Lawrence Of Arabia Page #2

Yes.

From Cairo?

Yes.

-You did not ride from Cairo?

-No.

Thank heaven. It's 900 miles.

I came by boat.

And before?

From Britain?

Yes.

Truly?

From Oxfordshire.

Is that a desert country?

No. A fat country. Fat people.

You are not fat?

No.

I'm different.

Here...

take it.

First I take you to Lord Feisal,

then you give it to me.

Take it now.

Bedu food.

Good.

More?

-Bedu.

-Where?

From here to Lord Feisal's camp

is Harith country.

Yes, I know.

-I am not Harith.

-No.

Hazimi, of the Beni Salem.

Ah...

Put the right foot in tight.

Lock it with your left foot.

Then, when you are

ready to go,

hit her on the shoulder

and say, "Hut-hut-hut."

Hut-hut-hut!

Ah.

Today will be difficult,

but tomorrow, good riding.

I think we reach Masturah

Well tomorrow. Yes.

And from Masturah Well to Lord

Feisal's camp, one day more.

Now!

Good?

It's all right.

This is a Harith well.

The Harith are a dirty people.

Turks?

Bedu.

Who is he?

Tafas!

He is dead.

Yes.

Why?

This is my well.

I have drunk from it.

You are welcome.

He was my friend.

-That?

-Yes, that.

-This pistol yours?

-No, his.

His?

Mine.

Then I will use it.

Your friend...

was a Hazimi of the Beni Salem.

I know.

I am Ali ibn el Kharish.

I have heard of you.

So...

what was a Hazimi

doing here?

He was taking me

to help Prince Feisal.

-You have been sent from Cairo.

-Yes.

I have been in Cairo

for my schooling.

I can both read and write.

My Lord Feisal already

has an Englishman.

-Yes.

-What is your name?

My name is for my friends.

None of my friends

is a murderer.

You are angry, English.

He was nothing.

The well is everything.

The Hazimi may not drink

at our wells.

He knew that.

Salaam.

Hut-hut-hut.

Sherif Ali.

So long as the Arabs fight

tribe against tribe,

so long will they be

a little people,

a silly people.

Greedy, barbarous

and cruel, as you are.

Come.

I will take you to Feisal.

I do not want your

company, sherif.

Wadi Safra is another day

from here.

You will not find it, and

not finding it, you will die.

I will find it with this.

Good army compass.

How if I take it?

Then you would be a thief.

Have you no fear, English?

My fear is my concern.

Truly.

God be with you, English.

# As I walk along the

Bois de Boulogne #

# With an independent air #

# You can hear the girls declare #

# He must be a millionaire #

# You can

Rum-tee-tum-tee-tum-tee-tum #

# Tee-tummely-tum-tee-tum-tee-tum #

# I'm the man who broke the bank

At Monte Carlo #

Hey, you!

-I've been waiting for you.

-Did you know I was coming?

I knew someone was coming.

Feisal told me.

How did he know?

Not much happens within 50 miles

of Feisal that Feisal doesn't know.

I'll give him that. No escort?

My guide was killed

at the Masturah Well.

-Turks?

-No, an Arab.

Bloody savages.

-This is Wadi Safra, isn't it?

-Yes, they're over there.

Now, just a minute. What's

your name and who sent you?

Lawrence. I've been

seconded to the Arab Bureau.

Oh.

And what are you to do

for the Arab Bureau?

Well, it's rather vague, sir.

I'm to appreciate the situation.

Well, that won't be difficult.

The situation's bloody awful.

Their morale, if ever

they had any, which I doubt,

the Turks knocked out of them

in front of Medina, with howitzers.

They're fading away

by dozens every night.

What I want to say

to you is this:

That wherever you are

and whoever you are with,

you're a British-serving officer.

And here's an order.

When we get into that camp,

you're to keep your mouth shut.

Do you understand

what I'm saying?

Yes, sir. I understand

what you're saying.

You'll make your appreciation

and get back to...

Oh, my God.

Not again.

I've told him!

God knows I've told him.

"Move South," I've said.

"You're still in range."

They simply will not understand

what modern weapons do!

Stand and fight.

Stand and fight.

Fire back at them.

-Who are you?

-Lieutenant Lawrence, sir.

Seconded to the Arab Bureau.

This is a bloody mess, sir.

We'll have to move south.

Yes, yes, colonel,

You were right

and I was wrong.

We must take some

thought for the wounded.

Well, we can take care

of them at Yenbo, sir.

If they can get to Yenbo.

Well, they can hardly

come with us, sir.

No. They must try to reach Yenbo.

Lieutenant?

Lawrence.

You understand,

Lieutenant Lawrence,

my people are unused to

explosives and machines.

First the guns,

and now this.

Cigarette?

I'm sorry.

Hey.

Cigarette,

Your Excellency?

Umph off.

Please, Your Excellency.

Just one for two?

Hold it, Jenkins!

Jenkins! Jen...

Jenkins!

Aurens?

Aurens.

You have no servant.

-I don't need a servant.

-No?

We can do everything. Light fires,

cook food, wash clothes.

-Yes, everything.

-I don't doubt it.

-It will be very nice for you.

-I can't afford it.

Recite, then, as much of the Koran

as may be easy to you.

God knoweth that there be

some among you sick,

while others travel through the Earth

in quest for the bounties of God.

Others do battle

in his cause.

Recite, therefore,

as much as may be easy.

And observe the prayers.

This will be best and richest

in the recompense.

Seek ye the

forgiveness of God.

Verily, God is

forgiving, merciful...

Greetings, Ali.

-My lord.

-Sherif Ali.

Lieutenant Lawrence, you have

met Sherif Ali, I think.

Yes, my lord.

And now, Selim,

"The Brightness."

"By the noonday

brightness,

and by the night

when it darkeneth,

thy Lord hath

not forsaken thee,

neither hath he

been displeased."

"And surely the future shall be

better for thee than the past."

"And in the end shall your Lord

be bounteous to thee

and thou be satisfied."

So...

Yes, colonel.

-I want a decision, sir.

-You want me to fall back on Yenbo.

Well, you're not doing

much good here, sir.

I'm sorry to rub it in, sir,

but we can't supply you here.

You could supply

us through Aqaba.

Aqaba?

Well, if you can get ahold of Aqaba,

sir, of course we can supply you.

-But you can't.

-You could.

You mean the navy?

The Turks have 12-inch guns

at Aqaba, sir.

Can you imagine

what that means?

Yes, I can imagine.

Put that out of your mind, sir.

The navy's got other things to do.

Oh, yes. Protecting

the Suez Canal.

The one essential sector of this

front is and must be the canal.

You can see that,

sir, surely.

I see that the canal is

an essential British interest.

It is of little

consequence to us.

I must ask you

not to speak like that, sir.

British and Arab interests

are one and the same.

-Possibly.

-Ha!

Ha!

Upon my word, sir,

you're ungrateful.

Fall back on Yenbo and

we will give you equipment.

Give you arms, advice,

training, everything.

-Guns?

-A modern rifle for every man.

No. Guns. Artillery.

Guns like the Turkish guns

at Medina.

Yes, give us guns

and keep the training.

Your men need training

far more than guns, sir.

Hmph. The English will

teach the Bedu to fight?

We will teach them, Sherif Ali,

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