"Hey, this ain't the Boy Scouts, Willis, this is the Army." "Don't listen to him." "He thinks he's G.I. Joe himself." "Yeah?" "Well, I know all about guys like him." "I ran into one when I joined up with the 35th at Bastogne." "Yeah, nothing but hot air." "He went to pieces when it was time for the real fighting." "Oh, yeah?" "I'll show you what real fighting is about." "Hey!" "Hold it, you two!" "JASON:" "Hit the dirt!" " Aah!" " You all right?" "Keep firing!" "Pour it on!" "Willis, yell up to him." "Tell him it's over." "[GUNFIRE]" "[BOTH SPEAKING IN GERMAN]" " What did he say?" " Liar." "We don't have any choice here." "We got to blow him out." "No." "We got to take him prisoner." "An hour ago we had a license to kill." "Now we don't." "JOHN-BOY:" "In 1945 on Walton's Mountain with the coming of summer buds became leaves and wildflowers painted the hills and fields as no human artist could." "It was as if nature was defying the war that consumed the world." "On the home front, there were shortages, rationing and a deepening war weariness that only victory could ease." "But the greatest problem of all for my family was coping with the anxiety about those of us who were in the service." "One brother was stationed nearby, and three were overseas one of whom, my brother Jason was fighting on the front lines somewhere in Germany." "[AIRPLANE PASSING OVERHEAD]" " This is it." " You sure?" "JASON:" "The lieutenant said there was a woodcutters' house around here." "This must be it." "That's some house." "Every other squad gets a nice place with beds and a kitchen." "We get a shack." "We'll probably only be here one night." "No, it's only when we get a decent setup that we move out fast." "Cover me." "I'll check it out." "[GOAT BLEATING]" "Hold your fire." "Whoever lived here probably hid it when they heard we were coming." "LUSCO:" "Well, how does goat's meat taste?" "Tough, but goat's milk is great." "[JOHN SIGHS]" "All right, Ike, try it." "[JOHN GROANS]" " Not gonna give up on it, are you?" " I'm running out of ideas, I'll tell you." "I told you, you should've gotten rid of this refrigerator years ago." "I was going to, but then the war started." "Remember?" "Couldn't find a second-hand coil around, huh?" "Believe me, if there is a place you can buy one of these I've either been there or I called them." "I dare say if a congressman wanted a new refrigerator, he'd get it." "[IKE SIGHS]" "Well, I guess this war is going to be over one of these days." "It's the day I keep waiting for, Ike." "Yeah." "It must be hard on you, John." "Four boys in the service." "I feel for you." "I feel for them." "Yeah." "All right, Ike, try it again." "Okay, keep your fingers crossed." "Ah, ha!" "We did it!" "It's running!" "We're in business!" "I don't know how long this old thing is gonna hold up." "Oh, boy!" "Listen to that motor." "It's just as noisy as ever." "Daddy, Rose wants to know if you're coming home for lunch." "Right now, honey." "I was listening to the news." "There's a rumor that the Germans..." " ...are gonna surrender soon." " Where'd you hear that?" "Well, the reporter was interviewing someone from the Pentagon." "Ah, those rumors are a dime a dozen." "Kind of rumors I like to hear." "Excuse me, honey." "Let's go." " It's the best milk I ever tasted, I think." " Heh." "Never had it straight from the manufacturer before, huh?" "No, I have never even seen a goat up close." " You know what I'd like?" "LUSCO:" "What?" "I'd like nice, thick, gooey chocolate malt." "Look, now that sounds pretty good." "Walton, what kind of goat do you get malts out of?" "JASON:" "Ha, ha." "SLATE:" "Hey, we got company." "Oh, yeah, well, just when we get settled down in a nice shack up comes a messenger with word we got to move on." " Second squad?" " Yeah, I'm Sergeant Walton." "My name is Willis." "I'm a replacement." "We can use a replacement." "Counting me, this squad's down to three men." " Why so few?" " We've been through heavy fighting." "[SIGHS]" "They didn't tell me that." "Hey, this ain't the Boy Scouts, Willis, this is the Army." "And we're at war, do you remember?" "Cut it out, Lusco." " You want some goat's milk?" " No, thanks." "Yeah, have some goat's milk, here." "Put some hair on your chest." "JASON:" "Lusco!" "Don't listen to him." "He thinks he's G.I. Joe himself." "Yeah?" "Well, I know all about guys like him." "I ran into one when I joined up with the 35th at Bastogne." "Yeah, nothing but hot air." "He went to pieces when it was time for the real fighting." "Oh, yeah?" "Well, I'll show you what real fighting is about." "Hey!" "Hold it, you two!" "You keep that up and you're both going to be in a lot of hot water." "I didn't start it." " Willis, you go inside and get some rest." " Yes, sir." "And you, get off him and stay off him." "Oh, sister, I forgot the shopping list." "You told me to bring it." "Ha-ha-ha." "Well, Emily, the list!" "Oh, yes, of course." "There." "Oh, no, this is a letter from Cousin Octavius written when he was still in the-- The institution." "EMILY:" "Oh, dear Octavius, I was always so fond of him." " I remember once" " The shopping list, sister." "Oh, yes, of course." "Here." "May I help you?" "Oh, thank you, Corabeth, but I believe Ike is attending to us." "I'll just look around, thanks." "Corabeth, how many ration stamps is a large can of peaches?" "You fill out the order, I'll add up the points." "Okay, I'll see." "It's peaches and peas and asparagus soup." "CORABETH:" "My, there is quite a list today." "MAMIE:" "We're having a soiree." "EMILY:" "For some of the young men at Camp Rockfish." "We have a lovely collection of records and one of them I'm sure our fighting men are going to enjoy is by Mr. Al Jolson." "All they ever hear on their radios is that deplorable jitter music." " Jitterbug music, sister." " Whatever you call it." "But this will be a welcome change." "There's just one thing." "We're can't decide whether to have roast beef or roast lamb." "What would you suggest?" "I would suggest roast lamb because we don't have any beef." "Ha, ha." "Well, then, you better add a jar of mint jelly to that list." " Oh, I'm sorry, we don't have any." " Oh." "That will be 26 red and 57 blue." "Oh, my!" "I don't think we're going to have enough." "EMILY:" "Perhaps if we eliminated the asparagus soup." "Mm." "That wouldn't help much." "Mr. Godsey, the ladies are giving a soiree for some of our servicemen." "I don't think we should let anything petty stand in their way." "Well, let me see." "They look like they have honest faces." "Ha-ha-ha." "I guess we can trust you till next weekend." "[ALL CHUCKLE]" "My name is Parsons." "I'm an Investigator for the Office of Price Administration." "A spotter!" "Selling merchandise without receiving the required number of rations stamps is a violation of the law." "But this is a special case." "These ladies have entertained hundreds of our servicemen who otherwise would spend their time in dens of iniquity in Charlottesville." "We engage them in conversation." "And we serve them the Recipe." "EMILY:" "A public service, don't you know." "The law allows no exceptions." "Mr. Parsons, these are good friends of ours." "We can trust them." "They'll bring the stamps in next week." " Mr. Goodsey." " Godsey." "Mr. Godsey, we have reason to believe that you have repeatedly violated the OPA regulations." "I'm giving you a summons to appear before the Ration Board in Charlottesville." "Good day, ladies." "Willis, you ready for that milk now?" " Yes, sir." " Here you go." "Don't gulp it, junior." "Sip it slow or you'll get the colic." "JASON:" "Leave him alone." "All right, if you want him to grow up with bad eating habits." "[AIRPLANE APPROACHING]" "Sounds like a P-38." "P-38?" "That's one of ours, isn't it?" "Of course it is." "Hey, which army did you train with?" "Hey, snap out of it, Willis." "P-38s only attack German troops." "We should take cover just in case." "Hey, you're not going anywhere." "You're on guard duty, remember?" " Let go of me!" " Hey, what's the matter with you?" "Nothing." "Nothing, just forget it." "You must have been a big help at Bastogne." "Willis, you're dismissed." "Slate, take over." "You know, this is just what this outfit needs." "A yellowbelly!" "Now it just won't be Lusco who's on me all the time." "You and Slate, too, right?" "You both will be needling me now." "Nobody's going to be needling you." "But I think you owe us an explanation." "I" " I hear a plane close like that I just cave in." "That story you told us about Bastogne, you made it up, didn't you?" "I was on my way there with a group of replacements." "About 10 of us." "We were crossing a field and we heard a plane and then gunfire." "I turned around and I could see the German pilot sitting in the cockpit of the plane as it dived down on top of us." "We hit the dirt, and the plane was gone as fast as it came." "I was the...." "I was the only man who stood back up in the whole group." "[SIGHS]" "One minute I was laughing with all my buddies and the next minute I was standing in a field of dead men." "I spent four months in a hospital." "You were wounded?" "No." "I just fell apart." "I wanted to be-- I wanted to be a good soldier, but...." "But Lusco's right." "I am yellow and...." "You guys are-- You guys are stuck with me." " You sure have a lot of studying." " I sure do." "ELIZABETH:" "What's wrong with you?" "I just got a run in my last pair of silk stockings." "I saw an ad for a gadget that fixes runs." "Not this one." "It runs all the way from my ankle to my knee." "I'm so sick of shortages." "Tires, hair rollers, stockings." "Everything I need is either unavailable or rationed and I don't have enough stamps." "ELIZABETH:" "Think how much better we are than people who live in cities." "We have chickens." "We have a cow for milk and butter and Daddy can always go hunting." "Well, it's real easy for you to be optimistic, Elizabeth." "You don't even wear stockings." "Listen, you two, how do you expect me to concentrate with all this racket?" " Well, study in your room, then." " I can't." "John Curtis is napping." "Elizabeth, would you get me the vanilla extract?" "What kind of a cake are you making?" "Devil's food without sugar." "No frosting." "Lord only knows what it's going to taste like." "As long as the troops get everything they need, that's what's important." "If they ever make another movie about Pollyanna, you'd be perfect for the part." " Please!" "ROSE:" "No, no, now listen." "Elizabeth is right." "We have no business feeling sorry for ourselves." "A whining woman and a cackling hen will never come to any good end." "[DOOR CLOSES]" "I got a letter from Ben." "They're building an airstrip on some island." " Did he say what island?" " Yeah, and the censor cut it out." " I didn't want to study, anyway." " I bet he's in the Philippines." "Well, just so he's not on a combat zone, that's all I care about." "Why don't you read it to us, Cindy?" "Well, it's a little bit personal, most of it." " Well, you can skip those parts." " Heh." "All right." "Uh" ""This island is a tropical paradise." "I've never seen such beautiful flowers and trees." "The birds are fantastic, in every color of the rainbow and the weather's been perfect every day that we've been here so far."" "[SIGHS]" " So, what's the movie tonight?" " Another old western." "Great." "We're about due for R and R, you know that?" "We ain't never going to get R and R, Ben." "Sure we are." "I bet you they send us to Hawaii." "Sure!" "And then they'll fly in Dorothy Lamour and Betty Grable to keep us company." "[THUNDER CRASHING]" "I'll bet you two to one the tent blows over." "No bet." "IKE:" "Now, you people have known us for a long time." "And you know that we wouldn't do anything wrong." "JENKINS:" "But you did do something, and Mr. Parsons was there." "MAMIE:" "Well, so were we." "And we have something to say, if we may." "Ladies, please." "All we were trying to do is to help make it a memorable evening for some gallant young men from Rockfish." "And you call that wrong?" "As I keep telling you, Mrs. Godsey the audit indicated that there have been previous violations." "And there were good reasons every time." "Now, for instance last month we filled an order for a lady, she didn't have any stamps at all." "CORABETH:" "Her son had been wounded in Iwo Jima." "He was coming home." "She wanted everything to be just right for him." " As it should have been." "EMILY:" "I most certainly agree." "If you ladies have something to say, would you please stand up?" "We have come to appear as character witnesses for the accused." "We've known the accused for years." "Mr. Godsey is an air raid warden." "EMILY:" "And Mrs. Godsey rolls bandages for the Red Cross and saves tin foil." "It was they who got us to salvage cans and our waste fats." "EMILY:" "To make munitions for our fighting men." "MAMIE:" "Time after time they have sold us food without ration stamps so we could entertain soldiers." "Once when no soldiers showed up Mr. Godsey sold us gasoline without stamps." "So that we could drive to Rockfish to get more soldiers to come to the soiree we had planned." "EMILY:" "We had baked a perfectly lovely chocolate meringue pie, you know." "We could never have made it if they hadn't let us have extra sugar." "What I think the ladies are trying to say is that they always turn in their ration stamps when they got their new book." "Or the book after that!" "The point is, they are true patriots who have done everything possible to make our soirees a success." "Thank you, ladies." "We have heard the evidence." "Are we in agreement?" "Our findings will be turned over to a federal court with a recommendation that you be prosecuted for violation of OPA regulations." "[MAMIE GASPS]" "Hey, I found this under the floorboards, maybe some good German wine." "JASON:" "Hope so." "Canned stuff!" "Well, with my luck, it will probably turn out to be rat poison." " "More rube." What is that?" " Let me see it." "[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]" "That's carrots." "Erbse, that's peas." "There's mixed vegetables, corn, tomatoes." "Well, that settles it." "I always knew I'd strike it rich." "This is it." "Can you, uh, speak German or just read it?" "Um, well, my mother was born in Germany so I grew up hearing it." "Yeah, well, I've got to go relieve Slate." "You keep your eye peeled for strafers there, junior." "That's enough out of you." "I think you ought to ship that kid back to the rear, and make him an interpreter." "It'd be a lot safer for the rest of us." "CORABETH:" "Oh, John, your invitation to dine could not have come at a better time." "We all needed something to lift our spirits." "Oh, Corabeth, you try a little of this wild turkey, that'll cheer you up." "I don't know what we're supposed to do." "We try to be good neighbors." "Then some OPA spotter comes along and makes a federal case out of it." "Well, it's persecution, pure and simple." "And all this worry is not good for Mr. Godsey's health." "I am very concerned about his heart." "Oh, Ike's used to hard work." "A little trouble's not going to hurt him." "I don't know, John." "Sometimes I think I ought to throw in the towel." "ROSE:" "Oh, I know how you feel, Ike." "Seems to me I spend half my time counting ration stamps." "That is, if you have any." "If not you do without." "Everything will be back to normal once the war is over." "If we can remember what normal was." "I don't see what good it does to complain." " There goes Little Miss Perfect again." "JOHN:" "We ought to listen to her." "We're all tired of rationing and regulations and all that." "We can't give up anymore than our boys overseas can." "Yeah, I think you're right, John." "We're all soldiers of one sort or another." "Well, in this case, General Godsey, it is the OPA and not the Nazi who are the enemy." " Come on, now, dig in there." " Yeah." "I don't know when I've had a more delicious meal." "I do." "The last time you cooked one." "Ha-ha-ha." "CORABETH:" "Oh, Ike!" "Look!" "We've been robbed." "Who on earth could have done such a thing?" "I don't know." "The coffee we got in yesterday, it's gone." "So is the sugar." "And the canned soups and meats and vegetables, all the rationed items." "Whoever it was obviously knew what they wanted." "Black marketeers." "We're ruined." "All of this stock stolen and no way to replace it without stamps." "It's all right." "I'm going to go to the Ration Board." "No, no, not that Ration Board." "I'm going to go to Washington D.C. I'm going to talk to the head of the OPA." "And get hopelessly tangled in red tape." "No, I won't." "I'll take care of it." "After all these years of hard work, broken equipment the Ration Board, and now this." "[SOBBING] I simply can't bear it." "Corabeth, we've been through worse than this together." "Everyone has their breaking point, Ike, and I've reached mine." "I just can't go on." "[SOBBING]" "I know where it is, lieutenant." "We'll get up there right away, over." "LIEUTENANT [OVER RADIO]:" "Keep us posted, Walton." "Over and out." "Just as I was starting to think of this place as home." "Slate, Willis!" "We've been ordered out on patrol." "Pfft." "I knew it was too good to last." "There's some German soldiers holed up in a town about 15 miles from here." "We're supposed to help a patrol from B company flush them out." " Let's get going." "SLATE:" "I'll get the bag." "JASON:" "Everybody got enough ammo?" "LUSCO:" "Yep." "SLATE:" "Sir." "JASON:" "Slate, go out back and let the goat loose." "Yes, sir." "JASON:" "Willis, you got a clip in your rifle?" " Hope I don't need it." " So do I." "Come on, let's hustle!" " I got a suggestion." " What?" " Leave junior here." " He'll be fine." "I'm telling you, Wal, he's too jumpy for this, leave him." "We're not leaving anybody." "Okay, here we go." "Single file!" "Willis, you stay behind me." "Move out!" "Ike?" "Ike!" " What's going on here?" " Hi, John, we've been robbed." "Whoever did it knew what they were doing." "All they took was rationed items." "We can't replace them." "You can restock, can't you?" "No, would take a waiver, fill out a million forms, take weeks." "You mean you're gonna stay closed that long?" "That's right, John." "The mercantile will not be reopening." "Well, I'm gonna keep pumping gas and I'll keep posting letters, but that's about it." "And I, of course, shall keep selling real estate which should compensate for the loss of profits from the mercantile." "Wait a minute." "We need a store here." "We got to do whatever it takes to get you reopened." "John, the robbery was just the last straw." "What with the price controls and the rationing and the bookwork and...." "Come on in, honey." "I mean, it has become just too much and so Corabeth and I have decided to close it up and that's all there is to it." "Thanks again." "JEREMIAH:" "Hey, sonny!" "Whoa, team." "Whoa!" "Howdy." "Where do you think you're traipsing off to out here in the middle of nowhere?" "Well, I'm trying to catch a ride to Walton's Mountain." "And where's that?" " It's on beyond Charlottesville." " Oh." " This road don't go there." " Why not?" "It don't go nowhere." "That's not what the man that just dropped me off said." "Hmm." "Maybe, maybe not." "All right, climb up." "I know a shortcut that'll get you to the Charlottesville turnoff." "If old Samson and Delilah here still got the gumption left to pull the both of us." "Get along, mule." "[CLICKS TONGUE]" "Get along there, now." "What are you doing out here if this road doesn't go anywhere?" "Well, I just keep hoping that one of these years it might." " Chew?" " Oh, no, thanks." "I bet you'd like a little drop of something good?" "We call this stuff Recipe up on the Mountain." " Been to the war yet?" " No." "I'm stationed at Langley Field." "Guess you ain't killed many folks yet." "No, none, I'm glad to say." "Just as well." "Don't make sense going around shooting at people." "They generally like to shoot back." "This is water." "Well, now, if that don't beat all." "[JEREMIAH CHUCKLES]" "That's what I get for letting it sit around in the hot sun all day long." "[WILLIS COUGHING]" "[WHISPERS] Willis." "That cough has got to go." " I'm doing my best, Sarge." " Try breathing deep." "[BREATHES DEEPLY]" " That helped." " Good." "You going to be all right?" "I don't know." "I have a bad feeling about this mission." "I have a bad feeling about every mission." "We'll be fine." "Why don't we radio the company and ask for reinforcements?" "JASON:" "We haven't even seen the town yet." "WILLIS:" "But there" " There are only four of us and the other patrol's bound to be small, too." "We don't even know how many Germans are there." "That's what we're going to find out." "Let's go!" "[WILLIS COUGHING]" "[WILLIS COUGHING]" "JASON:" "Hit the dirt!" " Aah!" " You all right?" " You all right!" "SLATE:" "I'm okay, I'm okay!" "LUSCO:" "All right, all right, stay low!" "I'm taking the BAR." "Walton, cover me!" "I'm gonna get alongside of them." "All right, keep firing!" "Pour it on!" "Willis, open fire!" "Willis!" "Hold your fire!" "[SLATE GROANING]" "Slate!" "How bad is it?" "It hurts like hell, Sarge, but I'm going to live." "Willis, get the sulpha and a bandage." "Willis." "You cough again and I'll strangle you." "Ugh." "Agh!" "You sure this shortcut was such a good idea?" "Well, sure it was!" "This way, we don't risk old Samson and Delilah here getting run over by a car." "How am I supposed to catch a ride from a car when we're taking all these back roads?" "You'll get your ride sure enough, first thing in the morning." "In the morning?" "You don't expect me to be out driving these dark roads in the night, do you?" "All right, mule, hold there!" "Hold now!" "Whoa, now, mule." " What are you doing?" " Making camp." "We're bunking down for the night." "Well, I've got to get home." "Well, go on, then." "Now the main road is" "Well, I don't rightly know which way it is." "But you'll bump into it one of these years." " You expect me to sleep here?" " I don't see why not." "I always pack the back of this wagon with the finest straw in Fluvanna County." "And I always bring along an extra blanket in case I get company." " You're crazy, you know that?" " Ain't it the truth." "Now, I got to get my proper rest and so do you." "We get up at 5:00 in the morning, and I don't want no dilly-dallying." "[AIRPLANES FLYING OVERHEAD]" "Sarge?" "Yeah?" "You're awake, too, huh?" "I have a rough time sleeping the night before we move up." "Same here." "I've been looking." "I've been looking at the stars." "Hard to believe my folks can see the same sky out the window of their home." "I know." "Sarge?" "Yeah?" "You get homesick?" "Homesick and scared rolled into one." "Everybody gets that way, even Lusco over there." "Try to get some sleep." "Yeah, I'll try." "[SIGHS]" "The place is completely deserted." "I know." "It's creepy, ain't it?" "MAN:" "Halt!" "Password!" "JASON:" "Double." "MAN:" "Header." " Jackson!" "How are you doing?" "JACKSON:" "Ha-ha-ha." "Hey!" "All right." " You with B Company?" "JACKSON:" "Right." "Hey, the town's clear." "Great!" "They only sent two of you guys?" "The others took back some prisoners." "Is there any more wine where that came from?" "Hey, there's all the wine you can carry down there in the cellar." " Great." "JACKSON:" "Here, have some." " Good to see you, Walton." "JASON:" "Take it easy." "Sugar Two to Sugar One." "Sugar Two to Sugar One." "Come in, Sugar One, over." "LIEUTENANT [OVER RADIO]:" "Sugar One to Sugar Two, over." "The town's been cleared, over." "Roger." "We just got word the Germans surrendered." "It's all over!" "Come on back and help us celebrate!" "Over and out!" "Hey, you guys hear that?" "It's all over!" "The Germans surrendered!" "[ALL WHOOPING]" "I'm coming home, Ma!" "You're going home!" "You're going back to Brooklyn, Lusco!" "Oh, let me go." "Let me go to Brooklyn." " Let me have some of that wine!" "SLATE:" "I'm going home, Willis!" "[ALL CHEERING]" "Take cover!" "Across the street, the church tower!" "Lusco!" "What the hell do you think you're doing?" "Thanks again for the ride." "Yeah, I've been on the telephone most of the night." "Should be quite a few people there." "Ike and Corabeth got a lot of goods left." "All right, Hank, thanks." "Bye." "Do you really think this is going to help, Daddy?" "I don't know, but it's sure worth a try." " Hi, everybody." " It's Jim-Bob!" " ELIZABETH:" "Jim-Bob!" " Jim-Bob!" "I figured y'all would be celebrating by now." "We would be, son, if we knew you were coming home." " Haven't you heard?" "ERIN:" "Are you getting married?" "I just heard on the radio." "Germany surrendered." "[ALL CHEERING]" "Oh, my goodness!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Put the radio on." "ROSE:" "Oh, somebody pinch me, I can't believe it!" "Ben!" "Ben!" "It's over!" "The Germans surrendered!" "The war's over!" "[BOMB WHISTLING]" "[EXPLOSION]" "The war's over, huh?" "Sure glad to hear it." "All right." "Lay down a barrage and make him hit the floor." "I'm gonna get over to the church and toss a grenade in there." "No." "He thinks we're still at war." "Willis!" "Willis, yell up to him." "Tell him it's over." "[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]" "Again!" "[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]" "[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]" " What did he say?" " Liar." "And he thinks it's a trick." "We don't have any choice here." "We got to blow him out." "No." "We got to take him prisoner." "An hour ago we had a license to kill." "Now we don't." "If we can get inside that church, maybe we can talk him down." "You're looking for volunteers, don't look at me." "I'm going after him." "You're going to risk your skin to save that Kraut?" "That's right." "I need a volunteer." "Willis?" "Cover me." " You're crazy, Sarge." " Cover me!" "Walton is crazy." "That guy has got a lot of guts." "Willis, what are you doing?" "Willis!" "LUSCO:" "Hey, kid!" "SLATE:" "Willis!" "Ready?" "He must know we're in here." "What do we do?" "Call up to him again." "What if he comes down shooting?" "Then we'll shoot back." "[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]" "He's coming." "Keep talking." "You've got to make him believe it's true." "[CONTINUES SPEAKING IN GERMAN]" "[SOLDIER SPEAKING IN GERMAN]" " What did he say?" " He still thinks we're lying." "[SIGHS]" "We're just gonna have to wait him out." "[GUNFIRE OUTSIDE]" "That stupid Lusco!" "Willis!" "[WILLIS SPEAKING IN GERMAN]" "[BOTH SPEAKING IN GERMAN]" "Peace." "Well, we were only trying to do you a favor, Ike." "Well, I appreciate it, Miss Mamie." "It's just that, uh, I don't want to bargain for any trouble." "What trouble?" "Papa's Recipe is not on the ration list." "Well, no, it's not." "It's just that I, um...." "Well, there are other problems to be considered." "The Recipe is, of course, primarily medicinal." "And we are not a pharmacy." "Afternoon, Ike, Corabeth, ladies." " John." "IKE:" "John, Happy V-E day!" "I thought you were closed, Ike." "I was, but everybody in town found out about it and I thought I'd get lynched if I didn't open up again." "You can't eat gasoline and real estate, right?" "Well, it's nice to know that we're needed." "I suspect that the proprietor of a certain lumber mill is responsible for this." "MAMIE:" "You're right." "John telephoned us early this morning and told us to bring our business right over." "I think that was supposed to be a secret, Emily." "Of course, it was, sister." " Is this a permanent reopening, Ike?" " You bet it is." "Wait till you see me handle that OPA case." "I'm gonna get everybody in this store to go and testify for me." "Oh, now, Mr. Godsey, please." "Remember what happened last time." "Whatever are we going to do with all this Recipe, sister?" "I haven't the slightest idea." "Our pantry is already overstocked." "Well, I might just be able to help you out, ladies." "We're having a celebration at my house." "I'm sure we're gonna need some Recipe before the night's over." "Oh, what a splendid idea!" "EMILY:" "That's very chivalrous of you, John." "[LAUGHS]" "ALL [SINGING]:" "Roll out the barrel" "We'll have a barrel of fun" "Roll out the barrel" "We've got the blues on the run" "Zing boom tararrel" "Sing out a song of good cheer" "Now's the time to roll the barrel" "For the gang's all here" "Aren't you enjoying the party?" "[SOBBING] I wish I felt like it." "Elizabeth, what's wrong?" "I don't know why I'm crying." "It's just I know I hate war." "I guess if there was a reason for a war, there's a reason for this one." "I'm glad it's over in Europe." "And I hope it won't be long before it's over everywhere." "I want my brothers to come home." "Honey, they're coming home." "Come on." "ALL [SINGING]:" "My country, 'tis of thee" "Sweet land of liberty" "Of thee I sing" "Land where my fathers died" "Land of the pilgrims' pride" "JOHN-BOY:" "Eisenhower had called the invasion of Europe the Great Crusade." "He reminded us back in June of 1944 that the eyes of the world were upon us." "That the hopes and prayers of people everywhere marched with us." "Now the Great Crusade was over." "And while we rejoiced, there was the knowledge that the war in Japan was still to be won." "ELIZABETH:" "Mary Ellen, how do you spell victorious?" "MARY ELLEN:" "Elizabeth, you ought to be asleep." "ELIZABETH:" "I will be soon." "I'm writing a letter to Ben." "MARY ELLEN:" "Tell him John Curtis is learning to count." "ERIN:" "Tell him I ran into an old girlfriend of his today." "JOHN:" "Tell him all that in the morning." "Good night, Elizabeth." "ELIZABETH:" "Good night, Daddy." "I still don't know how to spell victorious." "[ENGLISH" " US" " SDH]"