"[BIRDS CHIRPING]" "[RUSTLING]" "[BROOM SWISHING]" "Let's just keep it quiet, ma'am." " You speak English?" " Yes." "Are there any Japs around?" "You're..." "You're an American." " Have the Americans...?" " No, no, no." "No, just me." "Just me, understand?" " Are there any Japs on the island?" " No." " You're sure?" " Yes, I'm sure." "All right, where are the rest of you?" "The rest?" " Isn't there anybody else on this island?" " There is no one else here." " What, ma'am?" " There is no one on the island but me." "You're..." "You're alone here?" "God has been with me." "Why, you're..." "You're a nun, ain't you, ma'am?" " Yes, I'm Sister Angela." " Ah." "[CHUCKLING]" "I'd better transfer out of this sun, ma'am." "In here okay?" "ANGELA:" "Yes." "Everything's pitching like I'm still on the raft." "I better lie down before I fall down." "Excuse me, ma'am, I'm..." "I'm real beat." "You, ma'am, you okay?" "Yes." "Yes, I'm in no danger of any kind." " Have no fear." " Right." "ANGELA:" "Hail Mary, the Lord is with thee." "Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus." "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death." "Amen." "We're supposed to have a blackout." "There are Japanese out there." "They could see those lights 15, 20 miles off shore." " See what I mean?" " Yes, I'm sorry Mr...?" "Allison." "Corporal Allison, U.S. Marines." "Where am I, ma'am?" "Has this island got a name?" "Yes." "Tuasiva." " An atoll, eh?" " Yes." "Listen, did I hear right?" "You're..." " You're all alone on this island?" " Yes." "Since when?" "Mr. Allison, you must be hungry." "I'll tell you what happened after you've eaten." "There's some dried fruit and some biscuits over in the bungalow." "I'll go for that." "How about seconds, ma'am?" "There isn't any more." "Why didn't you say so?" "A fine guy that makes me, taking food out of a woman's mouth." " Especially a nun's." " You were starved, Mr. Allison." "I don't suppose there'd be any cigarettes around?" "No." "No cigarettes." "What I wouldn't do for a smoke." "Who belongs to this?" "It was Father Phillips' pipe." "He's buried down there." "How did he die, ma'am?" "The last few days were too much for him." "I was at the mission at Wanitok." "That's in the Tua group." "The Japanese were raiding islands around us and conscripting the natives and making prisoners of the Europeans." "A ship came for us." "We were told to close the mission and go to Fiji, but Father Phillips wouldn't leave without Father John Ryan, who was alone here at Tuasiva." "It was against the ship's orders to come for us so Father Phillips prevailed on some natives to bring us in a sailing craft." "It required all his eloquence and money." "The crew was in terror of the Japanese." "Why'd you come here, ma'am?" "Why didn't you go to Fiji with the others?" "Father Phillips was over 70." "Too old to make the voyage alone." "We landed here four days ago." "Father Ryan wasn't here." "No one was here." "The Japanese had come before us." "Go on, ma'am." "Father Phillips went all about the island calling Father Ryan:" ""John?" "John!"" "We climbed up the hill and when we got to the top we saw our boat sailing off." "Poor souls, they had simply lost courage." "Father Phillips said, "God forgive them." Nothing more." "Then we came back down the hill and sat here on the veranda." "He smoked his pipe and it grew dark." "I went inside and slept." "Next morning I found him on the beach." "He had fallen." "He couldn't talk." "I gave him his crucifix." "He kissed it and he died." "That's tough, ma'am." "On you, I mean." "Oh, I'm sure it's nothing to what you have been through, Mr. Allison." "We was on a sub, lying off some island with a code name." "My party was supposed to go ashore and do a recon." "We had the rafts over the side." "We was getting in them." "We was half on, half off." "Suddenly a light hits us, 20 mm stuff started pouring in." "So the skipper takes the sub down, which is according to his book but a little tough on us gyrenes." "We're crawling around in the water and the Jap boat drops depth charges." "It's like the whole ocean is exploding." "Something bumps into me." "A raft." "Empty." "So I pull myself onto it, heave my guts up." "Begging your pardon, ma'am." "Next thing I know it's daylight, there's no land in sight." "I guess that's about it, till I hit here." "Thank God you were spared, Mr. Allison." "Same goes for you, ma'am." "Well, I think I'll get a little rest now." "You'll be all right here on the veranda?" "Oh, sure." "Sure, ma'am." " Good night, Mr. Allison." " Good night, ma'am." "ANGELA:" "That should do us, Mr. Allison." "I seen some bamboo over there." "I'm gonna go cut me a spear." "Spear some fish." "[WILD PIG GRUNTING]" "[GRUNTING]" "Look at the turtle, Mr. Allison." "Sunning himself." "ALLISON:" "Why it sure is, ma'am." "Come on, ma'am." "Hubba-hubba!" "Come on!" "I seen a length of rope over there by the shed." "Go get it." " We're gonna catch that turtle." " Are we?" "Yeah, and I need your help." "Come on." "All right now, ma'am, together." "One, two, three, four." "One, two, three, four." " Hup, two..." " Three, four." " One, two, three, four." " That's the stuff." "One, two, three, four." "Oh, one, two, three, four." "There he is, ma'am." "Dead ahead." "Easy now, just let her drift." "Got him!" "Just like taking candy from a baby." "Oh, Mr. Allison!" "Oh." "Oh, boy." "Oh." "Oh." "Ma'am!" "Turtle meat's kind of sticky, but it's good." "It's delicious." "ALLISON:" "What is turtle anyway?" "It ain't a fish." "It's a reptile." " You mean like snake?" " Well, of the same family." "It's considered a great delicacy." "It's a gourmet's dish." "No kidding." " Whose dish?" " A person who knows fine food." "You know, with all the things there are to eat on this island there's breadfruit, mangoes, papayas, not to mention the fish in the sea there's no question about us surviving." "We could go on here for years." "And I mean years." "You think it might come to that, Mr. Allison?" "Well, the way this war is going." "Well, isn't there any chance of our own forces landing here?" "Well, the brass plan to bypass a lot of these islands on their way to Tokyo." "At least that's the scuttlebutt." " Scuttle what?" " Scuttlebutt." "You know, the poop." " Poop?" " Like guys beating their gums." " You know, giving out with the rumors." " Oh, yes, of course." "Rumors." "Well, they don't seem to beat their gums on very hopeful poop, do they?" "No, ma'am, they don't." "How far do you figure it is to Fiji, ma'am?" "About 300 miles, Father Phillips said." "Lots of water." " Due south, ain't they?" " I believe so." "That's the way the wind's blowing." "Why, Mr. Allison?" "Why, Mr. Allison?" "Well, I was thinking..." "But no, ma'am, that'd be just plain crazy." "What would?" "Trying to sail down there in a raft." "Everything'd be against our making it." "Even if there weren't Japs around and we could sneak through." "Nobody in their right mind would want to leave this place where there's plenty to eat and good water and sail off to hell and gone..." "Begging your pardon." " In a two-by-four rubber raft and maybe starve to death or die of thirst even if they didn't get drowned." "But you'd like to try." "Is that it, Mr. Allison?" "Well, ma'am..." "Of course you would." "Well, if it was just me, okay, but I couldn't ask you to go and I wouldn't leave you here, so let's forget all about it." "What if I myself would like to try, Mr. Allison?" "I'd say you was crazy too, ma'am." "Thank you, Mr. Allison." "The raft will need a rudder." "I'll figure out a way to fix it." "Could the sail be of palm?" "I know how to thatch." "Good." "ALLISON:" "I sure hope you like fish, ma'am." "After a week when the fruit runs out there's gonna be nothing else but." "Raw fish at that." "Well, I'm sure I'll get used to it." "ALLISON:" "Oh, sure." "Now that was a dope question." "It's a cinch you'd like fish." "With your religion and all." "The guys in the Corps, the ones that see the chaplain the night before an attack have to eat fish on Friday, we call them mackerel snap..." "What is it you call them, Mr. Allison?" "Huh?" "Who?" "The ones who have to eat fish on Fridays." "Oh, we call them..." "Is it "mackerel snappers"?" "Yeah." "That's what some of the guys call them." "But they're good Marines, ma'am." "The best." "ANGELA:" "I'm glad to hear that." " Of what faith are you, Mr. Allison?" " Huh?" "What church did your parents raise you in?" "I didn't have parents." "I was an orphan." "You mean you never knew your parents?" "They died when you were little?" "I mean, there I was at the Allison Street entrance one morning in an egg crate." "Allison Street, Milwaukee." "I figure I'm a..." "I figure I'm illegitimate." "Well, what's the difference, I say." "I got born, didn't I?" "Didn't they teach you religion in the orphanage?" "ALLISON:" "Oh, sure." "Every Sunday an old crack used to come around and go on about what cigarettes would do to your insides and... things." "But I broke out of there when I was 14." "The next few years I seen more halls of corrections and jails than churches." "Then I joined the Marines." "Now you look at me, ma'am." "What do you see besides a big dumb guy?" "I'll tell you." "A Marine, that's what I am." "All through me, a Marine." "Like you're a nun." "You've got your cross, I got my globe and anchor." "[CHUCKLING]" "It took a lot of working over, but they're the ones could do it." "My first D.I., that's Drill Instructor, ma'am when I was a recruit he says, " Lad, I'm gonna make you hate my guts."" "The old peepsight." "He sure kept his promise." "At times I wanted to commit murder." "Then I seen the light." "And I started being a Marine." "Other guys, you know most of them, they got homes, families." "Me, I got the Corps." "Like you got the church." "Yes, I'm sure they have many things in common." "Yeah." "Yeah!" " You should have known my D.I." " Your D.I., ma'am?" "Yes, Sister Brigida, the mistress of novices." "We had a name for her too." "Yeah, what was that?" "We called her the Holy Terror." "Um, I'm not getting personal or anything, ma'am but are you different from other nuns?" "I don't think so." "Well, I never thought nuns made with jokes, you know." " No offense, ma'am." " Of course not." "I never thought there were any pretty nuns either." "Oh, you should have seen Sister Mary Fidelis." "We took our novitiate together." "She was a model before she joined." " Her face was in the fashion magazines." " Yeah?" "Sister Mary Fidelis was the loveliest girl I ever saw." "What did she want to be a nun for?" "Because it gave her greater happiness than anything." "I don't get it." "There are some as wouldn't understand a man wanting to be a Marine." "[PLANE APPROACHES]" "It's a meatball." " A what?" " Japanese." " Oh, do you think they saw me?" " Can't tell." "Maybe." "Oh, I am sorry, Mr. Allison." " Did I hurt you when I pushed you down?" " No, no." "He's coming back." "He's doing a recon job." "Giving this place the once-over." " For what reason, do you think?" " I don't know." "Nothing good." "You know, the other day when we was up there I spotted a cave." "It might not be a bad idea to spend the next few nights in that cave until we get that raft finished, and shove off." " There you are, ma'am, water." " Splendid." "Your bed is made, Mr. Allison." "Oh, thanks, ma'am." "Well, this isn't too bad, is it?" " It's a very pleasant cave indeed." " Land crabs and all?" "ANGELA:" "They're quite harmless." "Well I guess I'll climb into the rack." "Climb?" "Where?" "Bed down." "You know, go to sleep." "Ma'am, if you hear me rustling around in the morning don't let it bother you." "I'm used to cussing and music at 5:30." "No, it won't." "We're always up at 5." "Sounds like you're in a pretty tough outfit, ma'am." "It is, Mr. Allison." "It is." " Good night, ma'am." " Good night, Mr. Allison." "Bless, O Lord, the rest I'm about to take..." "What, ma'am?" "Holy Virgin, Mother of God, after him my only hope my good angel, holy patroness." "Intercede for me and protect me during this night, all my life long particularly at the hour of my death." "Amen." "I was saying my prayers." "ALLISON:" "Oh." "Do you never say yours, Mr. Allison?" "No, ma'am." "Well, did you never pray?" "No, ma'am." "But you do believe in God, the Father?" "Oh, sure, ma'am." "Anybody with any sense believes in God." "[PLANES APPROACHING]" "They're back, ma'am, like I thought." "So you better take it easy." "What I mean, brace yourself." "Things are gonna start popping around here, but don't be scared." "We're safe in this here cave." "This is a made-to-order bomb shelter." "The noise is gonna be fierce, but noise never hurt nobody, ma'am." "I'm all right, truly." "Noise can't hurt us, ma'am." "Don't think me a coward because I'm trembling this way." "Truly, I'm quite calm inside." "Everybody gets the shakes sometimes, ma'am." "Even an old Marine like me." "Nothing to be ashamed of." "It's all over, ma'am." "All over." "We're okay." "Thank God there was no one out there to be killed." "[FIRE CRACKLING]" "ALLISON:" "Thought you might want that, ma'am." "This island's sure beat up, huh?" "Fruit's all blasted." "There isn't a whole coconut left." "Our..." "Our trip to Fiji's off, ma'am." " The raft?" " It's done for." "I was about to say things couldn't look blacker, when all of a sudden they do." "What do you mean?" "There's a Japanese ship coming around the point." "[GUNSHOTS ECHOING]" " Why are they shooting?" " They gotta have shooting." "Wouldn't be a proper landing without shooting." "ANGELA:" "Well, when they find nothing, will they leave, do you think?" "From the stuff they're bringing, I'd say they're gonna make a weather station." "Give Tokyo the dope on which way the wind's blowing, if it's raining." "We'd better crawl back in our hole." "They'll be coming up for a look-see." "There ain't much we won't know about this cave before we're through." "Fact is, you've had your last look at the outside for a pretty long time." "With that white nun's dress, you won't dare stick your nose outside." "Even at night if there's a moon." "I'm gonna ask you to sit down and be real quiet." "Make like a statue." "Don't speak, even to whisper, beginning right now." "[MEN YELLING IN JAPANESE]" "[GUNSHOTS]" "Our luck's holding, ma'am." "For a minute there I thought we was gonna be on the receiving end of a grenade but I guess they was just getting their breaths." "You can talk now, ma'am, if you want to." " Mr. Allison?" " Yeah?" "I'm going to turn myself over to the Japanese." "What?" "I think it's the only thing for me to do." "What kind of talk is that?" "Alone you might be able to survive, but not with me to feed too." "Turn yourself over?" "The worst that could happen to me is that I'd be interned in some safe place." "That ain't the worst that could happen." "I'm sure they would respect my vocation and do me no harm." "Maybe you're right, I don't know." "But that's the point." "Not knowing, I'd blow my top." "I'd be throwing coconuts at them." "Look, for the sake of my morale, ma'am, let's not have any more talk like that." "As far as feeding another mouth is concerned, leave that to the Marines." "Please try, ma'am." "Like me." "Look." "One, into the mouth." "Two, chew twice." "Three, swallow." "I'm sorry, Mr. Allison." "I'm afraid I'm not a very good mackerel snapper." "[WATER SPLASHING]" "[ASIAN MUSIC PLAYING]" "[MEN SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "[CHUCKLING]" "Mr. Allison?" "Mr. Allison?" "[CHUCKLING]" "[DOOR LOCKS]" "[DOOR OPENS]" "[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]" "[BUGLE PLAYS]" "ANGELA:" "Hail Mary, full of grace..." "[MAN YELLING IN JAPANESE]" "[MAN YELLING IN JAPANESE]" "[BUGLE PLAYS]" "[MAN 1 YELLING IN JAPANESE]" "[MAN 2 YELLS IN JAPANESE]" "[MAN 3 SHOUTING IN JAPANESE]" "[MAN 4 YELLING IN JAPANESE]" "[MAN 3 SPEAKS IN JAPANESE]" "[GROANS]" "[MEN MUMBLING]" "ALLISON:" "Ma'am." "Ma'am." "Sister Angela." " You're alive!" "Oh, you're alive." " Shh." "Quiet, ma'am." "Of course I am, alive and kicking." " I heard shooting, and I..." " Didn't I say never to leave the cave?" "I'm very put out with you." "Yes, I am." "Put out." " I thought they'd killed you." " Inside." "I got something to show you." "Now, no more crying, ma'am." "Look, we got food, lots of it." "Bean sprouts, beef, water chestnuts, cans and cans." "I woke up and you weren't there." "I waited." "It became morning and you didn't come." " Come on and eat." "You need to." " I thought you were dead." "Go ahead, ma'am, eat." "Promise me you'll never go again without telling me." "I'll never sleep." "I'd be afraid to close me eyes." "Promise me now, promise." "ALLISON:" "Sure, ma'am." "Do you like it?" "Oh, it's beautiful, Mr. Allison." "The teeth are a little wide apart maybe but it's the best I could do with only a knife." " Do you really like it, ma'am?" " Oh, yes." "But, you see, we don't use combs." "Our hair is worn very short." "Oh, it is?" "From the day we take our vows." "ALLISON:" "Mmm." "Shows you how dumb I am." "Well, I guess I could always use it to comb my beard." "Mr. Allison, may I have it for a keepsake?" "Sure." "I shall cherish it always." "You know, I bet your hair was long and yellow and wavy." "Didn't bother you to have it cut off like that, huh?" "It's no great sacrifice." "Um, Ma'am suppose a nun changed her mind." "She didn't want to be a nun anymore." "What could she do about it?" "Our vows are not taken lightly, Mr. Allison." "You mean no nun ever got out?" "Well, it has happened, but rarely." "If the reasons are truly grave His Holiness in Rome sometimes grants a special dispensation." " Huh?" " Permission from the pope." "Oh." "Without that, it would be like a Marine's going over the hill?" " What?" " Desertion." "Worse, much worse." "They wouldn't shoot you?" "We would lose our immortal souls." "Oh." "But such a thing is inconceivable because we're given such a long time to make up our minds and our hearts." "You are?" "Even after our novitiate we have five years and only then do we take our final vows." "I was to have taken mine next month." "You was...?" "What's that?" "I said, I was to have taken my final vows next month." "You mean..." "You still, if you wanted to, you still could... pull out?" "I could, if my mind and my heart were not made up." "[THUDDING]" "[EXPLOSIONS]" "Guns." "Heavy stuff." "[PLANES APPROACHING]" "[CHEERING]" "Battle wagons slugging it out." "Like having two-dollar seats to a Joe Louis fight, ain't it?" "Just too far away to see anything." "Wow!" "That one found the magazines." "Hey, ma'am!" "Ma'am!" "Sister Angela!" "They've gone!" "Come on out!" " Do you hear me, ma'am?" " Yes, Mr. Allison." "Coming." "Coming, Mr. Allison!" "They've gone, ma'am." "Pulled out during the night." "Every mother's son." " They've really gone!" " Don't have to whisper now." "You can shout if you want to." "ALLISON:" "Yahoo!" "ALLISON:" "They left all kinds of stuff, ma'am." "Rice." "Soup, even." "We're sitting pretty, ma'am." "[HUMMING]" "[SINGS "DON'T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE"]" "We're pitching us a liberty, ma'am." "Know how I'd like to start?" "By washing my clothes and getting clean again." "[SINGS]" "[ANGELA HUMMING]" "[ALLISON HUMMING]" "ALLISON:" "Some moon, ain't it, ma'am?" "Things are just as bright as day almost." "Funny, it seems bigger than that stateside moon, huh?" "It's a lovely moon to sew by." "[HUMMING]" "What a gay little song." "Do you know the words, Mr. Allison?" "[SINGS "DON'T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE"]" "Ah, this terrible war, taking young men from their sweethearts." "Is there someone back home waiting for you, Mr. Allison?" " No, ma'am." " That's hard to believe." "Big handsome fellow like you should have a wife and family." "Yes, ma'am." "Ma'am, there's something I'd like to say to you." "Yes, Mr. Allison?" "Well it's like this, ma'am." "Yes, Mr. Allison?" "You know them big red flowers?" " Hibiscus?" " Yeah, well if you like, I'll pick some for you." "Thank you." "Mr. Allison, would it be all right if I sleep out in the open?" "It's such a lovely night." "Oh, sure, ma'am." "I'll fix a lean-to for you on the hill so you can duck into the cave quick if you have to." "What do you think will happen next, Mr. Allison?" "I don't know." "That big sea battle, maybe we won it." "That's why the Japanese pulled out, and it's our guys' turn to clobber the island." " Would they make a landing afterwards?" " Figures." " Do you think they'll come soon?" " Ought to be right away." "Oh..." "Oh, I hope." "I hope!" "Ma'am, I just got to tell you." "What?" "When you go back home again, ma'am, don't do it, please." "Please don't." "Don't do what?" "Don't take those vows." "Those final ones." "Don't do it, ma'am." "I, um..." "I never loved anything or anybody before." "I never even lived before." "Not really lived inside." "So that's why I want to ask you to marry me." "I want to look after you." "Not only while we're here, but for the rest of our lives." "I couldn't keep from saying it, ma'am." "So tell me if there's a chance, huh?" "I don't mean to give offense, ma'am, but is there?" "No, Mr. Allison." "You see, I've already given my heart to Christ our Lord." "You mean like you was engaged or something?" "Yes." "This is the ring." "And when I make my final vows, I'll wear a gold one." "A marriage ring." "Oh, I didn't know." "I didn't know it was set up like that." "I guess I didn't have no right to speak." "Well, guess I'll go fix that lean-to for you." "Hello, ma'am." "Well, no sign of them yet." "Our guys, I mean." " But you do think they're coming?" " They've got to!" "Of course, nothing's certain in this crazy war." "Ma'am?" "Yes, Mr. Allison?" "I must have been off my rocker last night." "A Marine oughtn't to get married." "It ain't fair to his family or the Corps." "One of them's got to get the short end." "Like just before an attack, he asks himself, " Which is better?" "A dead husband or a bad Marine?" He ends up both." "Even in peacetime marriage ain't no good." "A Marine gets sent all over the world." "What I mean, there's all kinds of temptations, so it's better, you know, that he ain't tied down, like." "You do me a favor, ma'am." "Just forget I opened my big mouth." "Certainly, Mr. Allison." "The rice'll be ready in a minute." "Look, Mr. Allison, what I found in the rice sack." "It has a most peculiar odor." "I wonder what it could be." "Well, ma'am, I'll tell you." "That's sake." "It's kind of a Japanese drink." "Oh, yes, sake." "Isn't that the wine made from rice?" "Well, it's kind of like wine, only a little bit stronger." "Will you have one with me?" "Well..." "Perhaps." "Just a small one." "Here's how." "How." "Oh, yes, it is strong isn't it?" "Oh." "Oh." "Mr. Allison, what's the matter?" "Matter?" "Nothing's the matter." "What makes you think something's the matter?" "Well, you haven't eaten anything." "Haven't I?" "Mr. Allison?" "Don't you think you've you've had enough sake?" "No, ma'am." "I'm pitching myself a liberty." "[SINGS "DON'T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE"]" "[SIGHS]" "What do you want to be a nun for?" "Mr. Allison." "Please." "Just my luck." "That's old Allison's luck." "If you had to be a nun, why ain't you old and ugly?" "Huh?" "Mr. Allison, I think I've mastered this this Japanese game." "It's a little like draughts." "Why do you have to have big blue eyes?" "And a beautiful smile?" "Freckles?" "Did you ever play draughts?" "No, ma'am." "Only craps." "Craps." "Acey-deucy." "Well, then, I'll teach you." "It's quite simple." "Now then." "You're white and I'm black." "And the object of the game is to take each other's men." "That's all old Allison needs." "A game of draughts." "That'll fix everything up." " You don't want to play?" " No, ma'am." "I mean yes, ma'am." "I mean I don't want to play no game of draughts." "Yes." "Well, then, in that case I think I'll say good night." "Good night, ma'am." "Mr. Allison!" "Poor Father Phillips loved this pipe." "You ought to be ashamed." "What good is it without tobacco?" "Let me tell you something, ma'am." "We're gonna be on this island for years and years." "Till the war's over anyway." "If our guys were coming, they would've been here by now." "What I mean, we been bypassed." "Have we, Mr. Allison?" "It's just you and me." "See?" "What's the point your being a nun if we're all alone?" "Answer me that." "You can't, can you?" "Because there ain't no point." "No more than in my being a Marine." "What would you do all day?" "Pray?" "And I..." "I'd drill, I guess, huh?" "I can see that." "You telling those beads and me doing the manual of arms." "Different ends of the island." "We don't belong to nothing beyond this island." "All we got is it and each other." "Like Adam and Eve." "Like we was the first two people on Earth and this is the Garden of Eden." "[SOBBING]" "What you crying about, ma'am?" "Come back, ma'am!" "Sister Angela, where are you?" "Come back this very minute!" "Do you hear me, ma'am?" "Answer me!" "Please, ma'am, answer me." "Where are you, ma'am?" "Ma'am..." "[ANGELA MUMBLING]" "What'd you wanna run off like that for, ma'am?" "I didn't mean what I said." "Any of it." "I was only drunk-talking." "You don't have to be afraid of me, ma'am." "I wouldn't hurt you." "I'd rather die first." "[ANGELA MUMBLING]" "ALLISON:" "Here, ma'am." "Now, ma'am." "Shh." "Put out the light!" "Sister Brigida's coming." " No, no." "Ma'am." " I didn't, I didn't do..." "Cold." "I'm cold." "[MEN CHEERING]" "[SHOUTING]" "[MAN SCREAMING]" "[BABBLING]" "Ma'am, we gotta get them wet clothes off you." " Do you hear me, ma'am?" " Huh?" "Huh?" " You gotta help me, ma'am." " Huh?" "We gotta get them wet clothes off you." "Mr. Allison?" "Yes, ma'am?" "What's happened?" "You been sick, ma'am." "Awful sick." "Have I?" "Two, three days now." "You've been out of your head, like." "Why are we in the cave?" "The Japanese have come back." "Oh, I..." "You were shaking with cold, ma'am." "I had to get you out of them wet clothes." "Thank you, Mr. Allison." "I don't deserve no thanks." "It was my fault you got sick." "I was drunk, and you got scared of me and ran away from me in the rain." "I ran away?" "Oh, yes." "Please forgive me, ma'am." "I wasn't running from you." "You wouldn't have done me any harm." "I knew that." "I was running from the truth." "How's that, ma'am?" "There was a great deal of truth in what you said." "No there wasn't, ma'am." "Not a bit." "I said we was gonna be alone on this island for years." "The very next thing 2000 Japanese show up." "How wrong can a guy get?" "Dear Mr. Allison." "They might not be here tomorrow." "Or tomorrow might not come." "Perhaps God doesn't intend me to take my final vows." "We're living from hour to hour." "Only he knows what'll happen to us." "And he won't tell, huh, ma'am?" "He might." "[MAN 1 YELLING IN JAPANESE]" "[MAN 2 YELLING IN JAPANESE]" "They're swarming all over burning down the grass and the bamboo groves." "But why, Mr. Allison?" " Do you know why?" " Must have found the body." "Body?" "What body?" "The one got his throat cut." "You killed a man?" "It was a case of had to, ma'am." "He come at me." " When you went to get the blankets." " Yes, ma'am." "Dear God, forgive me!" "You had to kill a man because I ran away." "That's crazy talk, ma'am." "He was the enemy." "It's my duty to destroy the enemy." "I've been neglecting it, you might say, on account of you." "[MAN YELLING IN JAPANESE]" "They're coming up here." "I'm gonna do a fast turn outside." "Show my tail, then lose them and double back." " Now you just sit tight." " No, Mr. Allison." "We'll remain here, or we'll go out, as you wish, but together." "All right, ma'am." "Dear God, Mr. Allison here is not of the Church." "He's only a Marine, but he is a good man, brave and very, very honest." "I implore thee when his time comes to be merciful and receive him into thy holy presence." "MAN:" "Hey, Joe!" "Come out with hands up!" "Okay, Joe, you get grenade." "ALLISON:" "Ma'am!" "You all right, ma'am?" "ANGELA:" "Yes." "That wasn't a grenade." "It was a bomb." "Bombs falling!" "[SIREN WAILING]" "[GUNFIRE ECHOING]" "ALLISON:" "That's the stuff, Navy!" "Yeah!" "Pour it on them!" "They're here!" "It's our guys!" "They're here!" "Look at them!" "And they got a landing force standing off the shore!" "Hey, guys!" "Come on." "[SINGS "DON'T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE"]" "Funny, our stuff sounds different than the Japanese stuff." "I mean, our stuff sounds good, like firecrackers to a kid." "When will they try to land?" "Try!" "What do you mean try?" "They'll land if they're Marines." "Of course, if they're Marines." "They'll come ashore when it starts getting light." "Will there be many casualties?" "It figures." "The Navy'll cease fire just before our guys hit the beach." "Then the Japanese'll come crawling out and open up with the 105's." " 105's?" " Big rifles, ma'am." "Rough on landing craft." "The Japanese have got four of them." "Hid real good." "Yeah, that's the tough time." "That last two, three hundred yards." "Half the guys get it, get it then." "What time is it, Mr. Allison?" "It ain't 5 yet." "About an hour to go." "What is it, Mr. Allison?" "Remember saying God might tell us what's gonna happen?" "Yes." "His voice don't have to be big and loud, does it, and come from above?" "Oh, no." "It usually comes from within." "In that case, I think he's talking to me right now." " Truly, Mr. Allison?" " Yeah, yeah." "Well, what's he saying?" "He's saying this here landing is gonna be real easy." " Without hardly anybody getting killed." " Oh, thanks be to Him." "All it needs is for them 105's to be put out of commission." "And is there a way to do that?" "Yes, ma'am." "He just told me the way." "It's so simple I should have thought of it myself." "You just keep pouring it in, Navy." "Keep their heads down for a half-hour and you leave the rest to me." "Mr. Allison." "Are you sure it's God you're obeying, not your desire to take part in the fighting?" "Pretty sure, ma'am." "Then he'll protect you." "Ow!" "[WATER SPLASHING]" "ALLISON:" "Well, mission accomplished, like they say." " Oh." " And I ain't killed nothing." "Oh." "Oh, lie down, Mr. Allison." "Small arms." "They're ashore." "Come on, Marines." "Hubba, hubba." "We're coming to the end of our time together." "We'll be seeing each other on and off for a couple days maybe but it won't ever be just the two of us again, so I'd like to say this now." "I'm very pleased to have met you, ma'am." "It was a privilege to know you." "I wish you every happiness." "Goodbye." "Goodbye, Mr. Allison." "No matter how many miles apart we are or whether I ever get to see your face again you will be my dear companion always." "Always." "Hey, Marine, you got a cigarette?" "I don't get it, captain." "Four howitzers, plenty of ammo but no breechblocks." "They haven't fired a round." "Beats me." "[WHISTLING]" "Subtitles by SDI Media Group" "[ENGLISH SDH]"