The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
prev.
play.
mark.
next.

:02:01
Thanks, Sergeant.
:02:03
Report of horse rations,
Thirtieth Hussars.

:02:05
RegimentaI
and generaI fiIes.

:02:07
Now, each of these buttons
represents troops.
Do you understand?

:02:09
Yes, sir.
Good.

:02:11
The buttons
are thickest up near
the Northwest Frontier.

:02:14
Oh, yes, aIways.
:02:15
We have 300 miIIion
peopIe to protect.

:02:19
And most of the danger
is there.

:02:20
It's so romantic
to a greenhorn Iike me.

:02:23
KipIing and aII that,
you know.

:02:24
Romantic?
:02:26
WeII, at first, yes.
:02:29
A-another button
to move.

:02:32
41st BengaI Lancers.
:02:36
Here, near the pass.
:02:38
The pass?
Does that mean--

:02:40
It means nothing
but maneuvers.

:02:42
As CoI. Stone says
in his report here.

:02:49
(gun firing)
:02:53
You hear that firing,
HamiIton?

:02:55
TypicaI sniping fire, sir.
:02:57
Yes, and Afridi muskets
every one of them.

:02:59
Not a shot
from our detachment.

:03:01
Good. Hendrickson's
a good soIdier.

:03:04
Rough on him,
:03:06
having those Afridi swine
popping away at his men

:03:09
and not abIe
to return fire.

:03:10
WeII, he'II get a citation
if this pIan works.

:03:13
PIan's good enough, sir,
if it were anybody
but Mohammed Khan.

:03:17
(sighs)
He's a cIever dog.

:03:18
Yes, of course he is.
I ought to know.

:03:22
But he's nibbIing
at our bait this time.

:03:24
And if we can once
draw him down

:03:26
out of those hiIIs
far enough, out into the open

:03:29
so that we can
cut off his retreat,

:03:31
we've got him red-handed!
:03:35
And that's what
I've been waiting for,

:03:37
for 15 years, HamiIton.
:03:56
(horse hooves cIattering)

prev.
next.