Captains of the Clouds Page #5

I've been around the block.

Well, anyway, here it is:

It's a bank roll.

Never let it be said that MacLean walked

out on his wife and left her destitute.

- "Walked out"?

- Walked out.

Because of what you are and because

of what I am, we wouldn't last 20 minutes.

- But you married me.

- That's what it said on the certificate.

You dirty, low-down, good-for-nothing...

Oh, now, don't say those mean,

harsh things to your brand-new husband.

People might think

we're not getting along.

Goodbye.

Don't get absent-minded

and marry somebody else.

They have laws about that, you know.

So long, sweet.

Sweet fraud.

"Dunkirk evacuation miracle.

Hundreds of thousands

successfully retreat."

Let's have a look at that, old boy.

"Every type of vessel used

to evacuate our boys."

- Must be a mess.

- A mess?

- It's a great show.

- What an army they must have, huh?

They've spent all their time

and money on it for years.

I bet you they will lose.

He's just getting ready.

Then he will push them back

and push them back...

...and push them back

right into the ocean.

- Into the what?

- Into the ocean. The Pacific Ocean.

Well, that's gonna be a long push,

isn't it?

General Chiang Kai-shek can do it.

Oh, no, we are talking

about another war.

Oh, oh, yes. That one.

Yes, but don't you bother about it.

- Excuse me.

- That's quite all right.

I'm depressed.

Anybody got a cigarette?

- Yes. Everybody but you.

- Thanks.

On your feet, men.

- Brian.

- He is that pirate.

- How and where've you been?

- Up around Mistassini.

- You know MacLean.

- I've met him but I don't like him.

You should know how I don't like him.

Why do you say that?

I've always been very happy to see you.

Tiny never used to like me,

now he hates me.

- Willie.

- Hello. Happy landing.

Oh, come on and sit down.

Come on. Come on here.

Willie, we want four black coffees

and some cake.

- Make mine tea and charge it.

- It sure is good to see you.

- Now, where's Johnny?

- I don't know. I haven't seen him.

Thought you'd be helping run that airline.

No, I haven't seen him since Port Wilson.

I waited for him to come back with Emily

and marry her, but he didn't.

- I don't know where he is.

- He changed his mind.

- You interested in a proposition?

- Whose back teeth did you steal?

Now, now. Be big.

I've got a little contract pegged out,

flying a stand mill a piece at a time.

My plane isn't big enough

to handle the job...

...so if you wanna chip in a couple

of hundred bucks apiece...

...l'll swap my plane in for a secondhand

twin-motor job and...

A couple of hundred bucks.

Is there that much?

How should I know?

Well, last time I saw you, you had 4000.

The last time I saw you,

we both had 4000.

What happened to yours?

- How about you?

- I have no money, he's trying to borrow it.

You can't say I didn't try, can you?

- Sir?

- Coffee.

- Quiet, please.

- Even though...

... many large tracks of Europe...

... and many old and famous states

have fallen...

... or may fall

into the grip of the Gestapo...

... and all the odious apparatus

of Nazi rule...

...we shall not flag or fail.

We shall go on to the end.

We shall fight in France.

We shall fight on the seas and oceans.

We shall fight with growing confidence

and growing strength in the air.

We shall defend our island,

whatever the cost may be.

We shall fight on the beaches.

We shall fight on the landing grounds.

We shall fight in the fields

and in the streets.

We shall fight in the hills.

We shall never surrender.

And even if...

Which I do not for a moment believe.

- This island or any part of it...

... were subjugated and starving...

... then our empire beyond the seas...

... armed and guarded

by the British fleet...

... would carry on the struggle...

... until, in God's good time...

... the New World,

with all its power and might...

... steps forth to the rescue

and the liberation of the Old.

You have just heard the prime minister,

the Right Honorable Winston Churchill.

There's a man who knows

how to word an invitation.

I don't know how you feel...

...but I've taken a sudden dislike

to these clothes.

And as a matter of fact,

looking about me...

...I think we'd all benefit by a change.

Correct me if I'm wrong...

...but I seem to have heard something

about a government station at Uplands.

That's the rumor.

Well, what are we gonna do?

Waste the evening here?

Oh, Willie, got change for a watch?

I hold it for you. Happy landing.

- So long, Willie.

- So long.

- That's funny.

- What is it?

Four civilian aircrafts, sir,

as though they're coming in for a landing.

Tell those men

they're on the wrong part of field.

Yes, sir.

Give me the chief flying instructor,

please.

What? No band?

Or didn't you boys expect us?

Oh, hey, Blimp. Blimp.

Get a load of them machines.

They're thicker than mosquitoes

down at Three Mile Lake.

Give me one of them and a bottle of wine

and I finish the war.

And tell your mothers

you saw some fliers.

All right, men, don't crowd here.

Get to work.

Come on, Scrounger, get in formation.

Carry on.

What's the trouble?

What are these aircrafts doing here?

Dropped in

to see if you could use fliers.

Place to apply

is the nearest recruiting center.

You'd better take your aircraft

off this tarmac.

They're not in the way. Why...?

- Sergeant major.

- Sir?

If these aircrafts are not removed,

put these men under arrest for trespassing.

- Yes, sir.

- Trespassing?

- Now, look here, general, if you just ask...

- I'm not asking. I'm ordering.

You're interfering with our training.

- Hurry them up, sergeant major.

- Yes, sir.

- Hurry up.

- I thought that they wanted fliers.

They don't even seem interested.

Step into it. We got work to do.

Now, take it easy. I don't believe

you happen to know who we are.

You'll find out who we are

if you don't get going.

- Fyffe, get those planes off the field.

- Yes, sir.

Now, hurry up.

Get going. Get out of here.

That... That changes it.

That changes everything.

- Hurry it up. Hurry it up.

- Scrounger!

Get to work.

Don't send out your laundry.

We're not staying.

I see from your medical history sheets

that you're pretty fit.

I want a record of your flying hours,

if any.

I've had... I've had about four...

Just a moment, please.

One at a time. Mr. Prentiss?

Well, I've ridden in planes

as a passenger.

- Mr. Burton?

- Sixteen hours solo, sir.

- Mr. Harris?

- Four thousand three hundred and five.

Mr. Lebec?

About the same.

Four thousand four hundred.

- Mr. Murphy?

- Fifty-eight hundred.

- Mr. MacLean?

- Oh, 6000 or 6500.

You four are bush fliers, I take it.

That is what we have been told.

You'll have to start over again

just the same as the other recruits.

If you'll wait in the outer office, please.

Outside, rookie.

Mr. Bradley, Mr. Harris, Mr. Hunter,

Mr. Lebec, Mr. MacLean and Mr. Murphy.

- Will you step in here, please?

- Schicklgruber, here we come.

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