" Welcome home" "Captain" " I'm going to solitary he's under arrest but it doesn't matter now" " It hasn't all been a failure." " Where did they pick you up?" " I ran out of money" " Dick." "We thought you'd be home now didn't we meet somewhere?" "isn't that Dick Player?" "what more proof do you want?" "would you?" " Without any proof" " but the risk" " I...wanted to lend him the money" " God may help you!" " You thick skin hypocrite" "" " You're afraid for yourself" " The USA cannot possibly authorize pay.." " You're afraid." "Look at me!" "Damn you!" " Please!" " Who'd turn away." " If you just put 50 marks on the table" " I'm sorry" " Just lend me the money!" " I thought you were one of us!" " We're not allied to anyone!" " We're being watched" " Let them watch!" "We're at war!" "you lend me the money" " Please!" "but the USA government..." " I'm not asking.." " The most compromising situation" " Provocation?" "50 marks!" " But the government of the USA can't risk any provocation believe me I do" " Now will you please go" "" " We're under strict orders to avoid any contact with any member of the allied forces" " I think you better leave" " But..." "I beg you!" " 50 Marks" " You came here for money?" " Just for some food and train fare for Baden" " What is it you want?" " I haven't any money does it matter how I got here?" " How did you get here?" " I managed.." "I speak German" " Don't ask for any proof I haven't any" " Colditz.." " In Leipzig" " Where did you escape from?" " Colditz" " You say you're ..a British POW" " Mr. Player" "I guess that I'd better talk to him" " Could be an provocateur" " It's gotten tricky" " There's a rumor going around that we're maybe not as neutral as we're supposed to be" " I don't know" "I'm sure he's telling the truth" " British Officer?" "Royal Navy." "Held as a POW" " May I have your name please" " Richard Player why don't you sit down the consul" " I want to see the consul" " Do you have an appointment?" "what do you want?" " You feel like a nice schnitzel like you had before?" " Plenty of beer" " and Apfel strudel piled with cream and beer parsley and green salad" " Do you know what I'm having for supper?" "Fresh trout she'd need a good meal" " Unlucky?" " I do alright" " Racial purity" "I wouldn't even be here" " Can't get my fair share like the other girls because she has only got to telll the SS" " That's why!" " Because I am half jewish" " I'll tell you why" " Do you know why she can treat me like this?" " It's my chest" " Does it hurt?" " And you know..." " She knows she can do what she likes with me she just gives me enogh to go out again" " I've brought you some sausage" " There wasn't any food for you if I didn't work but I got to earn the money" " He's gone" " All clear!" "I won't be long just a moment only a few minutes I've got a client" " Get up!" "I've got a client in a moment" " I wish I could tell Cathy that I'm on my way" " You know what I wish?" " What?" " Yeah" " With any luck you'll be home soon" " Thank you" " The women" " But I do" " God knows how I remembered them after a year" "The luxury of women" " Smelling so..." " ...sweet" " The women?" " Can you imagine?" " You've got an one tracked mind." "What about the women?" " And the food waited on hand and foot" " I'd just see Dick now" " It's starting to rain again" " Can I just have the food" " I'm very very grateful" "I shall never see you again the doctors or mine" " Nobody's..." " It's also a price for concealing them" " I don't know what the price is for handing over deserters to the authorities ... alright I'm a deserter" " You need a doctor" " Look..." " How's my temperature?" " He.." "I can get him to come for nothing." "I have no money he can come and see you..." " I don't need a doctor at ..at the house the doctor comes too" " Disguise alright" " Oh... don't talk" " and a bottle of cognac" " An angel in disguise" " Normal!" " It hasn't started yet" " Just accept it" " Just accept the fact that I won" " But you must..." " I told you not to talk!" " There are too many people going around asking why" " What have?" " Don't ask why you'll break the thermometer now open your mouth" "I've never liked the taste of thermometers believe me..anything thanks" " Did somebody tip you last night?" " Have you put on weight?" " I'll..." "I'll have a knack wurst as well" " You'll be quite safe" " I'll be back in the morning the clubs have all got their own girls are just starting to close" " Sometimes the soldiers arrive at the station" " I'd expected to go back." " At this time of the night?" " Now...you go to sleep" " You can't see unless you look very closely" " you see" "I promise" " You are a deserter" " I know what you are" "" " This is the only way I can..." " Yes.." "takes nearly every penny I earn" " I sometime bring clients here" " I could show you some for 10 Marks" " I could help you...10 Marks" " You must have some money" " Not enough" " Told you to get out" " I'm going!" "but I'm.." "You see Madam always makes men pay ..even if they don't..." " I wouldn't be much fun" " This is what I meant..." "I'm afraid Madam makes men pay even if they don't..." " You could sleep at our house..." "but..." " I haven't any money" " Oh.." " You can come home with me if you like..." " Why?" "have you any where to sleep?" "but are you feeling ill?" " You can't stay in here all night for the price of a cup of coffee" " Finish your coffee and get out" " Heil Hitler!" "Sir" " I would give a lot for a month of leave now you have a month of leave" " I'll have to make a report and to get back to my unit in a couple of days." "Damn it!" "Sir" "Sir" " It's a military police post there..." " I can drop you by the station you really look ill" " Do you really want to go straight home?" " That's an order" "Sir" " Allow yourself 20 women" " How much leave have you got?" " We're just coming in to Vienna" " That is all!" " Lt. Player will not get out of Germany" " but I wouldn't place much hope in succeeding if I were you" " I know it helps you to pass the time to try and escape are for sleeping on" " I have worked out how it was done" "Sir" " Papers please!" " Roadblock" "I don't let that crop my style" "Sir" " And what nights." "You should have seen the girls he had" " I met with his family on a party." "Lasted 2 days and 2 nights he was to go to the 17th but was transferred to the 4th" "Ah..." "Sir" "Sir" " Well?" "How is he?" " How is my old friend Friedrich Bayerlein?" "Sir" " There's something we have to do." "To show the sub-races the.." "eh?" " What?" " What are the Russian women like ?" " What are the Russian women like ?" " And plump pink girls." "and cream-cakes" " The beloved Austria" "Sir when I get home" " It isn't the best" " I'd rather go straight home" " No!" " I can drop you at one of the transit depos there" "Sir they are needing all the uniforms they can get" " Sure they'd give you another" " The hospital took my uniform" " Why aren't you in uniform?" " My driver wouldn't have picked you up." "He's on leave" " Compassionate leave he calls it" " You're lucky I came along" " Yes" "Sir" "I missed it wondering about in the middle of the night" "Sir" " Thank you" "Corporal" "I got pneumonia and... ja ?" " What are you doing here?" "Sir" "Sir where are you serving?" "Sir" " What unit?" " 17th Pansars" "Sir get in!" "just south of Vienna eh?" " Yes" " Where are you trying to get to?" " Show me your papers!" " At this time of night?" "In this weather?" " What are you trying to do?" " Just walking" " Here!" "You!" " Thanks" " Getting warmed up." "We don't want you dying in action" " Nice to have met you." " Give my friend a glass of Schnaps" " You'll catch pneumonia going around like that." "Nice to have met you." "I have to go." "I'd get changed and dried off if I were you." "to look at you now nobody would think you're in the army it's crafty" " And to wish her financee is in the MP but you turn up here missing a uniform" "I get it" " This girl.." " Doesn't she like you in uniform?" " Why aren't you in uniform?" "just outside Aurielle worth 28 days leave any way..." " Perhaps I'll get a posting in France." "I got..." " Light Aircraft -88 the 2nd Pansar Army." "What's your outfit?" " We've no winter clothing that I know of" " Should be over by the time winter sets in" " Not with the casualties they're suffering" " I could imagine" " They won't last for long" " I wish I could get a posting in France anywhere except Russia" " That's fair enough" " What's her name?" " Do you think I'll tell you while you live here?" " There's a girl" " What in hell are you doing here then?" "It's nowhere near your route" " I said get up!" " Means that you're having a confessing prisoner" " Whereabouts in France?" " An Dieppe" " He's coming back!" "gentlemen." "In future all bunk boarrds will be numbered" " To make sure that you're entitled to what you are claiming for" " So we use numbered bed boards" " Right!" " Not again!" "He's back!" "look what you've done at a whole week's work" " Who's shouting?" " Look at it!" " Look at what?" " At this?" "What is it?" " It's a painting" " What kind of a painting?" " Modern" " What does it represent?" "it's....subjective one with a hidden meaning." "It seems to be matter of some dispute" " It's not finished." " We don't like it!" "It's terrible!" "finish it" " And I will study it most carefully before I give you my opinion." "I promise." "done!" " Shut up!" " Look I didn't do it on purpose" " I said " Shut up" " Sorry Pat" " What's getting to him?" " He'll be alright" " You know Simon" " Pity" " Hello chaps!" "Edward Benting-Boyle Captain Grenadiers most chaps do" "is this bunk taken?" " No" "how do you do?" "how are you?" "jolly good" "that's a long story" "I see where's the... we're doing some boyscout reconnaisance in that... never stopped raining anyway...middle of the night there we were surrounded by chaps all talking in German" " And you know..." "I got captured" " And to Auflage 7 C didn't like much of it so I left" " How?" " Through the wire" " Thanks" " Didn't get far as a matter of fact." "They put me in solitary." " So I had another go" " It was bad luck looking back on it because I thought I was in Switzerland ha ha that I took for a member of the" First Swiss Yoddelers" " And he turned out to be a German frontier guard they sent me here that's what we're wondering but who's in charge of the escape plans?" " Nobody!" "We haven't any escape organisation" " What?" "won't we?" "that chap that arrived yesterday what do you make of him?" " I didn't know that anyone was still that British" " Could be a bit too British" " What do you mean?" " He seems to me to be any German's idea of a British Officer" " Go on" " Well" " The Poles think they have a stool pigeon." "The French almost certainly have one" " Well" " I had a few words with him last night and the what-oes I got a bit out of him" " He said he was a Winchester" " But he said he doesn't speak German" " A chap that doesn't speak the language finds it bloody easy to escape how did he get half cross Germany without..." " Oh yes!" " And more or less his uniform" " How?" "he had a fair amount of German Reichmarks on him" " George Bread" " What about him?" "we can at least check that part of his story" " Hello" " Hello" "I say thank you" "I'm not the only Wichanist here anymore." " What?" "jolly good!" "Ha ha" " What house were you?" "but I mean what house?" "" " Sergeant" " Alias Phil Alias Dee" " You mean GL then?" " Didn't I say that?" " Seems a hell of a long time ago now" " We'd nothing to worry about whether we'd pass our bowls" " Pass our bowls?" " Where to put one's strat" " Well I'd put mine on my head" " They were good days" " Best of ones life chap's say" " After books that wonderful hour to yourself " cloister-time yes...ha ha" " You're saying old man" " Nothing... we must have a chat some time" " Hooray..." " He's a Wichamist alright" "that fellow I just was talking to..." " Yeah... but he wasn't ." "He doesn't even know that a bogle is a bally bicycle" " Do you think he's..." "Do you think he's sound?" "to what?" " Helping somebody escape." "The last time they stopped us the gate what did he get?" " A month on solitary" " And we got all privileges stopped a month" " The man who lent your officer his uniform was flogged for nothing" " What are you doing here?" " Collecting palliasses you're not using them" " They're sleeping on bare boards down in the tower" " Where's Dick?" "Watch the door!" "Where's Dick?" " Dick!" " He's with the Wichamist" " Hurry!" " I haven't got any clothes ready get them!" " You know your route" " Yes" " Local trains to Vienna" " There's 70 miles to Bern" " God!" "I've waited for this" " Are you sure this friend will help?" " He's an old type Austrian aristrocat but he'll do this for my father's sake underneath!" " One rather unreliable compass" " Thanks!" " Check the list!" "travel document money" "I do ... and it's damn tricky getting hold of it" "I'll give you some of the money you'll have to wait for your turn" "Pat" " I'll be back in a minute" " What am I doing?" " Taking a chance!" " You've got to help" " Get someone out you mean?" " One of these paliasses" " Not on your life!" "just load it and then it's up to him" " I'm not risking a flogging for a British Officer" " Who's side are you on?" " Mine!" " Twenty cigarrettes..." " A hundred then..." " You haven't got a hundred cigarettes." "you'll get the cigarettes but I'm not doing this because I love the British" "I'm doing it for the cigarettes!" "Understand?" "your officer comes out again!" "Good luck!" "let's go!" " Did I tell you about the time I shot down 3 Jerry's with one bullet?" "they say it's too dangerous" " And there's another 100 cigarettes for them when he's in" " No" "1500.." " 1250..." " The great thing is to have an aircraft with a smaller turning circle than your opponent" "you know who the Germans are going to blame" " You!" "hurry up put it on the lorry" " Is everything ok?" "Pass!" " What the hell do you think you're doing?" " The same as you old boy" " But you have no uniform" " I'll manage" " Get down!" "jolly good...right Fair call as the chap said to the policewoman" "you know the way" " Put your hands over the head!" " I couldn't get through the door" " I wonder how Dick's getting on" " I wonder what's happened to that idiot He'd wreck the whole thing" " I hope he took his umbrella with him" " Six..." " You're soaked through" " Yes..." " I got caught when I left home" " Give me your coat and I'll dry it for you" "Six..." " It's me" " The dye is running" " I thought it was cheap" "if I'm going to solitary confinement I need a clean pair of socks" " Get up" " Go away!" "it's embarrassing" " But you must know Petronius who said..." "run!" " Shut up!" "you know" " Just for that you can wash my socks yourself" " You'll be punished for this" " If you deprive a chap of clean socks you're beneath contempt" " Go away!" " Do you mind if I sit here?" " Please" " What was all that about?" " Dick's got away" " What?" " How did you know?" " When he quoted from Petronius" " " He's joined the majority" " Dick's got away" " Captain Bennington isn't as stupid as he looks but he took a hell of a risk" " He could have spoiled Dick's chances" " The Germans found him and gave up looking for anybody else" " Dick's got away!" "Dick's got away!" " You're in the army?" " Yes just south of Vienna" " Your division?" " In France my unit's in Russia"