
MacArthur
- PG
- Year:
- 1977
- 130 min
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As I was leaving
my hotel this morning,
"Where are you
bound for, sir?"
When I replied, "West Point,"
he remarked,
"It's a beautiful place.
"Have you ever
been there before?"
Duty, honor, country.
Those three hallowed words reverently
dictate what you ought to be,
what you can be,
and what you will be.
They are your rallying points.
They give you
a temper of the will,
a quality of the imagination,
a vigor of the emotions,
a freshness of
the deep springs of life,
a temperamental predominance
of courage over timidity,
an appetite for
adventure over love of ease.
In this way, they will
teach you to be an officer
and a gentleman.
From your ranks come the
great captains who will hold
the nation's destiny
in their hands
the moment
the war tocsin sounds.
The Long Gray Line
Were you to do so,
drab and brown khaki,
in blue and gray, would rise
Duty, honor, country!
This does not mean
that you are warmongers.
On the contrary, the soldier,
above all other people,
prays for peace,
for he must suffer and bear the
deepest wounds and scars of war.
"Only the dead have
seen the end of war."
Heads up, soldiers!
Heads up!
Lieutenant?
Yes, sir?
Major Huff's got
himself wounded.
Would you look
after him, please?
Right away, sir. Corporal,
would you take this?
Major.
So, one of the Battling
Bastards of Bataan, eh?
Yes, sir. No mama,
no papa, no Uncle Sam.
Well, help is on the way.
I have Washington's
solemn promise on that.
General Marshall, Admiral King,
will you go right in, please?
Thank you.
You said you wanted to talk
over the Corregidor problem.
I certainly do. I've gone out
on a limb with the Filipinos.
We should be getting more than
inspirational radio messages
through the Japanese blockade.
Have any of our ships made it?
One ship has reached Mindanao,
two more made it to Cebu.
The rest were
either sunk or captured.
Thank you.
So far we've lost better
than 80,000 tons.
received practically nothing.
That's about it,
Mr. President.
How long can they hold out?
Matter of weeks.
But we're still dispatching
submarines to Bataan and Corregidor.
We managed to land
some munitions and drugs,
and evacuate a few of the wounded,
but that's all we can do.
Unless you're one
to start stripping
the defenses of the West Coast,
the Panama Canal...
One bombing of the canal
and it's out of
action for two years.
It's a more vulnerable and important
target than Pearl Harbor.
And Hitler will have the whole North
American continent for a target
if we don't stop him in Europe.
Exactly.
But you know
what's going to happen.
Like everything else,
Douglas is going
to take our strategy personally.
a figment of my imagination,
and that I'm somehow deliberately
robbing him of glory.
Douglas a globe of the world
to remind him we have
obligations all around it.
We have to support Stalin while he
fights the bulk of the Nazi army.
We have to assist Churchill
to keep England functioning.
We have to protect our flanks,
the Panama Canal,
and General Douglas MacArthur.
I need him.
We can't leave him
to the Japanese.
He won't leave the Philippines unless
you order him off, Mr. President.
Cut an order.
Put my name to it.
Double 5, O, 673D, L926...
So long, baby. That's 140
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