"Go inside." "Hurry up" "This way" "Hurry up" "this'll do Which one are you gonna have?" "that's mine" "Allez hup!" "Danny?" "Over 200 feet" "I'd say 300" "Long ways to dig" "We'll get Cavendish to make a survey I wish Big X were here you think X got away?" "He'd have sent us word somehow if he had you think?" "Either that or he's dead" "Group Captain Ramsey?" "Yes please?" "sir Right" "Gruppenkommandeur Ramsey" "Group Captain you are to be liaison between the prisoners and the colonel" "He wishes to make clear to you certain matters of the word is "policy"?" "Yes" "Thank you" "Gruppenkommandeur Ramsey" "I am Colonel Von Luger Please sit down" "in the past four years manpower and equipment hunting down escaping prisoner-of-war officers isn't it?" "For us it's not a matter for levity There will be no escapes from this camp it is the sworn duty of all officers to try to escape it is their duty to cause the enemy to use an inordinate number of troops to guard them" "and their sworn duty to harass the enemy to the best of their ability" "I know" "The men under your authority have been most successful for example recaptured" "Archibald "Archie" Ives:" "11 escape attempts" "Even tried to jump out of the truck coming here" "William" "Known to have participated in digging of 11 escape tunnels" "Flight Lieutenant Willinski: four escapes the American: five" "Haynes: four Sedgwick: seven The list is almost endless" "One man here has made 17 attempted escapes this is close to insanity" "Quite And it must stop!" "do you expect officers to forget their duty?" "No" "It is because we expect the opposite that we have brought you here" "This is a new camp" "It has been built to hold you and your men" "It is organised to incorporate all we have learned of security measures but with a staff officer personally selected for the task by the Luftwaffe high command and we intend to watch this basket carefully" "Very wise" "You will not be denied the usual facilities and for gardening we will give you tools" "We trust you to use them for gardening" "Devote your energies to these things" "Give up your hopeless attempts to escape we may all sit out the war" "as comfortably as possible" "What do you do here by the truck?" "I'm stealing tools cooler I was only kidding and you're a German" "Of course Why do you come to Germany?" "your enemy?" "Enemy?" "What are you talkin' about?" "In 181 2 they burned your capital That's propaganda" "It's in the history books I read it cooler" "Yeah No tools" "Virgil did you see the cooler?" "is it ever a big one!" "I think they expect a lot of business Yeah" "I can't find them" "You think the goons left 'em behind?" "I guess" "What were their names?" "It was Jackson and" "And Dexter Dexter That's right" "I'm gonna see who else I can find I'll see you later" "Danny Who are they?" "Russian prisoners They cut down trees they take them out" "cigarettes" "Danny and I have a blitz in mind Could you put on a brief show for the goons?" "man What'll it be?" "An all-out go?" "eh?" "Yeah Knuckles will be fine Give him the coat mate?" "What?" "It's mine!" "Are you pushing me?" "you son of a" "Stop it!" "Stop this nonsense!" "mate We're just having a friendly little argument" "No more fighting No more!" "All right sir too!" "Get away!" "Get back in your huts!" "Go on!" "Hilts Looks like there's only one other American in the whole camp" "Some guy named Hendley in the RAF Eagle squadron you got something goin' already?" "See the way the goons got those towers placed?" "There's a blind spot through the middle A blind spot?" "A guy could stand at that wire and not be seen by either tower especially at night" "You're crazy You think so?" "Let's find out right now" "the next step's a little tricky" "I'm not" "I think I'll take a little walk" "you speak Russian?" "Only one sentence mate" "What's it mean?" "I love you" "I love you?" "What bloody good is that?" "I don't know I wasn't going to use it myself" "Out Out!" "yes?" "Huh?" "Lieutenant Willinski?" "Sedgwick" "hold it!" "Your name?" "Ives" "Ives yes Archibald Ives Scots" "The photograph doesn't do you justice" "I'd like to see one of you under similar circumstances" "I will not take action against you now" "This is the first day here and there has been much stupidity and carelessness on both sides" "Hey!" "Get out!" "Don't shoot!" "You fool!" "To cross the wire is death!" "What wire?" "This wire!" "The warning wire!" "It's absolutely forbidden to cross it You know that" "But my baseball rolled over there How am I gonna get my baseball?" "OK" "Gettin' my baseball Stop this!" "Get over the wire immediately!" "OK You stay there!" "Out of the way Out" "What are you doing over here by the wire?" "I was trying to get my" "like I told Max because I wanna get out" "Do you speak German?" "Wire cutters" "I have had the pleasure of knowing quite a number of British officers in this war" "And I flatter myself that we understand one another" "isn't it?" "actually sir engineer Flier" "I suppose what's called in the American army a "hotshot pilot you were shot down anyway" "So we are both grounded for the duration of the war" "Colonel" "You have other plans?" "I haven't seen Berlin yet" "I plan on doing so before the war's over" "Are all American officers so ill-mannered?" "About 99 per cent you will have a chance to learn some" "Hilts" "Captain Hilts 20 days" "Right you'll still be here when I get out?" "Cooler" "Name?" "Ives" "Flying Officer Ives" "Cooler 20 days" "Ives Pleasure" "Hilts Yeah?" "What did you do in the States?" "Play baseball?" "I was in college" "Ives Aye?" "seven under" "I am that" "Ives?" "Five feet four Why?" "just wondering" "What did you do in college?" "Study physical education?" "though" "Bicycles?" "county fairs Picked up a buck here and there" "Helped pay my tuition I did a wee bit of racing myself" "In Scotland Bikes?" "horse racing Jockey" "Jockey" "Jockey" "Hilts?" "Hilts?" "I'm here" "Don't you have them in the States?" "Jockeys?" "Sure" "They were the days Saturday nights in towns like Musselburgh and Hamilton" "You had to fight off the birds birds man Girls" "Do you not have them in the States?" "Hilts?" "Hilts?" "Ives" "What?" "You know the kind of clay and gravel we got here in the compound?" "How many feet do you think you could get through in eight hours?" "I could go through this dirt here like the bit on an end of an auger" "But you know it's not the digging It's the shoring up with wood and getting the dirt out - that's what you've to worry about" "Ives You don't have to worry about that" "How are you going to get the dirt out?" "What do they call a mole in Scotland?" "A mole" "Aye what do you think?" "it's an interesting first 20 minutes" "I'd say we made fools of ourselves this is only the first day" "Eric" "Don't take too much notice The goons may not know who he is" "I'll pass the word I'll tell the old man" "He has arrived" "Colonel Von Luger" "I suggest this prisoner be kept under the strictest security confinement permanently" "Make a note of Herr Kuhn's suggestion" "We have reason to believe he is the leader of numerous criminal escape attempts and the Gestapo has only "reason to believe"?" "he will not be so lucky or the Gestapo" "Herr Oberst" "That is why he is returned for the moment to your care the prisoners will find themselves totally in our charge" "We regretfully are not so professionally understanding you will be shot" "Herr Kuhn" "Roger too What's this one like?" "it's new" "Here Let's find you a bed" "Thanks" "Come in sir" "Eric" "How are you?" "As well as can be expected but that's for later" "I saw Willie and Willinski with Mac A lot of old friends here sir?" "Arrived today the elite" "You met the commandant?" "I did" "What were the Gestapo and the SS doing with you?" "They wanted to find out who helped me to the border" "Who else is here?" "Cavendish?" "Haynes" "Blythe?" "Yes" "Almost the whole X organisation" "Almost They cleaned out all the other camps and dumped us in this one" "As Von Luger put it:" ""All the rotten eggs in one basket" "There's madness in their method" "What about Tommy Bristol?" "but there's an American Hendley blackmailer?" "MacDonald says he's the best Good" "Last of the tea until the Red Cross gets through again" "I scrounged this from Sedgwick" "Did the Gestapo give you a rough time?" "Not nearly as rough as I now intend to give them personal revenge must be kept out of what we have to do here" "Too many lives are at stake" "What my personal feelings are is of no importance confound and confuse the enemy to the best of my ability" "That's true That's what I intend to do" "I'm gonna cause such a terrible stink in this Third Reich of theirs that thousands of troops'll be tied up here looking after us" "How?" "By putting more men out of this perfect camp of theirs than have ever escaped before" "300 Scatter them all over Germany" "Think that's possible?" "The men are here to do it" "The goons have put every escape artist in Germany here You said so yourself" "Have you thought of what it might cost? knuckle under and crawl sir?" "Roger not the Gestapo and the SS then the SS and the Gestapo" "To me they're the same We're fighting the bloody lot sir" "They are the common enemies of everyone who believes in freedom why didn't they throw him out?" "Roger" "I'm merely pointing out a pertinent fact" "X?" "Tonight" "no doubt you've heard the immortal words of our new commandant" "Devote your energies to things other than escape and sit out the war as comfortably as possible" "that's exactly what we're going to do all the cultural pursuits as far as they're concerned we're going to put the goons to sleep we dig" "even a superficial look at the compound shows us that huts 104 and 5 are closest to the woods directly east under the cooler and the wire" "Roger sir" "I make it just over 335 feet Tell me when you've got an exact one this time we'll dig straight down 30 feet before we go horizontal" "That'll rule out any question of sound detection or probing but did you say the first tunnel?" "I did There'll be three" "Dick and Harry Tom goes out directly east from 104 and Harry goes out parallel to Tom from 105" "we'll move into the other" "Roger?" "250" "There'll be no half measures this time Identification papers for everyone we'll need outfits for the lot" "250?" "Mostly civilian clothes but" "Roger compasses for all the walkers" "Roger" "Colin Sit down" "We're going to tunnel" "Splendid you'll be in charge of traps tailor will take care of intelligence" "Hendley We haven't met" "Scrounger?" "Right maps and surveys how are you gonna get rid of this dirt?" "but we'll manage who's going to handle security for all this?" "You are I want a system of stooges covering this compound checking every goon in and out" "I want a signal system so perfect that if ever a ferret gets within 50 feet we can shut down without a sign" "I don't think there's much point in discussing any more now and we'll pound out the details" "Mac?" "Roger" "hello" "My name's Blythe" "Hendley" "For birds I used to do a little hunting myself not hunting Watching a bird watcher?" "that's right Watching them and drawing them" "I suppose you have bird watchers in the States?" "we have some" "Tea?" "in the hospital" "Where's your kit?" "This is it The rest was confiscated in the last shakedown" "The goons didn't appreciate some of my more personal items" "Such as that's right" "I'll need a camera" "What kind?" "A good one" "A 35mm f28 with a focal-plane shutter should do all right" "All right of course" "Hendley I need a pick Big heavy one" "Only one?" "Two would be better" "I'm afraid this tea's pathetic" "I must have used these wretched leaves about 20 times" "It's not that I mind so much" "Tea without milk is so uncivilised" "Yeah" "I'll get our wood" "Close up!" "Close up!" "Close up!" "Close up!" "Close up!" "No me sprechen the English Close up!" "Splendid" "what are you doing here?" "I'm in Photographic Aerial Reconnaissance lnterpretation" "Went for a joyride to see for myself It's my own silly fault" "The aircraft bought it Got shot down Terrifying what do you do here?" "Here?" "I'm the forger" "Forgers are installing themselves in the recreation hut" "Sedgwick?" "I'm in 1 10" "Roger 109?" "Right" "Willie and their trap team will be in 104" "I want to take a chance on the tunnels and press ahead without any shoring-up" "We will need timber for the shafts and the entrance chambers" "Hendley figures there are 36 empty bunks" "We can tear up 1 5 and move the men around so the goons won't miss them" "The rest will come from strips off the wall" "Is Hendley taking care of this himself?" "Not yet" "He's working on some steel for a pick that Danny needs" "Hey!" "What the hell is going on here?" "Turn the water off!" "Get your hands away!" "Get away!" "Hey!" "What the hell's going on there?" "Stop this nonsense!" "Get away!" "Turn the water off!" "Somewhere!" "we keep fire burning always The goons will not feel like moving it they are chipped" "We need new ones There's some in 1 1 3's washroom" "Should match perfectly Good" "Danny" "Mac" "We're ready Big enough?" "It's perfect Right through the middle of the foundation" "Danny" "Why 17?" "This is the 17th tunnel Danny's started" "All right?" "It's good" "It's very good" "Get out!" "Get out!" "You're not in your hut?" "What are you doing here?" "Mopping up" "And you?" "Shower I need a wash" "I'm watching him I'm a lifeguard" "Put on warm clothes You might be outside all night" "we've put the goons to sleep exactly like you said" "But just one little thing like this and we're up the creek without a paddle sir" "Captain Hilts" "Flight Lieutenant MacDonald" "I understand you two are contemplating a blitz-out" "Where'd you hear that sir?" "MacDonald It's Mac's job to know everything that goes on" "We thought perhaps we might talk it over" "Why?" "It's only a two-man job" "Everybody in the camp is supposed to clear all escape attempts in advance with Squadron Leader Bartlett here" "We don't necessarily want to interfere what sort of blitz were you contemplating?" "We sneak out at night to a spot I found near the wire a blind spot and then straight out pushes the dirt behind him then we burrow through the dirt like a couple of moles into the woods and gone" "Well" "When do you intend to try this?" "tonight this may not be quite the right time for this sort of thing bloody close to being wire-happy or forget it" "It'll work I know it will" "Good luck" "Thank you um how do you breathe?" "We got a steel rod with hinges on it" "We shove it up and make air holes as we go along sir" "why didn't anybody think of that before?" "it's positively brilliant" "But it'll bring every goon in the camp down on top of us" "I don't know Perhaps we're being too clever it may only convince the goons that we must be tunnelling they're going to be in the cooler for an awful long time" "it's bloody beautiful" "This is the dirt from the compound This is from the tunnel" "they're going to spot it a mile away" "Maybe we could put it under the huts The dirt's dark there" "It's the first place the ferrets would look I saw one measuring yesterday" "Maybe we could dry it to the same colour" "There are 50 tons of it I was just thinking out loud think clearly" "Where the devil is Ashley-Pitt?" "We can't destroy the dirt and we can't eat it" "The only thing left to do is camouflage it" "That's as far as my thinking takes me" "Didn't they teach you promptness in the RN?" "but I think I have the solution" "The problem is somehow to get rid of this tunnel dirt over the compound of course" "Would you mind?" "Now you fill these bags with the dirt from the tunnel you wander out into the compound where you pull these strings in your pockets" "Out come the pins it's good All you have to do is kick it in the ferrets won't see a thing" "Roger?" "We'll try it first thing tomorrow I already have It works this is what we'll do" "Nimmo" "sir" "All right Let's look sharp" "That looks sharp" "Sir" "continue This is merely a routine inspection" "sir" "I am sorry the soil here isn't better suited to your men's purpose sir" "Group Captain" "Colonel?" "not peasants to dig in the earth So I am surprised" "The English are keen on gardening but flowers Is this not so?" "Colonel" "Good point" "I have the nasty feeling he knows exactly what we're doing do you?" "we'll find out soon enough" "Bob Andy let's see two packets two tins one jar six packets" "Cavendish mine" "Von Luger's I liberated it from his mess supplies yes And Dutch chocolate Two bars" "That cleans out the gift food for the entire organisation the first thing we need is the new form of travel permit" "The forgers have no idea what it looks like" "I'll see what I can do documents you can put your hands on" "Bob Right" "Good luck" "O come all ye faithful" "Joyful and triumphant" "O come ye" "O come ye to Bethlehem" "Come and behold Him" "Born the King of Angels" "O come let us adore Him" "O come let us adore Him" "O come let us adore Him where the hell is the air pump?" "Roger and this is holding us up very badly" "Is it finished?" "Of course" "Why isn't it in?" "Working on the air ducts now when will they be finished?" "One or two days" "Does it work?" "Of course it works" "Will it give us enough air?" "As much as you'll need" "Mac" "Excellent" "Have it in by tomorrow night" "Christ the Lord" "Got a light?" "Yeah" "Thanks isn't it?" "Yes" "I'm sorry Would you like one?" "I'll smoke it later when I'm off duty Thank you huh?" "but I think it might rain later no sailor takes warning sailor's delight" "It was a red sky last night" "I never heard that before" "I learned it in the Boy Scouts" "You were a Boy Scout?" "So was I Really?" "Yes I had 19 merit badges I had 20" "I was working on my 20th when the government abolished scouting and sent me into the Hitler Youth instead" "you think you'll stay in the army after the war?" "No I'm not a well man" "And my teeth Your teeth?" "Yes I could tell you stories about my teeth that would make your hair stand on end" "Our dentist here is a butcher" "But don't tell anyone I said so" "It's a soldier's right to complain but here?" "and to the Russian front" "Is that so?" "Terrible" "That's terrible" "Werner" "Why don't we go into my room?" "I'd better not If Strachwitz should see me" "I was just gonna make some coffee" "Real coffee" "coffee" "Where is it?" "My grandmother keeps sending me this stuff" "yeah Here Take one" "Yeah Keep it" "Nein I must go" "It's OK You can keep it We're friends will we be friends?" "I must report this" "I don't understand you Report what?" "That you and I were chatting in my room?" "keep it" "I'll never be able to eat it all I've got all I could eat" "I'm sorry All right Forget it Forget it" "is the voice of the Nelles warbler" "Let's turn our attention to this gentleman - the masked shrike" "Lanius nubicus The butcherbird" "The shrike impales his foes on the spikes of thorn bushes you see Let's have a look at the colouring from head to tail and a white line over the eye" "The shrike lives in lightly wooded country" "Ah Hendley Sit down You'll find drawing materials on the table olive groves and gardens have you taken to birds too now?" "Yeah Stick around You might learn something" "I have better things to do than draw birds complaining notes let's have a good look at this bird He's got a round shape" "An Urlaubsschein Permission to cross a frontier Here's another one" "Which one's the forgery?" "That one That's right" "They both are" "What's holding us up now is the new form of this travel permit" "We've no idea what they look like Here's one" "And a military identity card" "And a" "An Ausweis Yeah" "Permission to be on Reich property A ticket to Oden" "What appears to be the ferret assignments for the next week old boy sir Take good care of that Where did you get this?" "It's on loan I suggest that we work mainly from service uniforms and rather nice lounge suits" "Lapels I can do quite a lot of things with those" "I can have them deep like that or high ones like that" "Here's one that we're working on right now yes What about buttons?" "Roger" "And here's one that I dyed with a bottle of blue ink" "Roger?" "The goons'd have a field day if they crashed in on this lot" "I've started working on the other materials" "This blanket" "Particularly the stripes Marvellous" "Coats Yes" "I've got the chaps working on these all over the compound" "Those battle dresses - I'm afraid they're a bit too short" "I'll have to get the chaps to make those into some sort of workingman's outfits" "Blanket ticking" "I've made these into rather nice little waistcoats of course Of course" "Roger and then dye it with boot polish" "Corduroy scrounged by Hendley I wish we had more of this" "Where in God's name did you get these?" "Hendley" "Where did he get them?" "I asked him that" "What did he say?" ""Don't ask" "Let me show you some of the overcoats I've been working on" "Hilts" "I am" "When?" "17 days 7th of July" "Dark of the moon Correct" "Is Ives going with you?" "if he wants to" "You know that Ives is close to cracking?" "Yeah" "Better for him to go out in the tunnel?" "Safer" "Right but there are in fact a considerable number of people besides yourself in this camp who are trying to escape" "I appreciate that" "Something's coming I can feel it " "Squadron Leader" "Roger isn't it?" "Hilts Just make it Hilts that is" "We have all the information we need for the escape routes out of Germany" "But what we do not have" "Is a clear idea of what's 500 yards beyond those trees" "We've tried every goon in the camp No go" "We must know the exact position of the local town" "We want to know where we hit the main roads where they've got their roadblocks we've got to know how to get from here to the railway station I'm not gonna be making maps for you guys you won't hear if they're shooting at me with howitzers" "Understandable Completely but" "Interesting idea" "How many you taking out?" "250" "250?" "Yeah" "You're crazy You too just like that some cross-country rations" "You're gonna alert every goon in the country" "Anybody that can carry a pitchfork is gonna be out looking for you" "They're gonna swoop down and scoop you up so fast it'd make your head swim anyway let me know That's good of you" "Any time" "Wait a minute You aren't seriously suggesting that if I get through the wire to turn myself in and get thrown back in the cooler so you can get the information you need?" "Yes One has to ask some very strange things in the job I have" "We'll give you a front place I wouldn't do that for my own mother then then" "Hilts" "Check l it's all right Blythe's a friend" "my identity card" "Gone I lost them Everything" "He lost his wallet" "Do you realise what would happen if Strachwitz found this out?" "dear" "every place" "I must have lost them while I was in here" "No Yes" "I told you we were friends We'll find them" "Herr Hendley" "Werner" "Not now It might look a little peculiar if you and I were seen probing around at this time of night" "I'll find them I promise you I'll find 'em if I have to tear this room apart" "Thank you Forget it" "Werner Yes?" "There is one small favour" "A camera keepsakes" "35mm with a 28 lens and a plane shutter" "Focal-plane shutter that's a focal-plane shutter" "Let me know when you got it" "but I like him" "Checkmate" "How soon's our air pump going to be ready?" "I'll have it for you tomorrow You're badly behind schedule" "Danny?" "No good three times" "you all right?" "Pull!" "Roger All 335 feet of it" "Four times today" "This way we never get through We must have more wood" "Roger Can you get it?" "We'll get it We've gotta get it and the new man we got this morning" "Willie" "On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me" "A partridge in a pear tree" "On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me" "Two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree" "On the fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me three French hens" "Two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree" "On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me" "Five gold rings" "How's it going with the rafters up there?" "Taking out one in four" "Stay with it" "Five gold rings three French hens" "Two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree" "On the seventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me six geese a-laying" "Five gold rings three French hens" "Two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree" "four calling birds" "Hilts" "Cavendish two turtle doves" "And a partridge in a pear" "Allez hup!" "Never mind" "Here's a present from our friend Werner" "Splendid" "Simply splendid" "This should do very nicely" "Those are Ashley-Pitt's men" "He requested permission to dispose of some of his dirt in our attic" "sir isn't as far as that How much further to the trees?" "sir" "Dark of the moon is the 7th 8th and 9th" "A day earlier in August" "Morning" "There he goes again" "Why is he buying up all the potatoes in the camp?" "but I can't find out" "Hilts and Hendley lock themselves in every night" "Sometimes Goff's with them Other nights he's on guard outside we'll close down Dick and Harry Seal them off" "Put the entire effort into Tom and press on into the trees" "Roger" "Wow" "Wow" "Wow" "Wow" "Wow" "Wow" "About face!" "Forward march!" "What is it?" "They're celebrating the revolution" "It's the 4th of July" "What the devil's this?" "you're invited for free drinks" "A little present from the colonials Down the British" "Quite right too And a little drink to Tom" "And to getting home" "Very well We accept" "Up the rebels!" "Down the British!" "follow us" "About face!" "halt!" "let's line up down here!" "grab a cup!" "Line it up!" "Here we go" "That explains what happened to the potatoes" "Roger" "I suppose it'll do us all good to let off a bit of steam and you can feel it throughout the whole camp hear" "Hilts?" "Moonshine American moonshine Moonshine" "Make my moustache grow Cheers" "Keep it moving" "Eric Don't spill any of that" "There you go Down with the British old cobber Keep it mo" "Don't get any on your clothes Cheers!" "Don't spill any of that Before your morning tea?" "Keep it moving sir" "American moonshine Don't smoke right after you drink it" "No smoking No smoking while you're drinking" "my friend" "Keep it going Keep it" "No taxation without representation boys Keep it" "fellas Enjoy yourselves let's drink to Tom" "To Tom that's the most extraordinary stuff I've ever tasted" "I think it's rather good" "I think I'll all on kive" "Call on Ives" "Hendley!" "You know what that is?" "I'll tell you what it isn't" "It isn't Napoleon brandy sir?" "it's" "To the colonies" "Independence" "are you?" "shir sir" "it's" "Hilts sir" "Danny!" "Here's to" "goons in 105" "Who?" "Strachwitz" "the goons'll know the hut's important" "Here's to going home" "Danny They've searched it a hundred times" "Home!" "eh?" "never mind You'll be walking down Argyle Street in a couple of weeks" "I'm just beginning to realise that myself boy eh?" "Herr Hauptfeldwebel!" "Herr Hauptfeldwebel!" "my God!" "They've found Tom" "It's the tunnel" "Success" "Ives!" "let me know the exact information you need" "I'm going out tonight Right" "Open up Harry" "We dig Around the clock" "Cooler Right" "I didn't think they'd catch him so soon" "He wasn't caught" "welcome home" "Danny?" "Danny?" "Danny?" "Danny?" "Yes" "All right" "All right Bring some shovels I'm all right you've left out a whole eagle" "That's impossible" "Yes" "Four days' work up the bloody spout!" "Colin" "Smithy" "It's getting late You push off to bed I'll pack up here" "All right" "Smithy" "I can't see a bloody thing" "Mac I've put in a lot of" "Watch it That's the easiest way to trip up a suspect Don't fall for that old gag" "German always" "five" "Roger" "it's me" "How do you like the old escape suit?" "fine" "Colin" "How do you like mine?" "It looks splendid" "Where are you going?" "You'll get yourself shot" "What's the matter with you?" "I'm going out through that fence we're getting out through the tunnel We're almost clear let me alone" "I can't go in that tunnel any more" "So I'm going out through the wire" "but not through the wire" "We're getting out through the tunnel It's finished" "I go out now No you go through that wire and you'll get killed" "Don't do that" "Willie caves you've dug 17 tunnels Over 17 tunnels" "Because I must get out and I dig I'm afraid maybe this time I will lose my head and ruin the escape for everybody" "So I go now" "I'll see you through the tunnel" "I'll look after you I'll stick with you all the way" "All right" "Roger how do you think we look?" "It's as bad as all that?" "we would not have been ready" "That's all right I had lots of help Lots of very good help" "Roger?" "You can't go" "What do you mean?" "I can't allow it" "Why?" "You can't see your hand in front of your face" "You'd be caught before you got 10 yards" "That's ridiculous" "That's ridiculous Never heard anything so absurd in my life" "I can see perfectly I can see perfectly!" "I can see that pin down there" "Does that satisfy you?" "What pin?" "Where?" "do you see the foot of the door?" "of course will you?" "All right" "All right Come on" "Come on Sit down" "Sit down It was a good try but I've only just been told" "It's too risky for you Don't you think that's Colin's decision?" "Roger most of us do that's fine that mission is accomplished we have some ideas of our own" "You mean getting home?" "Back to your family?" "That's right" "Do you really believe I haven't thought about that too?" "I'm sure you have" "I know Colin has" "I have too" "We think we can make it all the way" "Not Colin He'd be an appalling hazard to the escape That must be my decision" "Let's talk about hazard Let's talk about you" "You're the biggest hazard we have The Gestapo has you marked" "No one has said you can't go" "That's true" "I have thought about the Gestapo I can't answer you" "But I can tell you and must therefore be eliminated from the operation" "and he's going with me" "Colin?" "yes Quite" "Very well I'll arrange for your escape numbers to be altered accordingly gentlemen" "Actually he's quite right" "He's completely right" "I really shouldn't go at all" "My eyes have been getting worse and worse lately" "I think they call it progressive myopia" "I can see things up here Close to but" "you're just a blur" "I know hell We'll make it in great shape do you have any tea?" "of course Then let's have some" "Splendid" "Hilts" "Mac" "When?" "Tonight We thought they'd never let you out too Let's get at it" "Bartlett's waiting for you I'll be there" "What time?" "Danny" "You OK?" "Cavendish down there there" "third on the right third on the left" "There are the lights" "Danny" "Danny It's lovely" "It's just like Blackpool at the height of the season" "Danny?" "Yes" "No" "I don't know" "Roger" "Ashley-Pitt" "sir" "Roger" "Roger" "Good luck" "Danny" "And then they'll be coming right up the tunnel" "Willie" "I can't wait I must get out" "Danny!" "Danny!" "Danny!" "Danny!" "Danny?" "What's the matter?" "Danny!" "Come here!" "Roger?" "Danny and I'll go later We'll take another place tell me what this is and tell me quickly!" "This tunnel is mine as much as anybody I dug it I built it" "I was buried many times I go when I want" "Let me out Let me out" "Willie Take him out" "Danny?" "What is it?" "what's going on?" "Sedgwick It's all right We're going later" "it's all right It's all right" "We can take another place in the line It's all right" "Colin Down you go" "Sit down Feel the top rung of the ladder with your right foot Got it?" "Down you go" "huh?" "I" "keep your head down Right" "Right" "Bartlett" "All right?" "Hold on to yourself You're 20 feet short What do you mean?" "20 feet short of the woods The hole is in the open" "The guard is between us and the lights" "How could that happen?" "What the hell difference does it make?" "It's happened" "Mac!" "I'm trying to think!" "We could postpone it" "All the documents are dated today It's now or never" "you might be able to move out set up a signal when you're clear" "What about the towers?" "not the woods" "pass the word Send down 30 feet of rope" "Send down 30 feet of rope!" "Send down 30 feet of rope" "What?" "30 feet of rope!" "What do they want that for?" "How should I know?" "Get the rope" "sir sir" "He's over there" "Eric" "I'm staying here till we get moving" "See you in Piccadilly Scott's Bar" "Right" "Thank you" "Good luck Right" "We're moving" "they're moving through the tunnel now They're getting out you escaped and came to England because you're a flier" "You came because you wanted to fly with us and fight the Germans" "We can get out now We can get back to England everything you've done will have been for nothing nothing!" "Mac Right" "Colin" "Sit down" "Sedgwick I'll take over" "mate" "You won't get this thing through I'll cope" "Was that Sedgwick with his trunk?" "Who else?" "I wish he was home with his kangaroos" "We're 20 feet short How the hell?" "Hilts is on the other end of that rope in the woods but keep Colin low" "Mac" "What's that?" "God!" "No!" "The goons'll pull the switches We'll lose the lights in the tunnel" "Colin We can get out when the lights go down" "Willie" "It's an air raid Searchlights are out Come on!" "Get 'em out" "It's gonna give!" "Danny it's the lights" "Light the lamps down there!" "There's been an air raid and they've cut the lights it's all right Listen to me!" "look" "fellas Move!" "Move!" "We can get dozens out in this darkness" "What the hell's going on?" "You go No Danny" "Go" "Willie?" "Danny" "Is he stuck in there?" "He's all right" "Get him out fast" "Come on move" "Up you go" "Give me your bag" "We're on the rope!" "or we won't have a chance of any of the trains" "It's moving We'll just have to pass the instructions from man to man" "Right I'll be right behind you" "come on" "Come on" "Hey!" "Don't shoot!" "Don't shoot!" "Don't shoot!" "Get off!" "We're coming back!" "boy There's a hell of a lot of shooting going on up there" "Think they've been shooting them as they came out?" "We would've heard the shots before" "Pull!" "Wait for me" "Out" "Out" "How many did he say?" "76 76 76 76" "Dismissed Ten hut!" "Half the guys who missed their trains are piled up here" "Nimmo" "Makes quite a group" "What do we do?" "Wait for the train" "Tallyho" "Tallyho" "Are the police on the train?" "The Gestapo are with them Let's jump" "All right" "I'll tell you when I'd prefer you just to give me a firm push" "I'm fine" "That's quite exciting we're all right" "Switzerland" "Hey!" "Bartlett" "Cavendish?" "I I hadn't quite decided" "What information were you to collect on the way?" "None" "What sabotage directions did you receive?" "What have you done with your papers?" "Papers?" "Forged papers and identity cards" "Don't be so stupid What did you do with them?" "All I did was escape from a prison camp" "You'd do the same if you'd been locked up for three years" "I wanted to get home I don't think you'll see your wife again" "You've got the wrong man I'm not even married" "You're wearing civilian clothes" "You're a spy Spies are being shot" "This is my uniform I had to recut it when I lost weight" "I dyed it with boot polish to cover some oil smears" "I picked up when I was shot down" "And you lost your insignia over the years?" "That's right" "Cavendish" "boys" "Hello" "Cavendish" "I wish I could say I was happy to see you again this morning" "There's a trainer out there I can fly it's gonna be a problem" "crank this clockwise or you'll get a mouth full of propeller" "Go!" "Switzerland!" "The Alps" "Splendid" "then 20 more minutes and we've got it made" "What is it?" "Petrol?" "I don't know We're losing power" "Go that way!" "I'll follow" "Hendley?" "Colin!" "Stop!" "Don't shoot!" "Please!" "I'm sorry I fouled things up" "That's all right" "Thank you for getting me out" "Café Suzette" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Resistance" "You are English?" "I'm Australian" "You can speak English I understand Bloody good I'm a British officer" "I've just escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany" "I'm trying to make my way into Spain You understand me?" "Can you help me?" "I know someone who can Bloody good" "Good luck" "Thank you" "You are English" "Herr Bartlett?" "Your German is good" "And I hear also your French" "Your arms up!" "Herr Bartlett" "And Herr MacDonald" "We are together again" "You are going to wish you had never put us to so much trouble" "Roger?" "I'm just a little surprised" "I expected either a long stay or a very short trip" "Yes though" "I hope to God I haven't blotted 70-odd ledgers no footloose and fancy-free" "Roger" "I think you did a damn good job" "I think we all do Yes" "All right You can get out now Stretch your legs for five minutes" "It will take hours before you reach the camp" "Tom and Harry - kept me alive" "And even though we" "I've never been happier" "Mac" "1 1 of your men are being returned today who?" "I do not have that information" "I" "I am directed by a higher authority to inform you that" "50 of your officers were shot while escaping" "Shot?" "Their personal effects will be returned" "How many of them were wounded?" "Here are the names of the dead" "How many of the 50 were wounded?" "None" "They the higher authority - only directs me to inform you that" "that 50 men were" "I see" "John" "Peter" "Edward" "Roger" "Dennis" "David" "William" "Arthur" "se?" "or" "Spain?" "sir" "How many have been brought back?" "You're the first" "Do you know how many got away?" "Not yet" "What happened to Blythe?" "sir" "Roger was right about that either" "I've just posted the list They shot 50" "The Gestapo murdered them" "50?" "Ashley-Pitt?" "Yes" "Danny and Willie?" "they're not on the list" "Haynes?" "Yes" "I'm sorry" "Roger's idea was to get back at the enemy the hardest way he could" "Mess up the works" "I think he did exactly that" "Do you think it was worth the price?" "Hendley sir" "He is not to be saluted He's no longer in command" "huh?" "Hilts Lucky?" "Because I didn't" "How many?" "50 as if you will see Berlin before I do" "Sir" "Hilts!" "Subtitles ßy MühàmmáÐ Ü§mâñ"