A Walk in the Sun Page #6

- There's a country, don't know its name.

- There's a million countries.

I can't think of their names.

- All right. I just asked. Forget it.

Ask Victor McLaglen. In the movies,

he's always fighting

that country around Tibet.

You kill me, just kill me.

Hey, Arch, look.

Two guys, 500 yards to the left,

I seen them.

- What are they?

Search me. Too far away.

Ward.

Two guys, 500 yards off to

the left. Take a couple of men.

Get down and see.

Johnson! Riddle!

- Take it easy.

Fan out.

Hit the dirt.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute. You speak English?

Oh, shut up. Come on.

A couple of Eye-ties.

Can they speak English?

- Not my kind.

Hey, Giorgio.

- Giorgio got wounded.

Yeah. What's the matter with me?

Tranella.

You want me, Sarge?

Can you talk Italian?

- Sure. I can talk Italian.

Talk to these guys.

What do I say?

- Ask them where they

come from, for Pete's sake.

Hey, Tranella.

He says he's from Turin.

Where's that?

- It's north. Way up north.

I don't mean that. Find out

where they're coming from now.

- Oh.

Where are you coming from now?

Oh, I mean...

He says there's a battle up there,

they were running away

from the battle.

They're no longer fighting.

- Ask them what's going on up there.

He says they were lying

along the road

and they saw the Germans

bringing up some tanks.

- When was this?

Says he's got no watch.

He's not sure. Maybe a couple of

hours. Maybe less.

For the love of Petronella, see what you

can find out. Ask him some questions.

- I am, Sergeant!

Find out something.

- Ask if he knows this country.

He's from the north

but he knows this country.

He was once stationed here.

- Good. Where's the map, Eddie?

- What map? Oh, it's here.

We have here a map of the area.

Tell him that, Tranella.

Says he knows all about maps,

he's a corporal.

We're about here, I think.

Ask him if I'm right.

He says that over there's

where the battle is and over

here's where he saw the tanks.

Is it bad country?

He says that...

he says that it's a good country for

defence, rough with a lot of ravines.

The young punk says it's dusty.

How many Germans?

Says he doesn't know how

many Germans are around.

- He must have said more than that.

Well, he says that they're beaten,

that they're no longer soldiers.

What did he say?

- The young punk

says he knocked off a Kraut.

Ask him where.

Hey, Tranella...

- Una momento, Sergeant...

Tranella, what are

you talking about now?

About Italy. He's from near

where my old man came from.

He says he didn't want the Germans,

but there was no choice.

These guys are looking for

a way out.

What do you know? My old man told

me that they've been fighting

the Germans since they came

and they're still fighting.

- OK. OK. OK.

What's he saying?

- He says now they can't go home, that

the Germans cover the north, like beetles.

He says there's a lot

the matter with Italy.

You're letting him tell us what's

the matter with Italy.

- My old man would like to know.

Let him read it in the papers.

I know what's the matter with Italy.

Find out about that hill

with the farmhouse on it.

This farmhouse here. Ask him

if he knows anything about it.

He says yeah.

Ask him what kind of bridge this is.

He says he don't remember.

Could be wood. It could be steel.

It could be concrete.

- A great help he is!

Ask him, does he know where

I can get a pizza.

- Shut up!

He says there's lots of Krauts

a few miles along.

- How many?

He says he hasn't got any idea.

We might as well go on.

- Might as well.

All right, men, get going.

Thanks, Tranella.

- Any time, Sarge.

Tell them they can go.

Hey, Sergeant, now they both want butts.

Give them a couple.

- Out of my own pack, for the love...!

- Give him a couple!

Hey, Sarge,

he says they're our prisoners

and they'll come along.

- Over my dead body.

Hey, Sarge, they don't want to go.

That's too bad.

Now the punks say they're hungry.

Give them some K-ration.

- They can take this.

When they eat that,

they'll wish Italy never

went out of the war.

They'll think twice about

the Americans next time.

- Hic!

That's a tough ticket,

but I've got to leave you.

What's the dope?

- They don't know anything.

We don't know any more than we did before.

- You expect to?

- They might have known something.

Slap-happiest people I ever saw.

"Dear Frances,

"just left a couple of Italian

soldiers standing in the road."

No, cross that out.

"Just left a couple of Italian

ex-soldiers standing in the road.

"Poor suckers.

They still don't know what hit them.

"And in a way, it's their own fault.

"They let themselves be sold a bill of goods

that they were going to boss the world.

"And now the guys that sold to them

have gone and they're left holding

the bag.

"Poor suckers. Right now, they

don't even own their own country."

Bill? You ever had a feeling that

something was going to happen to you?

- I have it all the time.

I've got it now.

- Don't worry about it.

I've never had it before.

I don't like it.

Something's happened to me.

- What?

I don't know. Can't figure it out.

It's not that I'm scared,

I know I'm not.

It's just that

I can't figure things out.

Look, if you have to,

will you take over?

I don't feel good.

Got a headache.

What are you going to do after the war?

- Join the mob, become a mobster.

What did you do before the war?

- Friedman, sixty million times you

asked me that. I was an undertaker.

I undertook stiffs.

- How'd you like the job?

- Made my hands smell.

Why don't you join the

grave registration squad at the QMC?

That's right up your alley.

I can't spell.

Hey, Justin...

...you look like a bright boy.

Why don't you join the graves

registration squad of the QMC?

How's the pay?

- Stinks.

- Any future in it?

What do you care? You ain't even

living in the present.

That's right, Jake, give a smart

apple, Jake, a reader of character.

What do you mean, I ain't

living in the present?

I'll ask him. Where are you now?

- Italy.

How do you know you're in Italy?

Have you seen any signposts

in Italian?

We just landed in Italy.

- How do you know you landed in Italy?

Just because somebody told you?

- I've just seen a couple of Italians.

In Tunisia, you seen a million Italians.

Is that Italy? No, it's Tunisia.

You're ignorant, Justin.

All right.

If we're not in Italy, where are we?

Sunny France, marching to Armentieres.

Where do you think we was?

Italy.

- I give up.

So do I.

I want to get out of this man's Army.

- Me, too. Move over.

Hit the dirt!

Hey, look, it's a jeep!

- It's our guys!

Where you from?

We're reconnaissance.

Seen anything around here?

- Not so far.

What's your mission?

- Objective is some high ground with a

farmhouse on it, three miles up the road.

Anything up there?

- Wish I knew.

Want me to run up and see?

- Be nice if you'd scout a couple of miles.

Take a lot off my mind, anyway.

OK. It's the first time I've been

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