Barry Lyndon
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1:01:11
This man is under arrest.
1:01:17
Under arrest? Captain Potzdorf, sir...
1:01:21
...I'm a British Officer.
1:01:24
You're a liar and an imposter.
1:01:27
You're a deserter.
1:01:30
I suspected you this morning.
Your lies and folly have confirmed this.

1:01:35
You pretend to carry despatches
to a General, dead these ten months.

1:01:40
You say the British Ambassador in Berlin...
1:01:42
...is your uncle,
with the ridiculous name of O'Grady.

1:01:47
Now, will you join and take the bounty,
or be given up?

1:01:55
I volunteer.
1:02:00
The Prussian Service was worse
than the English.

1:02:05
The life of a Private Soldier
was frightful.

1:02:10
Punishment was incessant.
Every Officer had the right to inflict it.

1:02:17
The gauntlet was a common penalty
for minor offences.

1:02:21
More serious ones were punishable
by mutilation or death.

1:02:34
At the close of the Seven Years' War
the army...

1:02:38
...renowned for its disciplined valour,
was officered by native Prussians.

1:02:44
But it was mostly composed...
1:02:47
...of men from the lowest levels
of humanity...

1:02:50
...hired or stolen
from every nation in Europe.

1:02:55
Thus, Barry fell
into the worst company...


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