Battle of New Orleans Page #3

Synopsis: The Battle of New Orleans is a long-stalled historical epic recounting events leading up to and during the historic 1815 clash.
Genre: Comedy, Short
Director(s): Bob Godfrey
 
IMDB:
7.3
Year:
1960
3 min
495 Views


substantial to add, tell your

friends there and readers thus --

the blood of our Founding Fathers

was not shed to kneel before a King

and Queen forty years hence. And

any man who disagrees is as stupid

as he is a burden to the air I do

breathe. Now if you’ll excuse me,

I will return to the manner I was

before your admitted interruption.

Through this an ARMY MESSENGER has arrived behind Jackson andhanded Brigadier-General Coffee a long-winded LETTER. Coffee

reads as the newspaperman steps away from the bar -

But the newspaperman just can’t let it go. He turns back -

7.

ANDREW JACKSON (CONT’D)

You’re a down-right nuisance.

NEWSPAPERMAN:

(a bit of gossip)

The Benton Brothers? Your duel?

Please, General, the story lives tobe passed in rooms like this. Will

you confirm, even off the record -

JOHN COFFEE (O.S.)

General.

Coffee is there with the letter. He hands it to Jackson.

Jackson reads. The newspaperman is keenly interested...

Jackson finally finishes. He slams his fist against the bar.

NEWSPAPERMAN:

Good news?

INT. BOARDING HOUSE - HALLWAY - NIGHT

Jackson walks the hall with his officers from the bar. Theyknock on bedroom doors, waking the rest of his high-command.

A door opens revealing prim LIEUTENANT DANIEL ADLER (38) inhis bed-clothes. Adler fusses with his glasses.

DANIEL ADLER:

This couldn’t wait until morning?

INT. BOARDING HOUSE - ROOM - NIGHT

A room too small for so many men. Everyone is gatheredaround a table as Coffee reads the letter by candlelight.

JOHN COFFEE:

“Natives of Louisiana. On you thefirst call is made to assist in

liberating from a faithless andimbecile government your paternalsoul. The American usurpation inthis country must be abolished --

ANDREW JACKSON:

Usurpation my bleeding arse.

Jackson is pouring SHOTS OF WHISKEY for the officers justwoken out of bed. Adler shakes his head in refusal.

8.

JOHN COFFEE:

-- I am at the head of a large bodyof Indians, well armed, disciplinedand commanded by British officers.”

OFFICER:

An Indian in a redcoat! That would

be a sight!

The officers laugh at the prospect.

JOHN COFFEE:

“Seconded by the powerful aid ofnumerous British and Spanish Shipsand Vessels of War.” And it goeson like this... for quite awhile.

Sent to every town and city twohundred miles within the Purchase.

ANDREW JACKSON:

When did the British move onto

Pensacola?

JOHN COFFEE:

Our spies have them boarded sixweeks ago in the Spanish garrison.

This point riles Jackson.

ANDREW JACKSON:

The comandante there, Garcia, as

spineless a man I ever met. Had

nerve to call me “impertinent”.

DANIEL ADLER:

General, this is not an unexpecteddevelopment. The British were want

to encroach on the South, our

orders are still to remain here.

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