Ski Troop Attack (1960)
1h 3min | Action, Adventure, War | 8 April 1960 (USA)
An American patrol has to cross behind enemy lines by skis in order to blow up an important railroad bridge. The task is made harder by conflicts between the platoon's veteran sergeant and its inexperienced lieutenant and by constant attacks by pursuing German troops.
Director: Roger Corman
Writer: Charles B. Griffith
Stars: Michael Forest, Frank Wolff, Wally Campo
1h 3min | Action, Adventure, War | 8 April 1960 (USA)
An American patrol has to cross behind enemy lines by skis in order to blow up an important railroad bridge. The task is made harder by conflicts between the platoon's veteran sergeant and its inexperienced lieutenant and by constant attacks by pursuing German troops.
Director: Roger Corman
Writer: Charles B. Griffith
Stars: Michael Forest, Frank Wolff, Wally Campo
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00:02:00All right, you guys.
00:02:01See what they got on them. Come on, hit it.
00:02:03Check them for grenades.
00:02:08Carter!
00:02:11Yeah, Lieutenant?
00:02:12Did you order this attack?
00:02:15Well, I guess I did, sir.
00:02:18And what was the provocation?
00:02:20Provocation?
00:02:22Well, I took a look-see down the hill and I saw about half a dozen Krauts.
00:02:27Now, the sight of Krauts always seems like a...
00:02:31...provocation to me, Lieutenant.
00:02:37Cover up those bodies with snow.
00:02:40And join me in that clump of pines.
00:02:46You got the word, girls.
00:02:48Cover them bodies.
00:03:00What's the scanning, Lieutenant?
00:03:02I don't want to have to remind you again, Sergeant.
00:03:05But this is strictly a recon patrol.
00:03:07We're to avoid all enemy contact.
00:03:10They saw us first, sir.
00:03:11Up there on the hill?
00:03:12If you were out scouting, you wouldn't have noticed.
00:03:16Bruce, get a regiment.
00:03:17Yes, sir.
00:03:18All right, now hear this.
00:03:19Baker Queen 5 to Baker Queen.
00:03:21You did a good job back there, but that's not what we came for.
00:03:23Baker Queen, Baker Queen, over.
00:03:25As long as this weather stays socked in,
00:03:27the ski troops are the division's only eyes behind the German lines.
00:03:30Baker Queen 5 to Baker Queen, over.
00:03:33Hello, Baker Queen 5. This is Baker Queen, over.
00:03:36Stand by, Baker Queen.
00:03:37Baker Queen, this is C.O. Baker Queen 5.
00:03:41I'm on your map, 75D14, at coordinates K32 in six minutes, over.
00:03:47Make your report, Baker Queen 5, over.
00:03:50Engage in destroyed enemy patrol.
00:03:53Shoulder patches indicate 7th Waffen SS.
00:03:56Any orders?
00:03:57Over.
00:03:58Conditions static.
00:04:00You are to proceed as ordered, over and out.
00:04:02Permission to enter?
00:04:04No, we'll go on for a couple of miles, then we'll make camp.
00:04:08All right, let's move out.
00:04:33Okay, we shack up here.
00:04:34Chow down, sir.
00:04:36Boy, the feet, the feet. It gets the feet.
00:04:40When I get home, I'm going to buy me a hammock.
00:04:42Boy, I sure wish we could heat this stuff up.
00:04:44The only thing to do with sea rations is throw them up.
00:04:48Lieutenant, sir.
00:04:49Yes, Criminal Spocker?
00:04:50Do you think we're going to make it?
00:04:51I don't think so.
00:04:53We're going to make it.
00:04:54We're going to make it.
00:04:55We're going to make it.
00:04:56We're going to make it.
00:04:57We're going to make it.
00:04:58We're going to make it.
00:04:59We're going to make it.
00:05:00We're going to make it.
00:05:01Do you think those Krauts are really getting ready to throw something big at us?
00:05:05I don't know.
00:05:07If they're going to, they better try it fast.
00:05:10The other side of that range is the Rhineland.
00:05:12Seventy-five percent of all German war industry is centered there.
00:05:16Well, heck, if we take that, we sure enough win the war.
00:05:19You say so, Criminal Spocker.
00:05:21Herman ought to know.
00:05:22He's been to military school.
00:05:25Now, what's the matter with that?
00:05:27It ain't school, it's academy.
00:05:28Yeah, I used to get you creds in basic.
00:05:31Big guns who'd been play-acting captains and majors in school.
00:05:37A couple of days of my treatment shaped them up fast.
00:05:40Now, that's not right, Sergeant.
00:05:42All the teachers at our academy were Army officers.
00:05:46Now, I learned a lot more there than in eight weeks of basic training.
00:05:50Well, aren't you a smart young cracker.
00:05:52I wish I'd had you in my outfit.
00:05:55And what would you have done without me?
00:05:58What would you have done with them, Sergeant?
00:06:00I'd make them or break them.
00:06:02Because the Army needs men.
00:06:05But it takes time.
00:06:07You can't make an Army man in eight weeks.
00:06:12Or ninety days.
00:06:14Okay, hit the sack.
00:06:17At dawn, we take a course of ninety-six degrees and head for Ridge 805.
00:06:29This road isn't marked on the map.
00:06:31Hey, what the heck is that noise?
00:06:33What noise?
00:06:35Everybody off the road!
00:06:58Ridge 805
00:07:28Hey, regiment, fast!
00:07:30Looks like a big push, Lieutenant.
00:07:32This is the first indication of a Panzer division within fifty miles of here.
00:07:36Baker Queen, this is Baker Queen 5.
00:07:39Baker Queen, this is Baker Queen 5. Over.
00:07:42Keep out of the roads. They couldn't hear if you set off a cannon.
00:07:48You're just sitting ducks, Lieutenant.
00:07:51So are we, Sergeant.
00:07:53Yeah, but I'd rather be killing crowds than sitting on my duck.
00:07:56Baker Queen 5 to Baker Queen.
00:07:58Baker Queen to Baker Queen 5.
00:08:00What do you want? Make it quick. Over.
00:08:04What's going on back there? Over.
00:08:06Don't you have ears, buddy?
00:08:08Over.
00:08:10This is C.O. Baker Queen 5.
00:08:12I have a Panzer Division 5 D-1-4 at coordinates K-34 in eight minutes. Over.
00:08:16Sorry, sir. The whole front is blown apart.
00:08:19I think regimental command was caught in the first assault. Over.
00:08:22Can you give me any idea of the extent of the offensive? Over.
00:08:25It looks like several divisions.
00:08:26They're pushing a bulge in the Ardennes sector.
00:08:29The whole front's wide open.
00:08:31They say von Ronstadt's directing us. Over and out. We've got to get out.
00:08:34Okay. And if you find anyone of authority, tell them I'm proceeding independently. Over and out.
00:08:49Sure has gotten quiet all of a sudden.
00:08:52It's always like that. It's before something happens.
00:08:56We can expect another convoy in a few minutes.
00:09:00Follow me. We're going to have a conference.
00:09:04Conference?
00:09:13Lieutenant, you said we were going to have a...
00:09:16Conference?
00:09:18That's what I said, Sergeant Potter.
00:09:21In the last ten minutes, the situation has changed in every respect.
00:09:24Not only for this patrol, but probably for the entire Western Front.
00:09:28There are two things we can do.
00:09:30We can turn back and try to rejoin the outfit,
00:09:33or we can keep going, marking the roads and scouting the enemy advance.
00:09:37The final decision is up to me.
00:09:40But I'd like to hear any ideas you might have.
00:09:43Lieutenant, sir.
00:09:45Yes, Kramerspacher?
00:09:47In my opinion, this patrol finds itself in a position of rare opportunity.
00:09:50We are in the rear of a disorganized front.
00:09:52We probably constitute the only reconnaissance unit available to the Allied forces.
00:09:57I think we should keep right on going, sir.
00:10:00And report everything we see.
00:10:02What do you have to say, Sergeant Potter?
00:10:05Well, Lieutenant,
00:10:07I think we ought to go back where the fighting is.
00:10:11Where any man with guts would want to be, sir.
00:10:16I can sympathize with your opinion, Sergeant Potter.
00:10:18Private Kramerspacher is right.
00:10:21We do have a rare opportunity to report directly to headquarters what the Germans are up to.
00:10:26We're going to take that opportunity.
00:10:29We'll follow that road, marking it and scouting the enemy advance.
00:10:33We'll use the weather as a time limit.
00:10:35When it clears up and our planes are able to come over and scout, then we'll start back.
00:10:39All right, let's move out.
00:10:42Nice work, Napoleon.
00:10:44Oh, it's all right, son.
00:10:45It's a simple command problem.
00:10:47We can always get you a division, Kramerspacher.
00:10:50All right, let's knock off the sky like a nut.
00:11:15Fire!
00:11:45Fire!
00:12:16If this war is over, I'm going to Miami.
00:12:19Sort of nice. I remember one winter back in Salt Lake.
00:12:22You guys ain't seen nothing till you spend a winter in a stockyard.
00:12:37Potter!
00:12:39What's the matter?
00:12:41I don't know.
00:12:43Potter!
00:12:50They'll be here in about a minute.
00:12:53There's no place to hide. What are you going to do now, Lieutenant?
00:12:57Well, what did they teach you about this in OCS, Lieutenant?
00:13:05There's a German patrol heading straight for us.
00:13:08Get up on that ledge.
00:13:10When the patrol gets near, open fire. Get moving.
00:13:12Copy that, Chris.
00:13:14Now, the rest of us will go around to the right.
00:13:16As soon as Roos draws their fire, we'll attack from the rear.
00:13:19If we time this right, they won't have a chance.
00:13:21What chance will Roos have?
00:13:23Let's move out.
00:13:42Let's go.
00:14:13Move!
00:14:38All right, you guys.
00:14:40Search them bodies for food.
00:14:42Yes, sir.
00:15:01Something amusing happened, Sergeant?
00:15:03No, sir. Not a thing.
00:15:07We're out of rations, Lieutenant.
00:15:09Looks to me like we're going to have to go back,
00:15:10no matter what the deal is.
00:15:12Not at all.
00:15:14Remember that log cabin about three miles northeast of here?
00:15:17Yeah, I remember it.
00:15:19I noticed some shacks behind it.
00:15:21Looked like chicken coops.
00:15:23We're going to go back there tonight and see what we can pick up.
00:15:26Fried chicken?
00:15:28Well, shut my mouth.
00:15:30At ease, Grandma Spock.
00:15:32Fall in and clean them pieces.
00:15:34Looks like we're going to stage a little attack on Heidi and her grandfather.
00:15:38Heidi and her grandfather.
00:15:54Now, don't move, baby. Just don't move.
00:15:57It's okay, Sarge.
00:16:01You speak English, well then?
00:16:03Girl Spock, I searched your weapons. Check under the window.
00:16:06You're Americans?
00:16:08Here in Germany?
00:16:10I'm afraid so, sweetheart.
00:16:14It just can't be.
00:16:16She's right. The Fuhrer promised, you know.
00:16:18He gets mine to leave him.
00:16:20The house and pepper and the wiener schnitzel are to watch on the ride.
00:16:24What's that, Grandma Spock?
00:16:26I said, how are you, sweetheart?
00:16:29The rabbit stew and the veal cutlet are to watch on the ride.
00:16:32You said what?
00:16:33Well, that's all the German that I know.
00:16:36You do speak English, Fraulein.
00:16:38Are there any German troops around here?
00:16:40Ja.
00:16:42Many soldaten.
00:16:44You had better leave.
00:16:51Stop!
00:16:53Easy, Sergeant.
00:16:56Imagine the force. There are hundreds of German troops.
00:16:59To advance.
00:17:00Hundreds of German troops.
00:17:02You had better leave, or you will all be destroyed.
00:17:06She's wild, Lieutenant.
00:17:08I know.
00:17:10Nikola, Grandma Spock, take another look around outside.
00:17:12Then get the chickens.
00:17:14Leave a couple for her.
00:17:19Hail to the conquering hero.
00:17:31Come on, you guys.
00:17:33Cut your head off.
00:17:39What the crud are those guys doing with them chickens, Lieutenant?
00:17:42Whatever it is, it's against the law.
00:17:56Go ahead, have some.
00:17:58Do you good.
00:18:10Feel better?
00:18:12Dankeschön.
00:18:16How about fixing us a pot of coffee?
00:18:19Coffee?
00:18:21I'll fix you a coffee.
00:18:23If you like burnt barley seeds.
00:18:27Just so long as it's hot.
00:18:31What do you think our women would act like
00:18:35if a stick and crock patrol came waltzing in on them, Lieutenant?
00:18:40About the same, I imagine.
00:18:43We all think it's impossible to lose.
00:19:01A coffee.
00:19:03For that lousy notice.
00:19:06Start packing up the chow.
00:19:09Yes, sir.
00:19:14Yes, he's fighting in Russia.
00:19:18He's a good fighter.
00:19:20He's a good fighter.
00:19:22He's a good fighter.
00:19:24He's a good fighter.
00:19:26He's a good fighter.
00:19:28He's a good fighter.
00:19:31Russian front.
00:19:33It's pretty rough.
00:19:35Looks like you'll be coming home pretty soon.
00:19:38Not soon.
00:19:40The Russian front is being shortened and adjusted.
00:19:44Karl will be home after the German victory in Moscow.
00:19:48Do you really believe that?
00:19:50Hitler has never lied to the German people.
00:19:54The new secret weapons are almost ready.
00:19:56And then you will see the trap into which you have walked.
00:19:59At this moment, Bernadette's dead is crushing your Eisenhower.
00:20:02Soon the victory will be ours.
00:20:04Then we will have peace.
00:20:10Well, it was nip and tuck for a while.
00:20:13We got him.
00:20:15Now what do we do with him?
00:20:17You killed all my chickens.
00:20:19Well, shucks, Fraulein.
00:20:21We left a couple for you.
00:20:23A boy and a girl.
00:20:25Don't call me Fraulein.
00:20:27I'm Frau Heinzdorf.
00:20:31Take everything from my house.
00:20:35Soon I shall have it all back.
00:20:38From your house, too.
00:20:42Now pick and clean him.
00:20:54I never thought the spoils of war would taste so good.
00:20:56What did I tell you?
00:20:58I never thought I'd be embarrassed to take any more.
00:21:01What do you care? She's a stinking crowd, isn't she?
00:21:04That's no way to talk about her.
00:21:06Well, what the crud did I say?
00:21:08She is a stinking crowd, isn't she?
00:21:10She can't help what she was born that way.
00:21:13Do you think all Germans are freaks, Sergeant?
00:21:17Well, Lieutenant.
00:21:19You gotta be a freak to start a stinking war with the whole world.
00:21:22You gotta be off your stick.
00:21:27American, why do you say we started the war?
00:21:31Who else, sweetheart?
00:21:33The Eskimos?
00:21:35The Poles started the war.
00:21:37Then the French and the English declared war on us.
00:21:40Why do you bomb our cities and kill our children and then say we started the war?
00:21:44Why?
00:21:46Fraulein, you're able sugar.
00:21:48As ape as that stinking creek you got up there on the wall.
00:22:12All right, pack up your gear and move out.
00:22:18Yes, sir.
00:23:19Well, boys, Merry Christmas.
00:23:21Thank you, Lieutenant.
00:23:23Likewise and more of the same.
00:23:25With hope.
00:23:27Christmas 1944.
00:23:29The land of the Christmas tree.
00:23:31It's a little bit unreal.
00:23:33Yes, sir, it is.
00:23:35I'm looking forward to the next Christmas.
00:23:37In the land of the beer and the hot dogs.
00:23:39Hey, this is the land of beer and hot dogs, Sergeant.
00:23:42I'm looking forward to the next Christmas.
00:23:44I'm looking forward to the next Christmas.
00:23:45In the land of the beer and the hot dogs.
00:23:47Hey, this is the land of beer and hot dogs, Sergeant.
00:23:49What do you mean?
00:23:51Sure, beer is a national drink.
00:23:53Hot dogs are from Frankfurt.
00:23:55From Frankfurt.
00:23:57And hamburgers are from Hamburg.
00:23:59And Sauerkraut is from Krausburg.
00:24:01Oh, yeah?
00:24:03Well, how about Coca-Cola?
00:24:05From Coca-Cola-burg.
00:24:09Well, what did you see, Grandma Spock?
00:24:11Grandma Spock?
00:24:13I'm going to call you Herman.
00:24:15Thank you, sir.
00:24:18I didn't see a cotton-picking thing.
00:24:20Hey, maybe we can spend New Year's Eve with the outfit, huh?
00:24:24Really, Sergeant?
00:24:26How do you figure that?
00:24:28Well, we've done our job and we've done our good.
00:24:31We've been over every inch of 75B14.
00:24:34We marked down every cruddy road and bridge and tunnel and railroad.
00:24:38We're done.
00:24:40And I drink to us.
00:24:42You're right, Sergeant Potter.
00:24:43You're absolutely right.
00:24:45We have finished with 75B14.
00:24:49Now take a look at 75B16.
00:24:52Six?
00:24:54The Germans are still coming through.
00:24:56And it looks like they're coming through this sector.
00:24:59I want to find out where.
00:25:01Lieutenant, I don't see what...
00:25:03Sergeant!
00:25:05I guess I didn't make myself clear.
00:25:07We are going on.
00:25:09And we're going to avoid all enemy contact.
00:25:11Are there any questions, Sergeant?
00:25:15No, sir.
00:25:19Merry Christmas.
00:25:41Get the patrols together.
00:25:43We're following the tracks.
00:25:45Hurry up.
00:26:10Let's go.
00:26:41Look at that mammoth German bridge, Sarge.
00:26:44It took a lot of sweat to build a bridge like that.
00:26:47Which way to Mississippi?
00:26:49Straight up, boys. Straight up.
00:26:52Sure looks like a perfect target to me.
00:26:55Nah, it's a lousy target.
00:26:57Why, she's a sitting duck for a dive bomber.
00:27:00Sergeant Potter's right.
00:27:02It's an almost impossible target from the air.
00:27:05But not impossible from the ground.
00:27:07So we're going to blow it up.
00:27:10That's the way the Germans are moving up.
00:27:13We're going to do what the planes can't do.
00:27:16How, Lieutenant?
00:27:19Let's take cover and figure out how.
00:27:29They were here.
00:27:31Above us.
00:27:38If we take this nest,
00:27:40we can get enough mortar shells to blow up anything in sight.
00:27:43But they'll be after us in a hurry,
00:27:45so we can't afford to leave tracks.
00:27:47We'll climb the face of the cliff
00:27:49and come down on them from the top,
00:27:51skipping the trail altogether.
00:27:53Yeah, but suppose the Krauts in the nest happen to look up
00:27:56while we're climbing down the ropes.
00:27:58If that happens, Sergeant,
00:28:00you may have the honor of dropping the first grenade.
00:28:02How are we going to convert mortar shells
00:28:04into charges for the bridge?
00:28:05I can handle that. I had demolition training.
00:28:08Give the kid an A+.
00:28:10Okay, let's get the skis hidden.
00:28:36In Russia, food will freeze in your stomach.
00:28:40Yeah, if you only get something to eat.
00:28:48When we were at the Moscow Front,
00:28:50we couldn't even make a fire at night.
00:28:52We had to eat ice cream.
00:28:54We didn't have any water at all.
00:28:56It's already frozen better.
00:28:58I've got it.
00:28:59I've got it.
00:29:11Yeah, girl!
00:29:30I think I dropped something, boys.
00:29:32You fathead.
00:29:34Never mind the talk.
00:29:36Let's get the stuff packed up and beaded
00:29:38before the relief shows up.
00:29:40What's this?
00:29:42Tell her, Mike.
00:29:44Yeah, we can plant that under some road, Lieutenant.
00:29:46Sarge, we can use that to set off the charges.
00:29:48Sit that on the railroad track, a train hits it,
00:29:50ka-blooey, that's all she wrote.
00:29:52Good.
00:29:54It sure is designed. Pack it up and let's get out of here.
00:30:00Okay, take five.
00:30:05I hope you guys are good mountain climbers.
00:30:08It sure looks like Everest to me.
00:30:11I tell you, Sarge, I plump forgot my oxygen tank.
00:30:14One thing's for sure.
00:30:16If we can't reach the top,
00:30:18we can always reach the bottom.
00:30:21There's a shelf to the right of the bridge.
00:30:24I'll take it.
00:30:26There's a shelf to the right of the bridge.
00:30:28That's our main objective.
00:30:30When we get there,
00:30:32we'll arm the mine and the mortar shelves.
00:30:34Check the stress points.
00:30:36Okay, let's go.
00:30:38As General Robert E. Lee once said,
00:30:40off we go into the wild blue yonder.
00:30:56Crouch!
00:30:58What do we do now?
00:31:00We keep moving.
00:31:02We can lay for them easy.
00:31:04Nothing doing.
00:31:06The bridge is the most important thing.
00:31:08If we can keep our lead, we can blow it.
00:31:10We'll worry about them later.
00:31:12Come on.
00:31:25Let's go.
00:31:39We've seen them.
00:31:41Move it!
00:31:55Move it!
00:32:26Look at this.
00:32:28We can't go back now, Lieutenant.
00:32:30They'll kill us for sure.
00:32:33Let's go.
00:32:35Let's go.
00:32:37Let's go.
00:32:39Let's go.
00:32:41Let's go.
00:32:43Let's go.
00:32:45Let's go.
00:32:47Let's go.
00:32:49Let's go.
00:32:51Let's go.
00:32:53Let's go.
00:32:55Let's go.
00:32:56Let's go.
00:32:58Let's go.
00:32:59Let's go.
00:33:24McCullough!
00:33:26Get back down there and keep us covered.
00:33:27Sir.
00:33:57McCullough!
00:34:16McCullough!
00:34:18Fall back!
00:34:27Fall back!
00:34:32Fall back!
00:34:51Let's get out of here.
00:34:57Let's go.
00:35:27Let's go.
00:35:36Duck!
00:35:44What was that?
00:35:45That was a grenade.
00:35:47It just blew out about five feet of ledge behind us.
00:35:50I don't think we'll have to worry about them Germans anymore, Lieutenant.
00:35:54Even if I do say so myself.
00:35:55You stupid idiot, do you realize what you've done?
00:35:58You cut off our retreat off this iceberg.
00:36:01How are we supposed to get back down the mountain?
00:36:03I'm sorry, sir. I didn't figure.
00:36:05You didn't figure.
00:36:07You better start figuring, mister.
00:36:09I've heard nothing but your big mouth talking about the regular army
00:36:12and how smart old sergeants are supposed to be.
00:36:14I hope you get smart by the time we're ready to go.
00:36:21All right.
00:36:23There's a sheltered area at the end of this ledge.
00:36:26We'll make that our base camp
00:36:28by the attack on the bridge.
00:36:30Let's go.
00:36:53We'll make camp for the night.
00:36:56I want two men on guard at that rock at all times.
00:36:59Joel and Grandma Spock are first.
00:37:00I want two men on guard at that rock at all times.
00:37:03Joel and Grandma Spock are first.
00:37:31Dracola, did you ever stop to think
00:37:34that there might be a bullet somewhere
00:37:36with your name printed on it?
00:37:38Are you crazy or something?
00:37:41I've got a mental picture
00:37:43of some fat old German woman
00:37:45at some factory somewhere
00:37:47stuffing bullets into a clip.
00:37:52One of them has my name on it
00:37:54and that black, heavy German type.
00:37:56I can imagine that clip
00:37:58being sent up to the front.
00:38:02Sometimes I pretend
00:38:04that the box of ammo that the clip is in
00:38:07falls off a truck
00:38:09or gets swiped by some kids
00:38:11or maybe gets sent up to Russia by mistake.
00:38:14And other times
00:38:16I can see that old bullet
00:38:18coming right from my head
00:38:20and I duck,
00:38:22it sticks right into a tree
00:38:24and I walk over, take a bullet,
00:38:26put it in my pocket
00:38:28and then I know I'm okay
00:38:30for the rest of the war.
00:38:32Be careful.
00:38:34Suppose they make two bullets
00:38:36with your name on it.
00:38:39Now there's a hundred million soldiers
00:38:41fighting these here Krauts
00:38:43and they couldn't make two bullets
00:38:45for every one of them.
00:38:47You know, but they could accidentally
00:38:49print your name twice.
00:38:52Koenig.
00:38:54Look,
00:38:56supposing the machine got stuck, see?
00:38:58And it began to print your name
00:39:00on every bullet.
00:39:02Miles and miles of bullets.
00:39:04Printed.
00:39:06Herman Grommelsbach.
00:39:09Huh?
00:39:11Now come on, Yankee.
00:39:24Somebody just got a million dollar wound.
00:39:26That wasn't no real hand.
00:39:28It was a real hand holding it.
00:39:30At least now we know
00:39:32we can go back over the gap.
00:39:34Keep this ledge covered.
00:39:36I'm going to get a closer look at the bridge.
00:39:54Now one man can hold this ledge indefinitely
00:39:56as long as he watches out for grenades.
00:39:59Now the bridge is about a hundred feet above us.
00:40:01The three of us will go on ahead tonight
00:40:03and iron the charges.
00:40:05As soon as it gets light,
00:40:07we'll plant them on the bridge.
00:40:09Herman, I want you to stay here
00:40:11and hold this position
00:40:13while the rest of you get ready.
00:40:15Okay.
00:40:17I'm going to get a closer look
00:40:19at the bridge.
00:40:20Herman, I want you to stay here
00:40:22and hold this position
00:40:24while the rest of us go on ahead.
00:40:26Let's move.
00:40:51This appears to be the best spot
00:40:53for planting the charges.
00:40:55Here, here, and here.
00:40:57I sure wish we could do it now, Lieutenant.
00:40:59It's not alive, but it's too dark.
00:41:01When the first light appears,
00:41:03we'll plant the mortar shells.
00:41:05That's the easy part.
00:41:07The tough job is planting the mine on the tracks
00:41:09and getting back here
00:41:11before a train comes along.
00:41:13Okay, Lieutenant.
00:41:15But who plants the mine?
00:41:17Well, I won't order anybody to do that.
00:41:21Odd man gets lucky.
00:41:29I guess I lucked out.
00:41:35Go.
00:41:37Take my grenade.
00:41:39Go.
00:41:51Better luck next time, Fritzie.
00:42:13I'd better move out.
00:42:15I don't want to get shot.
00:42:17I don't want to get shot.
00:42:19I'd better move out.
00:42:21Wow.
00:42:23When will I ever be warm again?
00:42:25I sure hope this stuff works.
00:42:27The grommel sparkler swings a lot of bull, you know.
00:42:30If the train hits the mine,
00:42:32it hits the batteries, too.
00:42:34I don't see how it can miss.
00:42:36Yeah, but what happens if the mine don't work?
00:42:38You sound like you hope it won't.
00:42:40You know, Lieutenant,
00:42:42I'd much rather be killing krauts
00:42:44than messing around with this cruddy homemade bomb.
00:42:46Don't worry, Sergeant.
00:42:48There's plenty of fighting before we're done.
00:42:50And if nothing happens
00:42:52and they spot us from the train,
00:42:54you won't have to go looking for a fight.
00:42:57All right, Lieutenant.
00:43:00I'm not worried.
00:43:03You'll find a place for us to hide.
00:43:07Pick up your stuff and move out.
00:43:18Let's go.
00:43:39Three main supports.
00:43:41I'll take the one in the center.
00:43:43Potter, you take the one on the left.
00:43:45Chicolo, the one on the right.
00:43:46Got it?
00:43:48Okay, Lieutenant.
00:43:50Let's go.
00:44:16Let's go.
00:44:46Let's go.
00:45:16Help me!
00:45:46Help me!
00:46:17Thanks, Lieutenant.
00:46:19Forget it.
00:46:22Sergeant, I'm worried about something.
00:46:25What's that, sir?
00:46:27We shouldn't all be out here
00:46:29without a guard back at the cliff.
00:46:32Oh, we'll be okay, sir.
00:46:34Grimble's pocket can take care of anything that comes up.
00:46:37We've got to set these charters.
00:46:39I guess maybe you're right.
00:46:41We've got to set these charters.
00:46:43We've got to set these charters.
00:46:45I guess maybe you're right.
00:47:06Here's your end of the wire.
00:47:08Make it secure and then drop the other end down.
00:47:11I'll run it on over to the center support.
00:47:12Yes, sir.
00:47:14Here, let me get out of your way, sir.
00:47:43Come on!
00:47:45Come on!
00:47:47Come on!
00:48:12Yeah.
00:48:43Okay, Gicola.
00:48:45Get set to place the mine.
00:48:47But wait for my signal to be sure you're in the clear.
00:48:50Yes, sir.
00:48:51And that tree over there, huh?
00:48:53That's the one.
00:48:55Now, you need anything else?
00:48:57Yes, sir.
00:48:58Have you got a parachute?
00:49:00I'll see you later.
00:49:01Yeah.
00:49:03Take it easy, Gicola.
00:49:05Yeah.
00:49:12Come on!
00:49:34Motherfucker!
00:49:36Support Herman, I'm going up that tree!
00:49:42Motherfucker!
00:50:12Motherfucker!
00:50:43Motherfucker!
00:51:09Forzy!
00:51:12Forzy!
00:51:42Forzy!
00:52:13Forzy!
00:52:15Forzy!
00:52:42Forzy!
00:52:45Forzy!
00:53:04It's sliding backwards!
00:53:12Is Gicola coming?
00:53:18No.
00:53:19It's up there behind that cliff, so they're afraid to show their faces.
00:53:40Come on.
00:53:41Let's make a break for the lunch.
00:53:42Come on.
00:53:43What happened to Gicola?
00:53:44He didn't make it.
00:53:45Let's go.
00:53:46What happened to Gicola?
00:54:01He didn't make it.
00:54:14He didn't make it.
00:54:34He didn't make it.
00:54:56He didn't make it.
00:55:23He didn't make it.
00:55:39He didn't make it.
00:55:40He didn't make it.
00:56:00All right, let's get out of here.
00:56:28All right, Herman.
00:56:48Yes, sir.
00:56:53I guess those Krauts finally got me.
00:56:55Did he make it?
00:56:56I think so.
00:56:57Grab hold of the ski pole.
00:56:58I think so.
00:56:59I think so.
00:57:00I think so.
00:57:01I think so.
00:57:02I think so.
00:57:03I think so.
00:57:04I think so.
00:57:05I think so.
00:57:06I think so.
00:57:20I think so.
00:57:32Can you get up?
00:57:33Not anymore, sir.
00:57:36You guys go on.
00:57:37I'll cover you as long as I can.
00:57:42Okay, Herman.
00:57:44Good luck.
00:57:46Thank you, Lieutenant.
00:57:48Take it easy, boy.
00:57:52Thank you, Sarge.
00:57:55Potter.
00:58:23Drop your grenade.
00:58:52Drop your grenade.
00:59:21Drop your grenade.
00:59:51Well, Sergeant, did you get enough fighting?
00:59:59I guess so, Lieutenant.
01:00:12Okay, let's get out of here.
01:00:41Okay, let's get out of here.