Twelve O'Clock High

505 00:46:55,930 --> 00:46:58,125 Sir. 506 00:46:58,199 --> 00:47:01,168 - I've been assigned as the general's driver. - Fine. 507 00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:10,140 - Aren't you the clerk that I saw... - Yes, sir. Private Mclllhenny. 508 00:47:10,211 --> 00:47:13,544 Well, general officers rate sergeants as drivers. 509 00:47:13,615 --> 00:47:16,880 - Better put those stripes back on. - Yes, sir. 510 00:47:20,922 --> 00:47:24,517 ♪ With anyone else but me ♪ 511 00:47:24,592 --> 00:47:28,392 <i>♪ Anyone else but me Anyone else but me ♪</i> 512 00:47:28,463 --> 00:47:30,829 <i>♪ No, no, no don't sit under the apple tree ♪ - Beer.</i> 513 00:47:30,898 --> 00:47:34,459 <i>- Yes, sir. - ♪ With anyone else but me ♪</i> 514 00:47:34,535 --> 00:47:39,302 <i>♪ Till I come marching home ♪</i> 515 00:47:39,374 --> 00:47:44,107 <i>#Don't go walking down lovers' lane with anyone else but me #</i> 516 00:47:44,212 --> 00:47:48,444 <i>♪ Anyone else but me Anyone else but me ♪</i> 517 00:47:48,516 --> 00:47:51,653 <i>♪ No, no, no don't go walking down lovers' lane ♪♪</i> 518 00:47:51,786 --> 00:47:54,778 Remove your cap in the club, Major. 519 00:47:56,057 --> 00:47:59,493 - That's regulations, huh? - It is. 520 00:48:10,238 --> 00:48:13,799 Have another, Major Cobb. 521 00:48:13,875 --> 00:48:15,843 Scotch. 522 00:48:15,910 --> 00:48:20,006 - I've got it. - No regulation against buying my own, is there? 523 00:48:20,081 --> 00:48:22,106 That's right. 524 00:48:32,226 --> 00:48:34,160 <i>- Corporal. - Yes, sir.</i> 525 00:48:34,228 --> 00:48:39,962 This bar is closed for tonight and until further notice. 526 00:48:57,985 --> 00:48:59,953 <i>I'll probably see you tomorrow morning.</i> 527 00:49:00,054 --> 00:49:05,458 <i>- Good night, Ben. - Good night. I'll keep a light in the doghouse window for you.</i> 528 00:49:33,821 --> 00:49:35,755 <i>Come in.</i> 529 00:49:37,959 --> 00:49:42,953 Major Stovall, cut an order assigning Major Cobb as air exec. 530 00:49:43,030 --> 00:49:45,999 Yes, sir. 531 00:49:46,100 --> 00:49:48,967 - Good night. - Good night, sir. 532 00:50:49,964 --> 00:50:52,228 <i>Attention.</i> 533 00:51:07,682 --> 00:51:09,775 Rest. 534 00:51:16,757 --> 00:51:21,387 There will be a briefing for a practice mission at 1100 this morning. 535 00:51:21,462 --> 00:51:24,625 That's right, practice. 536 00:51:24,732 --> 00:51:29,635 I've been sent here to take over what has come to be known as a hard luck group. 537 00:51:29,670 --> 00:51:34,130 Well, I don't believe in hard luck. So we're going to find out what the trouble is. 538 00:51:34,242 --> 00:51:38,975 Maybe part of it's your flying, so we're going back to fundamentals. 539 00:51:40,648 --> 00:51:44,641 But I can tell you now one reason I think you've been having hard luck. 540 00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:49,588 <i>I saw it in your faces last night. I can see it there now.</i> 541 00:51:50,791 --> 00:51:54,750 You've been looking at a lot of air lately... 542 00:51:54,829 --> 00:51:57,525 and you think you ought to have a rest. 543 00:51:57,598 --> 00:52:00,533 In short, you're sorry for yourselves. 544 00:52:00,601 --> 00:52:03,900 I don't have a lot of patience with this what are we fighting for stuff. 545 00:52:03,971 --> 00:52:08,271 We're in a war, a shooting war. We've got to fight. 546 00:52:08,342 --> 00:52:10,401 And some of us have got to die. 547 00:52:10,478 --> 00:52:15,575 I'm not trying to tell you not to be afraid. Fear is normal. 548 00:52:15,650 --> 00:52:19,177 But stop worrying about it and about yourselves. 549 00:52:19,253 --> 00:52:22,916 Stop making plans. Forget about going home. 550 00:52:22,990 --> 00:52:24,924 Consider yourselves already dead. 551 00:52:24,992 --> 00:52:28,826 <i>Once you accept that idea, it won't be so tough.</i> 552 00:52:28,896 --> 00:52:32,832 Now if any man here can't buy that, 553 00:52:32,934 --> 00:52:38,839 if he rates himself as something special, with a special kind of hide to be saved, 554 00:52:38,906 --> 00:52:42,342 he'd better make up his mind about it right now. 555 00:52:42,410 --> 00:52:46,847 <i>Because I don't want him in this group.</i> 556 00:52:46,948 --> 00:52:51,317 I'll be in my office in five minutes. You can see me there. 557 00:52:51,385 --> 00:52:53,512 Attention! 558 00:52:58,359 --> 00:53:02,022 <i>- I'll take Colonel Davenport any day. - Me too.</i> 559 00:53:13,140 --> 00:53:17,167 I'd better get over to the office 'cause the traffic is gonna be pretty heavy. 560 00:53:30,625 --> 00:53:33,594 The air exec and the group flight surgeon are here, sir. 561 00:53:33,661 --> 00:53:35,629 - Tell them to come in. - Yes, sir. 562 00:53:35,730 --> 00:53:40,531 They beat you to it, Major. I thought you'd be the first one in line to ask for a transfer. 563 00:53:40,601 --> 00:53:43,570 - No, sir. - We