
Counterpoint
- Year:
- 1967
- 107 min
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Our conductor got us full coverage,
General.
AP, UP, Routers and the first
string music critic from Le Monde.
giving this outfit the shaft.
General Patton gets Marlene Dietrich,
Bradley gets Bob Hope,
we get culture
in a bombed out Belgium opera house.
The 82nd Airborne has Scheduled
a performance at the Royal Ballet.
- At least the ballet's got girls.
- Don't worry, we've got girls.
All military personnel.
Report to your units immediately.
Gentlemen, it seems we're involved
in a mass exodus.
I trust it isn't entirely
the result of your performance.
We've got to evacuate. German's
have started a counter offensive.
Keep your places!
The enemy has cut off all roads
to Baston. Head North to Huy.
Each of you is responsible for your
instruments, music and yourselves.
Section leaders are responsible
for their sections.
None will board
the bus until all are ready.
For the first time, this
orchestra will finish together.
- Lionel, hurry up!
- Maestro!
Presto!
Come on, hurry up!
All right, Henry, get going!
If you're heading for Huy forget it.
Could be a Berlin suburb by now.
You'd best go north to Stavelot.
3rd Army is in control there.
Thanks.
Hey USO,
say hello to Betty Grable for me.
- Who's Betty Grable?
- An American film-star.
Patrol 17.
Dorothy, put the Viola on the floor.
Instruments aren't easy to replace.
But musicians are.
What is it?
Everyone stay where he is.
I'll handle this.
Keep your high-school German to
yourself and don't give me orders.
All right. I'm Lionel Evens,
the conductor of this orchestra.
This man is our driver.
We are all non-combatants.
- Non-combatants?
- Yes.
And what are you? Spanish? Brazilian?
They're not Army.
They're entertainers.
And you? What are you?
- Swedish?
- Corporal. US Army. I'm a soldier.
Wrong.
You are nothing.
He was a prisoner, as you are.
You can't do this.
I have orders.
Every prisoner taken
in this offensive shall be shot.
I don't care what your orders say.
They don't apply to us.
- Do you read French?
- No.
You better take a look at this!
We're not just a bunch
of itinerate fiddlers,
we're a highly respected
international symphony orchestra.
If you make the mistake of shooting
us, you'll be a lieutenant forever.
I'll take you back to division
headquarters and confirm the orders.
- Get back on the bus.
- We should be allowed to go...
Enough! Get back on the bus.
The wheel must be changed. You two.
Go and do it!
Hurry up!
Penguins.
Bravo.
Minor executive. I've dealt
with that type all my life.
The thing they do best is pass
the buck.
Panzer division.
Operating out
of an authentic medieval castle.
That is where the buck stops.
Come Captain.
Send this message to Luetzdorf.
Without fuel, we'll be trapped here.
We're aware the
Americans know of our whereabouts.
English, Captain, English.
I enjoy surprising
Coronel Arndt occasionally.
There's only one pair of eyes.
But more than his usual
accompaniment of ears.
Put it there.
Careful. It means a lot to me.
I've made our position obvious
so the Americans
will suspect deception.
And anticipate a strike
on their munitions dumps in Spa.
Therefore, we'll do the obvious
and attack Namur.
But I need appropriate fuel
from my reserve stores.
I'll send out three armored units
at dusk.
We have to force the Americans
to wasting their strength at Spa.
In Clausewitz's, "The Art of War", he
warns against overuse of deception.
Captain Klingerman,
20th Century war cannot be solved by
a 19th Century mind.
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