Memphis Belle Page #4

LUKE:

Sir, you mean we're going to be

famous?

BRUCE:

Afraid so, Luke.

Luke whoops. He pounds on Val and Phil a little. Val

pushes him away. Phil is hunched over, miserable.

DENNIS:

Colonel Derringer...

BRUCE:

Bruce.

DENNIS:

We'll follow your orders to the

best of our...

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BRUCE:

(interrupting)

It's not an order, Dennis. We're

working together.

DENNIS:

Yes, sir, but I don't want the

other men finding out about this

yet.

LUKE:

Their pictures in Life? Wine,

women and song? You've got to

tell them! They'll go nuts!

DENNIS:

I don't want them going nuts.

Right now I want them thinking

about their jobs and that's all.

LUKE:

Come on, we could do our jobs in

our sleep! Why can't they know?

DENNIS:

Because I said so.

LUKE:

My father used to say that.

Dennis and Luke glare at each other.

BRUCE:

Dennis, you're the boss. Tell

your crew when you think it's

right. Gentlemen, thank you for

your time.

Dennis, Luke, Phil and Val start getting up from the

table.

INT. BARRACKS - NIGHT

A big tin-roofed Nissen hut, six beds on each side and a

HISSING potbellied STOVE in the center. Two crews bunk

in here, our enlisted men and another crew. In the b.g.,

a NEWS REPORT is heard on the RADIO, then MUSIC begins.

There's lots of activity as men get ready for the dance.

Jack is involved in a poker game at one end of the room.

At the other end, Clay is wrenching off the padlock on a

locker at the foot of a stripped bunk.

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Danny is loading film in his box camera. (This whole

scene seesaws between the ominousness of sorting through

the dead man's things and the fun and excitement of

getting ready for the dance.)

DANNY:

Clay, shouldn't you let the

sergeant go through Becker's

stuff?

EUGENE:

The sergeant'll just send it all

to Becker's widow. We don't want

her getting anything embarrassing,

Danny.

The lock comes off, Clay opens the locker and starts

sorting through the contents. Eugene is putting on his

socks. He sniffs them and gags.

EUGENE:

Anyone got any clean socks?

CLAY:

Hershey bar.

VIRGE:

Me, me!

Clay tosses it to him. Virge rips it open and starts

eating it. Around Virge's bunk are drawings of a restaurant.

As he munches the candy bar, he studies them.

VIRGE:

Anyway, Danny, then I'm going to

open a whole bunch of restaurants,

exactly like the first one. So

you can go to Detroit and get the

exact same hamburger you got in

Baltimore.

DANNY:

Virge, nobody wants the same old

food everywhere they go.

VIRGE:

Sure they do. It's comforting.

CLAY:

Love letters.

EUGENE:

Wife or girl friend?

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