Dunkirk Page #3

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From the base all you can see is the backs of helmeted heads

queuing out onto the narrow breakwater.

The Warrant Officer sees the stretchers, waves them past

WARRANT OFFICER:

Along the mole. All the way, she’s

leaving

A ship’s whistle

WARRANT OFFICER (CONT’D)

That’s it.

(he turns)

MAKE WAY! MAKE WAY!

The stretcher-bearers squeeze past...

EXT. BEACH -CONTINUOUS

Tommy and Gibson hear the ship’s whistle. They start running

with the stretcher, heading for the base of the mole...

EXT. BASE OF THE MOLE -CONTINUOUS

The Warrant Officer addresses a group of French soldiers.

WARRANT OFFICER:

NO FRENCH! NON FRANÇAISES SEULEMENT

ANGLAISES! ENGLISH ONLY,

YOU’LL HAVE YOUR OWN SHIPS!

Tommy and Gibson arrive, panting. The Warrant Officer looks

up at them. The ship’s whistle -the Warrant Officer points

up

WARRANT OFFICER (CONT’D)

That’s two minutes -you’ve missed

it.

He turns back to arguing with the French...

Tommy pushes forward with the stretcher. Soldiers try to let

him through on the narrow mole

8.

The Warrant Officer, seeing Tommy, just shakes his head.

EXT. HOSPITAL SHIP -CONTINUOUS

Stretchers are loaded up the gangplank onto the deck of the

ship, supervised by a Petty Officer.

He checks his watch, then looks along the mole at the

remaining stretchers...

EXT. THE MOLE -CONTINUOUS

Tommy weaves along the mole, squeezing past the mass of

troops jamming the breakwater...

Tommy leans out over the edge where the rail is missing, a

twenty-foot drop to the churning water...

Gibson follows, echoing Tommy’s route and footing.

EXT. HOSPITAL SHIP -CONTINUOUS

The last of the line of stretchers is carefully, awkwardly

raised up from the mole onto the deck of the ship. The Petty

Officer speaks urgently to the last stretcher-bearer.

PETTY OFFICER:

Last?

The Stretcher-Bearer nods, too breathless to speak, then

follows his colleagues back down off the ship.

An explosion hits the water nearby Everyone

hits the deck as shells impacts the water.

EXT. THE MOLE -CONTINUOUS

Tommy is pulled up short as Gibson stumbles An

ME 109 strafes the length of the mole with gunfire

soldiers hit the deck, several are hit...

Gibson struggles up.

CUT TO:

9.

EXT. WEYMOUTH HARBOUR -DAY

Peter and George rush things off the boat, then start loading

the orange life-preservers. Mr. Dawson looks up from his

charts to see naval officers and crew coming along the

harbour, assigning crew members to boats...

Peter follows his gaze

INT. MOONSTONE -CONTINUOUS

Peter bursts into the cabin, stacking life vests.

EXT. MOONSTONE -CONTINUOUS

The pile of life vests on the dock shrinks... Mr. Dawson

watches the naval men coming closer

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