What Price Glory Page #6

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- Officer? He's a colonel.

A colonel. Colonel, am I glad

to see you.

Let's go, Colonel.

Come on. Let's move, Colonel.

Come on, Colonel. Let's go.

- The colonel ain't going.

- Why couldn't it have been you?

Oh, no.

- Hey, Flagg!

- What?

- I'm wounded.

- You what?

- I got hit.

- Why, you dirty...

Wouldn't you give

a million bucks for that?

Ain't that the prettiest

little punch you ever saw?

In and out without

touching the bone.

- You crook! You stuck

your leg out on purpose.

- I never did, Captain.

- You know you did!

- Come on, Flagg. I got a date with a lady.

Oh, you...

Oh, a casualty.

- Everything all right, Cunningham?

- Yes, sir.

Except some general has been

calling about a German officer.

Wants to know if we got one.

Well, tell him if he calls again,

we got some, but they're all dead.

- Hmm, bb guns, Captain?

- Didy pins.

- Vaccination.

- It'll be a miracle if he ever recovers.

I suppose you think you're gonna

go back to Bar-le-Duc.

Holsen, tell him there's nothing

the matter with him.

He doesn't have to go back

to the base hospital.

Tell him you can fix him up right here.

Go on, tell him.

- You been crawling in the mud with this?

- You bet your sweet life.

- Can you walk?

- That depends on what I see.

You don't mean to tell me

you're gonna send him back?

This man's got to

get out of here, Captain Flagg.

Sergeant, get over to sick bay at once,

get a tetanus shot, then get out of here.

This is breaking my heart!

But duty calls.

Oh, it brings tears to my eyes...

to say farewell to

my old company commander.

I don't see how

I can go through with it.

- You better make it snappy,

or that door'll be locked.

- What door?

- Charmaine's.

- Are you wounded too, Captain Flagg?

No, but inside of 10 minutes, I'll be

wounded, bumped off or have that officer.

Do me a favor, will you? Get yourself

killed just once. Just to please me.

Well, as we say in France,

au revoir. Oh!

Captain Flagg,

how about some company?

The air by that railroad embankment

is full of flying steel.

- A green man wouldn't have a chance.

- Are you going?

- I got personal and private reasons.

- If you're going, that suits me.

- Can you crawl on your belly?

- Captain, I've been crawling

under trains for five years.

I was a locomotive engineer on

the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabam.

You oughta see

a few railroad wrecks.

I had three engines

shot out from under me last year.

- Cunningham, I think you'll do.

- You know I'll do.

- Captain Flagg, I've got one!

I've got a German officer.

- Let's have a look.

Throw some light on him.

Well, let's have a look. Well...

Boys, boys,

a German lieutenant.

He didn't wait for us to

go get him. He came on over.

You are the sweetest thing

I've seen since Charmaine.

Kiper. Kiper,

take good care of him for me.

And whatever you do,

don't frighten him to death.

He's our ticket of leave.

We're going home.

- Easy, easy! Easy.

- Come on, honey. Come on.

Lewisohn. Lewisohn, I'm gonna see to it

that you're decorated for this.

And I insist upon being

best man at your wedding.

And besides, I personally

am going to give you 10 francs.

Thank you, sir.

Captain Flagg.

Captain Flagg!

Yes, son. Yes, son.

Yes, son.

- Captain Flagg?

- Come on!

Please, please, stop the bleeding.

- All right, son.

- Please.

- All right.

- Please, Captain Flagg.

- Please, Captain Flagg?

- All right.

- Please.

- You're gonna be all right, boy.

You're gonna be all right. All right.

Company "L."

Captain?

Captain Flagg? Skipper?

Flagg here, sir.

Yes, sir.

Now?

But we got your officer

for you, sir. Right here.

You said if we got

an officer, we could all go...

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

We'll send him back to you, sir.

I got the order.

Aye, aye, sir.

We're ordered to take

the railway station and hold it.

- But, Captain, they said...

- I know what they said.

- They said if we got him a Kraut...

- This is what they're saying now!

- Everybody goes. Lipinsky, hit the deck.

- Yes, sir.

- Moran, first platoon.

- Aye, aye, sir.

- Ferguson, second platoon.

- Aye, aye, sir.

- Gowdy, you're new top soldier.

- Aye, aye, sir.

All right, you overpaid,

underfed mud guppies...

rise and shine and hit the deck!

We're moving out!

Come on! Everybody! Hit the deck!

Holsen.

- Are you Irish?

- I am.

Come on, everybody!

All together!

Come on, men!

Poor kid. A very tragic thing

happened to her.

- Huh?

- She and an American sergeant.

Terribly in love.

About to be married when he was shipped

up to the front. Never heard from again.

- Moran.

- Good evening, Major.

- Sergeant Quirt.

- Shh.

- What's up, Quirt?

- The outfit in?

No, they're coming in tonight.

What'd you do, jump the hospital?

You bet your sweet life I did. Now do me

a favor, get me an American uniform.

I got two M.P. S on my tail,

I don't wanna meet 'em in these.

Why should I stick

my neck out for you?

You can't get in trouble. I was wounded.

I ain't in my right mind.

- When were you ever?

- Look, I was wounded. I got Aspasia.

My name is Field Marshal

von Hindenburg...

and I'm looking for a carload of pants

that was lost in a shipment.

Now get me an American uniform, will ya?

And don't tell anybody.

Thanks a lot.

Thanks.

- Sergeant, you're back!

- You're darn right I'm back.

They had me dying in a hospital...

but the thought of you gave me strength

enough to come crawling back here.

And what do I find when I get here?

You waiting for me brokenhearted?

I should say not. You've been working

both sides of the ocean.

Playing footsies with our boy allies.

My foot.

Whose hat is that?

And you, Sergeant?

You never looked at another woman

when you were away, huh?

You're darn right I didn't.

There were no women.

That's right. There was only Flagg,

and I'm the first one back.

- Come here.

- Stay away from me!

- What's the matter?

- You don't remember the way you left, do you?

"I do not. She doesn't not.

We doesn't not. The marriage is off.

If I never see you again,

I'll never see you again!"

I guess you're right, Charmaine.

After the way I acted,

I don't deserve a second chance.

Turn around. Come on.

You know, all the time

I was out there...

I kept thinking...

"She could've been mine."

That's what kept me going

through all the shot and the shell.

Maybe it could still be...

me and Charmaine.

And then when I was wounded, and I was

lying in the hospital under ether...

they tell me that

I kept calling your name.

"Charmaine. Charmaine.

Forgive me, Charmaine."

- Yeah.

- You were wounded?

Just in the leg.

That's more like it.

There was a couple of other things...

I thought of in the hospital, only I

don't know how to say them in French.

That must be Moran with my uniform.

- Uniform?

- Yeah. I'm just wearing

pajamas. Come on in, slug.

Well, I-I say, I...

I beg your pardon, Major...

- Quirt.

- Captain Wickham here.

I thought... Well, I-I mean,

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