The Road to Glory Page #2

none of my business.

All I know is...

...he's the finest officer

in the army.

All right, Sergeant.

Ready for inspection, sir.

- Right.

You've been here before?

- Yes.

Is the shoulder well?

- Yes.

Glad to see you back.

- Thank you.

Take off your cap.

How old are you?

- 44, sir.

Real age?

- Please, Captain.

Bouffiou!

- Yes, sir.

Send this man back.

Yes, sir.

- I...

Your name?

- Dulac, Jean.

Number?

- 3.482.

Sorry.

Finest officer...

- Yes, Sergeant, yes, sir.

Soldiers of France...

...you are now members

of the Fifth Company...

...Second Battalion...

...of the 39th Regiment of the Line.

This regiment was created...

...by Bonaparte...

...and served gloriously with

him through many campaigns.

It also served...

...in the Crimea...

...in Indo-China and in Africa.

Since November, 1914...

...it's been fighting on this front.

Its record of valor...

...has not yet been damaged.

I do not expect any man...

...or any platoon or

an entire company...

...to add stature to that record...

...but I do and will require...

...that no man in it detract

from that record.

At midnight we move

up to the front.

Dismiss!

Yes, sir.

Company at ease...

...dismissed!

Will you shut up?

I'm sorry, I forgot.

If you've got to whistle,

give us the other tune.

Taking over.

I can't say I'm sorry.

- Anything new?

No, it feels like they're

getting ready.

Two raiding parties out already

tonight, after prisoners.

A bad break in the wire after...

- Wait, wait.

One of your men?

- Yes.

How long's he out?

- Since last night.

Why don't you bring him in?

Look over here.

Those bodies out there are

the men we sent after him.

They couldn't raise that gun

and put him out of his misery.

I'll be out of mine anyway.

I won't have to listen to him.

Good luck.

But I don't care! They let him

hang and suffer and suffer!

Tomorrow it may be any of us.

It may be me!

Tenshun!

As you were.

Lieutenant...

...what about that man?

I can't sleep.

- Shut up.

I prefer to die before hearing that.

- Wait a minute.

Two men can get him out.

You and who else?

I'll go.

And you want to go?

My brother died that way last

year in front of Souchez.

We listened to him two days

before a barrage came.

All right, come along...

...both of you.

Good luck.

Here.

But all I owe you is eight francs.

I'll expect the rest, later.

I'll be here.

- All right.

Over you go.

Stand to and cover these men.

Who is he?

- Denet sent after...

...that man on the wire.

- Fools.

Don't do that, sir.

Are you hit?

- I'm not, he is, in the leg.

I don't have to listen

to him any more.

Take him to the rear.

Lend a hand here.

You're a brave man, Denet...

...but you're a fool.

Take over...

...I'm going to the dugout.

Yes, sir.

Jacques...

...watch on here.

How many more days?

Five more.

Then we can get out.

In ten days you'll be getting ready

to get back up here again.

Sorry.

Can't you give us the other

one once in a while?

My mistake was by buying

the music box...

...that didn't have but

two tunes in it.

What did you buy that dumb

thing for anyhow?

It was very cheap.

You know what to do with that box?

- What?

Take a hand grenade...

...pull the pin, drop

it inside and run.

But it isn't paid yet for.

- Go on. Go to sleep.

Time for relief, Dupres.

- All right.

Rousseau.

- Yes.

Clement.

- Yes.

Lights out, everybody.

This place sure needs some perfume.

It seems to me we've got too

much perfume here already.

Yeah, but not the right king.

- Shut up.

Sergeant, come here, quick.

- What is it?

Down here, listen.

Do you hear it?

- Quiet.

What is it?

It's a mine, they're digging

right down below us.

They'll blow us all to pieces.

- Shut up!

Shut up!

Go and get the captain, quick.

- Right.

I'm getting out of here.

- Me too.

Quiet everybody, quiet!

What's it?

There's a mine.

- They're going to blow us up.

Why not? What do you think

you get paid five sous a day for?

Tenshun!

As you were. Where is it?

- Here.

Captain, what are we going to do?

Do?

- Do we go?

Go, where?

Into the next dugout or the next?

They're not trying to blow up us.

If the mine goes off, all of us go.

Suppose I do move you out.

How long would the Boche

take to discover it?

They wouldn't need their mine.

You're in no danger now because

you can hear them digging down.

They'll not blow up their own

sappers. Go on back to bed.

Say, Sergeant.

A double ration of rum all around.

- Yes, sir.

Lieutenant, can't you do something?

Can't you get us out of here?

- He told the truth.

Do we've to stay here?

- Until we're relieved.

What if it blows up before then?

You'll take us out of here?

- Easy.

We'll all get out...

...before it goes.

I certainly could use

some of this rum now.

Me too.

A week ago, before the raids...

...they'd blow up a lot more of us.

Yeah.

I suppose if we moved out now...

- Is just want they want us to do.

Move out.

They wouldn't need their mine.

They could walk right through.

Somebody's got to be here.

Hope it isn't us but it's

got to be somebody.

I...

...told the men that...

...I'd get them out before it goes off.

You told them?

I told them to stay.

You're the hero and I'm the murderer.

I'd like to tell them to get out.

Do you think I want them to blame me?

Be good enough to tell

me how you'll do it.

Look.

How are you going to be

able to get yourself out?

Your move.

I laugh when I think about them

Dutchman down there...

...digging all night long.

I laugh when I think of you and that

bread and cheese flying over France.

How many men you got here?

There's enough there. Sign that.

What is this?

Steel helmets.

They've just been issued.

How do you like them?

We're sitting over a mine...

...and they're sending us

steel helmets for our heads.

You're... What did you say?

They're digging a mine down there.

Say, give me that, I got

to get out of here.

Sergeant, a letter for you.

They've stopped digging!

Tell the men to stay at their posts.

- Yes, sir.

Listen.

They're digging again.

'Lf we don't get a payment on

your music box within a week...

...you'll find yourself in

a pretty serious situation.

Signed Hercules Bureau

of Collections'.

They should've been

here over an hour ago.

The relief is here, sir.

The relief is here, everybody

out. Now take it easy.

Captain, I'd just like to say that...

...I'd...

...like to apologize for the remark

about the numbers of replacements.

I didn't understand but I do now.

This company has a record of

services such as I never dreamed.

I'm very proud to be with you.

Thanks.

Come on, get going.

Keep moving. Come on.

Come on, come on.

Here's the relief company.

Close it up, men.

Keep going.

Close it up, men.

What's going on up there?

- You'll find out soon.

Quiet up there. Keep moving.

I don't know how they're going

to set it off but...

...I'm afraid it won't be long.

I left you with a wounded

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