It was a Nazi fagin' thing
19:04I mean, loony, you know what I mean?
19:07I just checked into the field
19:09Who knew where what was?
19:11I didn't know whether I was on a base or off the base
19:14I didn't know what was going on
19:15All I know is
19:17Is I seen these two G.I.s
19:19And these two G.I.s, they had this machine gun
19:23They were shootin' on one of our planes
19:28There they were
19:34It was like I said
19:36Real Nazi fagin
19:37Loony
19:38These two G.I.s with this machine gun
19:41And me
19:41And I wanted out, quick
19:43Right then
19:44Then all of a sudden
19:46This truck shows up
19:47It stopped by the plane
19:59And a bunch of guys jump out
20:00And then
20:00They start takin' these other guys out of the truck
20:02And liftin' them into the plane
20:04Other guys? Who?
20:05Who?
20:06Who?
20:07Zombies!
20:07That's who
20:08I get this feelin'
20:10That what I'm seein'
20:11Isn't for real
20:12But there's somethin' real spooky goin' on
20:15And I don't want none of it rubbin' off on me
20:17Then this jeep shows up with these two jokers
20:24And there I am trapped again
20:25What two jokers?
20:28What two jokers?
20:30You don't believe what I see
20:31One of them's an officer
20:33He looks like an officer
20:35He's dressed like an officer
20:36What do you mean?
20:37What do I mean?
20:39This other clown
20:40So help me, Mr. Connolly
20:42He's in swimmin' trunks
20:44And then what happened?
20:46Nothin'
20:47These two jokers get into the plane
20:49And I'm layin' back there
20:51Countin' my heartbeats
20:52So
20:57So
21:06So
21:09Let's go.
21:39I'm telling you, buddy, it was that weird.
21:52I see it, but I don't believe it.
21:57I keep dreaming about it.
21:59Like it really didn't happen, you know?
22:02But it did.
22:03You saw it.
22:06I'm only saying I saw it.
22:09Maybe I really didn't.
22:12Nazi failure.
22:14Loony.
22:15You read it right, you're done.
22:24What do you know about him?
22:25What's the story?
22:28What's the story?
22:40The story?
22:41How about one of these stories, senora?
22:45Any one.
22:46Which one?
22:47This one?
22:47The night that we blow up at the ammunition depot.
22:57Barney D.
22:58He says he's coming from, uh, Georgia.
23:03You are.
23:06You know something?
23:10When he was dying, he didn't even lose one tear.
23:14Not even one Mamma Mia.
23:16But the rest of them, it was fast.
23:21That's all.
23:24I was hoping you knew something about this dog tag.
23:28This dog tag.
23:29This dog tag.
23:30What's the difference?
23:30These are names.
23:32Names that I hear, I forget them.
23:33Senora, there are so many outside.
23:35So many of them, senora.
23:37All right, all right.
23:38All right.
23:38What about planes?
23:44Ah, what about planes?
23:47Like a B-17 that crashed just off the coast in the night.
23:51Like the night of September 2nd.
23:55That plane today.
23:57Did anybody see it go down?
23:59Crash?
24:08Oh, my God.
24:38Hey, here we go.
24:58Go.
24:59Oh, my God.
25:06Oh, my God.
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27:46GETTING
27:47UH
27:49FAUNT
27:50LIBERTA
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28:08CRACK
28:09SLAP
28:10This was, in your right, I'm in the habit of only toasting departures.
28:21Me, Countess, I sort of go for homecomings.
28:23But then to you, yours, me, mine.
28:30Delicious.
28:31You did not live with the others.
28:33No. It has something to do with genes, chromosomes, heredity.
28:37I'm difficult to get rid of when I want to get close to something.
28:41You took the dog tag.
28:46I already told you, signorite.
28:48Tell me again, Countess, this time about Hugo Petra.
28:56So terribly handsome.
28:58So terribly charming.
29:03So terribly persuasive.
29:06But please, Countess!
29:09What am I, a slave?
29:10First the Germans and my own people, they come, they take possession of my land, my property.
29:15What does who want next?
29:17But Countess, a premier, Marichal Badoglio.
29:21Badoglio, Badoglio.
29:22His commander, his commander, his signature, ordering to grant senior Petra any and all privileges to his office.
29:29This is our government.
29:30This is our government.
29:32We must obey.
29:33No!
29:36All privileges I will not grant.
29:38I assure you, I do not wish to abuse.
29:52I promise I shall not be a burden to you.
29:55I only wish to borrow your villa for a few days.
29:59It is my orders.
30:00And in order to carry out my orders, I must have temporary possession of your villa.
30:06For seven days only.
30:07After that, I will leave you, and your villa, and your village very much honored.
30:14In what way honored, signor Petra?
30:17Oh, my dear Countess, for the moment, we must have a few secrets from each other, eh?
30:22Ebenito.
30:26Está bene.
30:27And now, perhaps you would like to show me to my room?
30:35Va bene.
30:36Grazie.
30:37He had the credentials.
30:42The mayor gave him the town, and I had a guest.
30:46For seven days, he said.
30:55Si?
30:55La Contessa.
31:03Un momento, per favore.
31:16Avanti.
31:19Ah, allora.
31:22E' bello sapere essa.
31:25A cognac.
31:28Si?
31:31You...
31:32You cannot sleep, perhaps.
31:37Something like that.
31:39Ah, in these times.
31:41All the world is awake, waiting for the day when perhaps they can sleep again in peace.
31:48Will it ever be?
31:54You saw the Germans today.
31:57You know, they sent for me what choice?
32:01And you have come here tonight to...
32:04to warn me, or to betray me.
32:08Which, eh?
32:13Ah, you are the perfect one for them.
32:15You have every accomplishment to...
32:20to make a man talk when perhaps he thinks he is saying nothing.
32:25Survival?
32:30Yes, of course. Survival.
32:38I smell the perfume.
32:40I've been here not several days since.
32:48It is only now that I smell the perfume.
32:52How does one know which sight means survival?
32:59You are very beautiful tonight.
33:01What?
33:03It is the perfume...
33:06blinding you.
33:09It does not have to be the Germans to mean survival.
33:14Help me to believe that.
33:16Help me to believe that.
33:18Help me to believe that.
33:31Joseph L. Fernie, Contessa.
33:36Serial number 0244672.
33:38Would you agree that he and Hugo Petra
33:40have something very much in common?
33:42What is that?
33:54You want to free up?
33:58You do not give up so easily, Mr. Wright.
34:01Do I know you?
34:02Ah, Pally. Want to buy a puppet?
34:07You are quite a man of talent.
34:10Ventriloquist, puppeteer, man of many disguises.
34:12What do you do in your spare time?
34:14Sometimes spend my life convincing people.
34:17Like war correspondents?
34:18You could be right.
34:20I am not interested in spreading rumors.
34:21I am merely interested in gathering the news.
34:24Well, not all news is fit the print. No grazie.
34:26Tell me, did you tear out the pages on freedom of the press from your book, Pally?
34:33Shall we say a half distorted truth can be far more dangerous than a whole real truth?
34:40Why not try convincing me?
34:42Like the night at that airfield when that plane took off.
34:47You do it the hard way, don't you, Mr. Wright?
34:56You sure do things the hard way, don't you, old buddy?
35:01Just because you didn't dream this up, don't knock it, Pally.
35:05You owe me money. I am only looking to protect my ownership.
35:08Sure, sure.
35:12Passengers aboard, Corporal?
35:13All aboard.
35:14And good luck, sir.
35:19Well, here's your cargo, Pally.
35:21VIPs every one and worth their weight in gold.
35:23They look like dead weight to me.
35:25Herr Major Werner, Herr Major Schmidt.
35:28To Hitler's finest.
35:29Oh, wie geht's der, boys?
35:31Oh, that's Oberst Krauss and General Leutnant Hoff.
35:33General Leutnant Hoff?
35:35Well, we'll just change his name to Lieutenant General Smith
35:38and give him some documents and family snapshots to make it look convincing.
35:42A nice sentimental touch.
35:44And the two boys up front are Luftwaffe pilots.
35:47They were a pretty good bomber crew, but they make up better as American officers.
35:50Where'd you get those nice boys there?
35:51He shot them down over Sicily yesterday.
35:54Good shooting, good shooting.
35:55Yes, I know all about it.
35:56Come on, come on. Give me the flight plan.
35:58The flight plan.
35:59The flight plan.
36:00I take off in exactly three minutes.
36:02I fly in an altitude of 15,000 feet at a speed of 200 miles per hour, taking a course of north by northeast till I reach the coast of Italy, at which point I take a course of due north till I reach the Bay of Gaeta, at which point I ditch mine ship and I say I'll get his name to mine charming companions here, right?
36:19You're right.
36:20You're right.
36:21Even in death their most shining hour, their moment of glory.
36:26Well, could I share this wonderful moment with you?
36:28You want to share this wonderful moment with me, huh?
36:30You like this kind of work, huh?
36:32I had an uncle who worked for an embalmer before he got drafted.
36:35He liked this kind of work too.
36:36Now, giving him a job like that, I can understand, but giving him a job like yours, professor of the Romance languages.
36:42Sad but true.
36:43You see, I'm a ham at heart.
36:46And when OSS promised that all the war would be a stage.
36:49All the war would be a stage?
36:50Oh, yeah.
36:51It got me right here.
36:55Well, old buddy, bon voyage.
37:01Hey, don't forget you owe me some money.
37:05Well, sue me, Pally.
37:13Sue me, Pally, he said.
37:15But my problem was, how do you sue a debt man?
37:17So, to protect my investment, I parachuted in behind the lines just in time to help spring the trap for Operation Avalanche.
37:24Once more, American naval gunfire. Why is it shelling the coast of Salerno?
37:38Once more, my dear generale, I tell you that I do not know. I only know what my orders are and those you already know.
37:45And believe me, I am not suicide prone, eh?
37:48Today is the date for the rendezvous.
37:50Today is the date, September the 9th, yes.
37:53At this villa?
37:54At this villa.
37:55If, of course, I give the proper all-clear signal at 9.30.
37:59Neumann.
38:00What time is it?
38:019.15, Herr Genard.
38:04Hauptmann Rauch?
38:05The Waller Genard.
38:06You will telephone headquarters. You will speak directly to Phil Marshal Frings.
38:12You will tell him that I order the 15th Panzer to remain where it is until further notice.
38:16The division is not to be moved to Salerno.
38:18To be fair, Genard.
38:19So, they would wish to draw our attention away from the main target.
38:25They would wish us to rush the full strength of our armoured infantry at the sound of a few cap-pistols firings.
38:32Herr Petra, exactly at 9.30, you will send the old clear signal.
38:42You will tell your people that they have their wish.
38:45That their meeting places are serene and innocent as a park and an afternoon picnic.
38:51After that, Herr Major Neumann and a squad of men will escort you to the airfield,
38:56where you will present your credentials in Premier Padoglio's name to the Commandant.
39:01You will order all Italian planes grounded.
39:04Excuse me, General, but the General Eisenhower will be landing in a plane with Italian markings.
39:09It will not be necessary to ground the Italians.
39:11We have already confiscated all of their fuel for use with the Luftwaffe.
39:14Well, that's good.
39:16These Italians are so nervous these days.
39:20They could shoot at sight.
39:23Even their own planes.
39:26I want the General to land safely, alive!
39:30Of course, of course.
39:31And now, perhaps you would allow me to make the proper arrangements, sir.
39:40Davidempor Pat, uh, all theatan's.
39:42Great!
40:02How can I keep my fighter planes in the air when your Luftwaffe keeps all the fuel?
40:08Colonel D'Ambrosio, the Luftwaffe will replenish your fuel supply, I promise you.
40:12What is more important is this.
40:24Signor Maggiore, I'm at your command.
40:28You will please arrest this man.
40:32Frater.
40:33He is a traitor.
40:34He is with Badoglio.
40:35He plans to take Italy out of the war.
40:36Arrest this man.
40:37LibertĂ !
40:38Liberazione!
40:41Viva Badoglio!
40:42Did you hear what I said?
40:43He is a traitor to his country!
40:45Liberazione!
40:46Viva Badoglio!
40:47Abbaso con i tedeschi!
40:49Sergio!
40:50LibertĂ !
40:51Liberazione!
40:53Picoava!
41:02Arrest!
41:03Arrest!
41:04The
41:24No, you must not, please go.
41:43Go, please go, not here.
41:46I have no choice, Contessa.
41:49I have nowhere else to go.
41:51You'll please call it after, no?
41:54Signor Petra.
42:04Buenas sera, Signor Generale.
42:08Buenas sera, Signor.
42:12This, uh, this must make you very happy, no?
42:17For your information, it is official that Hugo Petra has been found dead.
42:28Do not blame la Signora Contessa.
42:36That must be quite a price.
42:38We're all quite the price, Signor.
42:41For your information, you're merely wounded.
42:45As for myself, let me tell you for your information.
42:51For your information, it is official that the Allied forces have landed at the beach of Salerno.
42:56For your information, Signor, I have been a victim of false belief, or call it drive for ambition.
43:05She said you were persuasive, I listened, I believed.
43:08German corpses, dressed as American officers, flown in an American plane, riddled with German bullets, ditched into the sea.
43:17Eisenhower to rendezvous with Bodoglio for the surrender of Italy.
43:23You fooled me.
43:25I believed your magnificent hoax.
43:28And all the time, I had all the power in my hand.
43:32My Panzer Division.
43:36And I let it die, when it might have turned Allied victory into defeat at Salerno.
43:41But as you said, as a realist, there is reality to face.
43:49There are the heroes and the cowards.
43:53Killing you will not make me any less a hero or a coward, Signor.
43:59For your information, my fate is already fixed.
44:03My superiors will say nothing.
44:06They will merely point a loaded gun at me.
44:08And then, Signor, finita la comedia.
44:22You may quote me, Signor.
44:24I'm doing this for my country and my fury.
44:27I'll make you a rip.
44:37Hey.
44:38Huh?
44:41You know everything.
44:43And the word must be on on you.
44:45You must be hot.
44:46What are we going to do with this body?
44:49The crypt.
44:50There is a coffin.
44:52Let him have his peace.
44:57Come here, sir.
45:11Put these on the coffin.
45:13If anybody asks you, you tell them that an American flyer was shot down behind the lights.
45:19But he died before you could call anyone.
45:22You need a doctor, Pally.
45:24In a minute.
45:28Ragazzi, facciamo presto, va.
45:30Vieni.
45:31In a minute.
45:32You knew about me all along, didn't you?
45:44As you once told me.
45:50Let us have some secrets from each other.
45:54Let's go, Pally.
45:55Wait.
46:08Some other day.
46:12Some other night.
46:14Si.
46:25Ciao.
46:26And essa.
46:42Arrivederci.
46:43Near Joseph L. Fernie.
46:54Not necessarily.
46:56Then it's the man in the swimming trunks.
46:58In the words of Major Nemo, Mr. Wright, there is no Joseph L. Fernie.
47:05And as I told Major Nemo, that makes you redundant.
47:10Well, if you ever do run into Joseph L. Fernie, wish him luck.
47:18I will.
47:20If I ever see him.
47:23I guess not all news is fit to print.
47:26It's like you said, Contessa.
47:28Let the dead stay dead.
47:30Arrivederci.
47:31Ciao.
47:33Arrivederci.
47:34And so you wonder, Joseph L. Fernie, is it just a name of one man, or is he any man who goes risking his life behind the enemy's lines, turning up any place at any time as anyone?
47:51You wonder.
47:52And so you wonder.
47:53Joseph L. Fernie, is it just a name of one man, or is he any man who goes risking his life behind the enemy's lines, turning up any place at any time as anyone?
48:05You wonder.
48:06And so you see him?
48:08How about him?
48:09Over here?
48:10How about him?
48:11Preferably?
48:12How about him?
48:14Let's go, Adolf.
48:16Move it.
48:18Mark next door...
48:24… damn...
48:25Atlantic wind you...
48:27The Odyssey would probably go next.
48:29I will never have done nothing.
48:30Allie?
48:32Let's go, Adolph. Move it.
48:34Max Schnell, Max Schnell.
48:36Sure, you wonder.
48:40You wonder.
48:42But one thing is certain.
48:44On September 9, 1943, the American army invaded the beach at Salerno.
48:50It was a bitter struggle with many casualties before we won the day.
48:54But how many more casualties, maybe even my own,
48:58like there have been if the Hermann Goering 15th Panzer Division,
49:02General Kyle commanding,
49:04had not been cooling its heels outside the little town of Vela,
49:08waiting for a rendezvous that was never scheduled to happen.
49:12The Gallant Men, starring Robert McQueenie as Conley Wright,
49:32William Reynolds as Captain Benedict,
49:36Robert Ridgely as Lieutenant Kimbrough,
49:39Richard X. Slattery as Sergeant McKenna,
49:42Eddie Fontaine as Private D'Angelo,
49:45Roland Lestarza as Private Lukovic,
49:48Robert Gauthier as Private Hanson,
49:50Robert Gauthier as Private Hanson,
49:52Roger Davis as Private Gibson.
49:54Here we go.
49:56Here we go.
50:24Here we go.
50:26Here, here we go.
50:28Through the
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