:21:00
All I want from you
is a straight yes or no.
:21:04
-You talk, I'll listen.
-Okay.
:21:08
You either can sweat out the two days
you have before the hanging. . .
:21:12
. . .or you join an outfit
that I'm putting together.
:21:15
If you do that, I'll have you
out of here in less than 24 hours.
:21:18
But you'll be worked to death, and
there's not a beating you won't take.
:21:25
And then
when I'm satisfied with you. . .
:21:28
. . .you'll go where the Army tells you.
Chances are you'll get killed anyway.
:21:32
You don't know Victor Franko.
:21:35
-Guard.
-All right, what's the deal?
:21:36
What's the deal if I do stay alive?
:21:38
-Might get off the hook.
-Count me in.
:21:40
But you foul up once,
anywhere along the line, just once. . .
:21:44
. . .and you'll be back here
at the end of a rope.
:21:47
Hey. Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute!
What's the matter with you?
:21:51
You think I want to die?
:22:00
If you do, then you don't
know Victor Franko.
:22:03
How come you speak German?
:22:05
Because my old man was
a coal miner in Silesia.
:22:07
If he didn't speak German,
he didn't dig coal and he didn't eat.
:22:11
That was the language he spoke
when he came to the States?
:22:14
Pretty tough job in those days.
:22:16
Yeah, it still is.
:22:18
I don't like officers,
not any of them, and I never have.
:22:24
But you were one yourself,
weren't you?
:22:28
Yeah, three lousy days.
:22:31
Somebody must have thought
you'd make a good officer.
:22:34
They made a big mistake, didn't they?
:22:36
Well, I thought you claimed
he was going over the hill.
:22:39
What the hell are you talking about,
"claimed"?
:22:42
He was going over the hill.
:22:44
My outfit was pinned down by
the worst crossfire you ever saw.
:22:48
Half of them bleeding to death.
And this lover took off like a rabbit. . .
:22:51
. . .with the medical supplies
on his back.
:22:53
The only way to stop him
was to shoot him.
:22:58
Anyhow, he had it coming.