The Strange One (1957) - full transcript

All in?
All in.

All in?
All in.

All in? How about now?
All in.

All in?
All in.

How about now?

All in?
All in.

You freshmen had better
pop to. You ain't even half
trying, neither one of you.

Sure no hope for
you guys no how.

I want to turn around from
here, and I want to see two
chins well tucked back.

I want to see two powerful
little chests lifted right u
into the atmosphere.

What a creep.
What a fantastic creep.



My, my, my,
what a creep

Hut to, mister!

Sorry-looking specimen,
ain't he, Jock?

You freshmen seem shocke
d by our friendly visit,

and disturbed
by our continued
presence here.

Mr. Simmons, do you
have any grounds
for such an attitude?

No, sir.
And yet we'd
all be expelled

if we were caught here.

Isn't that right,
you insidious beast?

Yes, sir.

Well, now,
you weren't being logical,
were you, Mr. Simmons?

No, sir.

Have you figured out y
et who won the Civil War?

The North, sir.



How dare you come
down to our southland
and say a thing like that?

You lying Yankee carpetbagger.

Now, which side emerged
victorious in the War Betwee
the States, mister?

The South, sir.

So, now you're
being sarcastic

and trying to make fun
of the South in your
sly Yankee way,

saying the South won the war
when any fool knows
the North won.

What a conniving
character you are.

What a sly, crafty,
calculating devil you are.

d.
Let's lynch him, Harol

Come on, Jock.
You're getting this poor boy
all confused in his mind.

I think we should lynch hi
Harold. He's probably
a Communist anyhow.

Jock, he don't look like
much of nothing to me.

Well, remind me to
lynch him sometime,
Harold. He needs it.

You insane brutes rest.

We're going to have
a little surprise party
tonight. A card game.

It's been our superb
good fortune that I've
been able to interest

a great wit and a fine
gentleman in joining us

Mr. Roger B. Gatt.

His sense of humor,
his courtly good manners

his true southern charm
make him stand out from
the crowd wherever he goes.

Mr. Marquales,
you're going to win
about $90 from him.

I'm going to win $90?
Mmm-hmm.

That's more or less
what he has on him.

Now, before he stumbles
in here, let's get a couple
of things straight.

Mr. Marquales,
you're a filthy ri
ch freshman

with money dribbli
ng out of your ears.

You have a Cadillac car
and an allowance
of $200 a month.

But I don't
have a Cadillac, sir,

and my allowance
is $2 a week.

You have a Cadillac car
and $200 berries a month

You're the bait, mister.
Rog thinks he's going to win
a lot of money off you.

Now, Mr. Simmons,
this is what you have
to remember.

You just love football,

and your favorite position
is the tackle position.

"The tackle position"?

And you have a great
admiration for the town
of Birmingham, Alabama.

Rog is from Birmingham,
Mr. Simmons.

Excuse me, sir.

Do you plan to cheat
during this game?

Just a little.

Well,

perhaps this is a stupid,
old-fashioned idea on my part,

but I always thought
that cheating at cards was

not exactly the noble
sort of thing to do.

Well, I'll tell you what
, Mr. Marquales, the money
we win you can keep.

That'll make it noble.
I don't want it, sir.

Neither do I.

Well then,
why are you doing this?

Sir, if you don't mind,
I'd rather not get involved

in some grudge of yours
against another upperclassman.

What in the world
is the matter
with you, mister?

Don't you even know a joke
when you see one?

Well, I'd rather
not cheat at...
Come on now.

Jock's got nothing
against Roger.
Have you, Jock?

I'd rather not cheat
at cards, sir.

All right, then you can
just give him the money
back in the morning.

Now, Jock is just trying
to have a little fun.
Aren't you, Jock?

Okay, if you don't
want to play, forget it

I'd hate to be a wet blanket
if it really is a joke.

Mister, of course it is.
What in the Sam Hill is
the matter with you?

Hey, wait a minute,
how did this liquor get in
a freshman's press, Jock?

I put it there, Harold.
You don't think I'd put liquor
in my press, do you?

It's very thoughtful
of your mother to pack
this, Mr. Simmons.

Well, come on now,
two bottles of liquor
in the barracks, Jock?

Mr. Simmons,
you're going to
be the bartender.

Sir, I hope you'll forgive me,
but you see, sir,
I don't approve of alcohol.

I don't care whether
you approve of it or not

you just keep Roger's
glass filled, that's all.

Sir, you wouldn't make
me do anything against
my basic convictions,

would you, sir?

Sir, did you know that
alcohol is the opium
of the Western world?

Sir, if you took
a piece of beef steak

and immersed it in
a glass of liquor and let
it stand overnight,

do you know that,
that liquor would literally
eat that beef steak?

Now, sir, can you imagine
what that liquor will do

to the delicate linings
of the human stomach?

Now you listen to me,
you ridiculous idiot,

you keep Roger's glass
filled or I'm going to
take this broom here

and cut you in half.
Do you understand?

Yes, sir.

Hey, Jock, listen. You're not
planning on getting Roger
really drunk, are you, Jock?

Mr. Simmons is going to
get him dead drunk, Harold.

I just don't think
I'd do that, Jock,

because ol' Rog fights
when he gets drunk, Jock.

I know he does, Harold.
Here, fix these for me,
will you, boy?

Roger. We've been
waiting for you on pins
and needles, boy.

Jock.

Well, I couldn't come
until Laurie went to sleep.

Come on in, boy

Mr. Simmons here was in
a dither for fear you weren'
going to show up, boy.

He's a great admirer of
yours, you know. I want
you to meet him, Roger.

He is one of the mos
t brilliant freshmen
here this year.

Well, here he is,
Mr. Simmons, Roger B. Gatt.

One of the greatest
football players in
all of Dixieland.

How do you do, sir?

My favorite position is
the tackle position.

Well, now that's
quite a coincidence

Roger here happens
to be a tackle.

What is it you like
about the tackle position?

Well, I just
admire it, sir.

Well, that's funny.

You know, most people,
they like a backfield.

Them backs get
all the glory.

Sir, they do,
they certainly do.

I like the backfield, too,
but my favorite position
is the tackle position.

Roger,

he sort of
hero-worships you.

All right.

Have you been
around here long?
Sir?

Answer the question,
Mr. Simmons. Have you
been around here long?

Since before taps.

No, no, no.
Roger doesn't mean that

He means have
you been around
the college long.

I got here when it opened.
I mean, when it started.

Roger, he got here
when the term started.

Well, that's good.
Glad to have you around.

You like it here?

Yes, sir.

That's good, too.

Greatest school there is.

Mr. Gatt's from Birmingham,
Mr. Simmons.

You remember Birmingham, don't you, Mr. Simmons?

Don't you remember
telling me how you wan
t to settle down there

when you finish school,
go into the horse-feed
business.

Yes, sir

Or was that mule-feed?

Horse-feed, sir

There are a lot of
horses around there.

Lot of mules, too.

Shucks, they have
everything, everything,

everything in Birmingham

You know that?
Such a beautiful city.

All those smelters
and everything.

Yeah.

It's real pretty there.

Is that him,
the rich freshman?

Yeah, that's him, Rog.
And he's itching for action

You got a Cadillac car?

Yes, sir. A Cadillac.

What color is it?

Brown. Sort of
a creamy brown.

Wow. Even I wouldn't
get caught dead in
no brown car.

I'd get red. Hey, Jock.
Hmm?

You know my grand-mammy?

You know, well,
she won't let me have
no automobile.

How do you like that, Jock.
You know what she says?

She says...

Roger, you kill me, boy.

Man, what a witticism.

And what are you
laughing at?

Nothing, sir.

Yeah, well, see you don't.
You're a freshman around here
and see you remember that.

Hey! Well, I'll be darned!
Look at that liquor sitting
on that table.

How'd you do that, Jock?

Nothing's too good
for my friend Roger

Mr. Simmons, pour
Mr. Gatt a drink.

Yes, sir.

Here we go, Roger.
Here you go, boy.
Drink up, Roger.

Okay, Roger boy,
how many cards you need?

Three.

Doggone. I don't got
very many chips here.

Okay now, Roger,
look, you're seeing
Marquales raise

and you're raising it
six bucks yourself, right?

Right?
Yeah.

Okay. I'm light ten

What beats three fours?

I do. I got a full house.

My shako is bringing me luck.
It's about time I won a pot.

Well, what have you got
this time, four aces?

No, sir.

Four kings.

I'll have one more drink
and I'm going to bed.

Rest, Mr. Simmons.
Give Mr. Gatt a drink.

Sir, it's practically
a poison.

How dare you say
a thing like that
to my friend Roger!

It's good for you.

Best thing in the world
for you. I'm warning you
, Mr. Simmons,

either you sta
rt doing your job
as a bartender

or you're going to
feel that broom.
Yes, sir.

You see, Roger,
Mr. Simmons here is
an odd character.

He's what the
coconut doctors ca
ll a schizophrenic.

That means that half
of him likes horse-feed
and football,

and the other part's a
teetotaling parson who raves
and rants against demon rum

You take that back.

I'm sorry, Roger.

Now look here, Jock,
I like you and all that,

but my grand-mammy
told me don't ever make
no joke about religion.

Now, you take it back.

Well, I withdraw
that statement, Roger.

I'm awfully sorry, boy.

All right.
Shake on that, Roger?

See, Roger?
Roger, it's all that
schizophrenic's fault.

And you know what
a schizophrenic is,
don't you, Rog?

All right,
now look here, mister.

Now this is the
United States
you're living in,

and you can take
all that Europe stuff back
where it came from.

Yeah, you take that
schizophrenic stuff back to Sweden, Mr. Simmons

All right, mister,
I'm going to teach
you a lesson.

Now, I ain't saying
nothing against you
'cause you're a Yankee.

There are plenty of Yankees
that's as good Americans
as anybody else.

Now you look like
a Yankee Communist,
mister.

Get over the press,
you Northern Communistic spy

I told you he was
a Communist, Harold.

Actually,
I suspected it
all the time.

You hardly
touched him, Roger.

Now that's enough.
Now that's enough,
Jock boy, that's just aplenty.

He's going to kill him.

An idiot like that
is better off dead
anyhow, Harold.

Pour it on him, Roger.
George is next door, Jock.

He's right on the
other side of that wall. He's going to report us

His daddy's got the
duty tonight, Jock.
Major Avery.

And Georgie is going
to run right down there

and tell his daddy
on all of us.

Will he, Harold?
Will he?

Go on, boy.
Lay it on him, Roger

Lay it on him, boy.
Come on.

Well, come on,
let's go see the Major.

What is it?

Sir, Cadet Corporal
Avery would like to report
a case of hazing in barracks.

All right.
Just a minute.

It's De Paris, sir.

He's in the room next to mine,
beating a freshman to a pulp.

Are you sure
it's De Paris?

Yes, sir.

Come on.

They were here before.

Where is De Paris' room?

Cadet De Paris. De Paris!

Yes, sir?

Have you been out
of your room tonight?

Have I been where, sir?

Never mind.

I'm sorry.
Go on back to sleep.

That's all, Mr. Sully.
Yes, sir.

Look, Son...

Relax, Georgie.

Obviously he was asleep.

He wasn't asleep, Dad,
I'm telling you
he wasn't asleep.

Georgie, take
a bicarbonate of soda
and go on back to bed.

Please, let's go to bed.

I'm dealing cards.

...more liquor.

You're not going to
have any more liquor.

What do you mean
we ain't going t
o play no more?

You heard me
the first time.

I'm losing.
Then you're just
going to have to go

cry on your grand-mammy's
boney old shoulder.

What did you say?

I never chew
my spinach twice,
you overgrown moron.

You heard me
the first time.

What's the matter, boy?
What's the matter, Roger

What's the matter, boy?
What is it, Roger?

Get him, Roger!
Get him, boy! Pop him, boy!

Pop him one!
Come on!

Get him, Roger! Get him, boy!
Go ahead, boy! Get him, boy!

Get him! Get him!
Pummel him, Roger!
Go ahead, boy.

Sir, Mr. De Paris, sir,
would any of you gentlemen
care for some milk?

There was a case like that
about five years ago

Some senior smuggled
a bottle into his barracks,
sipped on it all night.

Went out for a breath of air
he fell down the stairs,

stumbled out on
the quadrangle
and passed out.

They found him there
at breakfast formation
the exact same way.

He wasn't dead.
He was drunk and
beat up, that's all

He sure was beat up.
I never saw so much blood.

Who'd you think could've
beat him up that way, anyhow?

I heard somebo
dy say he just fell down the stairs

Nobody beat him up,
he just fell
down the stairs.

Battalion!

Ten hut!

A cadet was found
this morning unconscious

on the quadrangle
of Headfield Barracks.

Will any cadet
having knowledge

of the whereabouts
or activities
of Cadet Avery, G.,

between 2300 and 0600,

report before noon
drill to Colonel Ramey
at Headfield Barracks.

Dismissed.

Cadet De Paris, J.
, reporting, sir.

At ease, Cadet De Paris.
What's on your mind?

Well, sir, it's about
Cadet Avery being found th
morning on the quadrangle.

The Cadet Colonel
said that any cadet
with information about that

should report to
you before drill
.
Do you know
something about it?

Yes, sir, I do.

It's a little
difficult to say,

but I feel kind of responsible
for what's happened
to Cadet Avery.

In what way do you
feel responsible?

Well, sir, last year
I was a cadet officer,

and Cadet Avery
was in my platoon.

I was very tough
on Cadet Avery and all
the men in my platoon.

Excuse me, weren't you
the cadet who got the
punishment order last May,

just toward the
end of the term?

Yes, sir

Just to refresh my memory,
what was that
punishment order for?

Major Avery reported me
for harshness towards
underclassmen, sir.

And rightly, sir
.
I see.

Well, learning that authority
and responsibility go together

is one of the
hardest things in life,
Cadet De Paris.

However, I take it you have
some special reason
for telling me this.

Yes, sir.
Yes, sir, I do.

You see, sir, my harshness
toward Cadet Avery
seems to have given him

an obsession about me.

It seems...
Yes?

Well, sir, I don't know mu
about these mental things,

but all year Cadet Avery
has been hinting

that there's some kind
of a plot against him.
That I'm the ringleader

He thinks I'm trying
to persecute him, sir.

Sit down, Cadet De Paris.

Thank you, sir.

That's very interesting.

Does he think anyone
else has been persecuting
him, or just you?

Well, it's mainly me, sir.

He suspects my roommate
and the two freshmen
in the room next door.

In other words, you
feel that because of the
discipline of the school,

and in particular because of
your mistake in harshness,

Cadet Avery's had
a nervous breakdown?

No, sir, I think
he's had more than
a nervous breakdown.

I think he's had
a mental breakdown.

Why else would a cadet
with a perfect record

get drunk and wreck
his whole career?

What makes you
think he was drunk?

Well, being found
like that on the
quadrangle, passed out,

liquor bottles all
around him. I assume
d he must be drunk.

Not necessarily.
The boy has been injured.

Could have a mild concussion,
and not be drunk at all.

As for the liquor bottles,
those could've
just been put there.

I think "planted" is the term.
Isn't that possible?

Well, yes, sir,
I suppose that's
remotely possible.

It's more than
remotely possible.

In fact, that's
Cadet Avery's story.

But, sir, I was there on
the quadrangle this mornin
He reeked of alcohol.

Oh, there's no doubt
that whiskey was spilled or
poured all over his clothes.

The question is, whether
or not any of the whiskey
went into his stomach.

However, we'll know
the answer soon.

What do you mean, sir?

I'm having the State Police
analyze a sample
of Cadet Avery's blood.

His blood, sir?
Yes. You see,
Cadet De Paris,

now if laboratory analysis
shows there's no alcohol
in a man's blood,

well then, even though he's
reeking of whiskey and his
clothes are covered with it

and there's liquor bottles
all around and he's
dazed from a bad beating,

you can be sure of
one thing, he's sober.

Well, yes, sir, but if this
test seems to show
that Cadet Avery was sober,

then that would mean some
college cadet deliberately
tried to make him look guilty.

I can't believe a college
cadet would do an unscrupulous
thing like that, sir.

Well, although I appreciate
your loyalty to the school,

I'm not as much of
an idealist as you,
Cadet De Paris.

I'm afraid that out
of 2,000 men,

one or two are apt to turn out
to be slightly rotten.

Yes?
Excuse me. The polic
e report is here, sir.

Fine. Bring it in.
Well, that's all,
Cadet De Paris.

If I want you again,
I'll call you.

Yes, sir.

Thank you very much,
Cadet De Paris.

I appreciate you volunteerin
this information
more than you realize.

Hello, Cliff.
Hello, George.

Here it is, si
r.
Thank you. That's all.

Jocko, I'm telling you, bo
you're not going to get
away with it. It won't work

Harold, they said
the same exact thing
to Robert Fulton.

"It won't work."

That steamboat won't go.
That's what those doodlebu
said to Fulton.

Jock, now we're going to
have to stop joking, boy,
because this one ain't funny.

Don't you think I'm funny
anymore, Harold? You used
think I was a real card.

Sir, that's the way I got
into all this, thinking
you was a real card.

What did George Avery
ever do to you anyway, Jock?

Do to me? He never did
anything to me, Harold.

Well, why would you
do all that to him for then?

Why did I do it?

I didn't do it, Harold.

You did it.

Don't you
remember telling me
how you hate Georgie?

I told you I hate Georgie?

Jock, I don't hate
Georgie. When did I ever tell you that?

Why, Harold,
what a feeble
memory you have.

You're a left-handed
pitcher, that's what
you are, Harold.

Now listen, Jock. Man,
I don't know what went o
n in that room last night.

It was dark. All I know
is that you and Roger
beat up on Georgie.

It was you and Roger
beat him up. Not me.

Jock, what reason would
I have to beat up Georgie?

You got a special order
two weeks ago, because..

Because Georgie reported y
late from general leave.

Jock, I never even
remembered that.
Yeah, well,

whether you remember it
or not, it's on the record.

There's nothing on
the record Georgie
ever did to me.

I have no motive,
Harold, but you do.

Besides, even if we
do get caught,
you'd still be expelled

I'd be expelled?

Sure.

You played cards after taps,
you drank whiskey in barracks,

you stood by
while a man was
beaten unconscious.

You're in this up
to your neck, boy.

And if we do get caught,
they're going to think you're
the ringleader, not me.

You said I used to thi
nk you was a card, Jock.

Son, you are a car
d, all right.

You the ace of spades, buddy
that's what you are.

Don't worry, Harold.
Come on.

Let's go to college
and get some knowledge.

Who did that?
Hello, Jock.

You going to class, Jock?
Yeah, I'm going to class

Do you mind if I
just sort of tag along?

Four years you've been
hanging around me, McKee
, what do you want anyhow?

Nothing, Jock.
What are you
hanging around for,

you little creepy insect
?
I'm just being
friendly, Jock.

Now look, if you
don't stop hanging
around me,

I'm going to stuff your
nauseating carcass into one
of those artillery pieces,

pull the lanyard
and blow you out to sea

Jocko, you certainly
have a gift for colorful,
picturesque speech.

You get on my nerves

It's awful about Georgie
, isn't it, Jock?

I mean, that was quite
a mysterious occurrence

Why don't we put
our noggins
together sometime

and have a little talk
about this mystery?

I don't talk to
cockroaches.

Platoon, fall in!

Report!

Parade!

Battalion, ten hut

Parade, hut!

Special Punishment
Order Number 14.

Subject, Cadet Avery, G.

For drunkenness,
bringing disgrace upon
himself and the college,

Cadet Avery is on this day
expelled in dishonor by
order of General N.W. Cheney.

Battalion, ten hut!

Company Commanders
take charge and
move out to mess!

Platoon leaders, take
charge of your platoons,
move out to mess.

Left face!

Column left, hut!

You're not afraid
of De Paris, huh?

Oh, no.

Of course not.
Certainly not. No!
Absolutely not.

Why don't you
go take a bath?

Bringing that up again, huh?

Can't stick to the subject,
can you, Mr. Marquales?

Your conscience is
bothering you.
That's what's wrong with you.

You have a guilty conscience.
Innocent man expelled,

and you're sitting
there doing nothing.

Well, what are you
doing, Simmons?

Well, I never said
I was not afraid of De Paris.

Why don't you
go take a bath?

I won't take a bath!

I don't like
those group showers.

You may not understand thi
Mr. Marquales,

but there are some
people who are modest.

What a roommate.
You say that!

I should say that.

What a roommate.

A hypocrite!

Listen, Simmons,
my parents saved for years
so I could go to this school

If I was expelled
from here, they'd never
understand it.

And the only way
I can save George Avery
is to get myself expelled.

And I can't do
that to my parents

And that's
all there is to it.

So now you're pretending
you like the school?

But I've heard you
say differently,
Mr. Marquales.

? He has a guilty conscience

? He has a guilty conscience

? He is a coward,
a coward, a coward...

Will you please shut up!

Don't tell me to shut up.

You're a freshman.
You can't tell me to shut up.

? The hypocrites
are taking over everything

? The hypocrites
are taking over everything

? The entire whole world

? The entire whole world ?

Listen, Simmons,
I've had just about
enough out of you.

Now get out of here
and take a shower.

It's been six weeks,
Simmons. You need it

Please, take a shower.

All right, I will.

When?

Sometime.

I'll take one when
you get the nerve
to report that beast.

Simmons, why don't you report him?

Seriously, what have
you got to lose? You
don't belong in this school

you're flunking all
your classes anyway.

What have you got to los
e if you're expelled?

I'm not flunking
all my classes.

I just haven't gotten used
to this warm climate yet.

And furthermore,
I haven't even begun
to study.

And if you would
shut your mouth,
I could study.

The hypocrites are
taking over everything

The hypocrites are
taking over everything

Watch it, bud!

The entire whole world?

The hypocrites are
taking over everything ?

All right. I got him!
You cut that out, Marquales.

Simmons, is that any way
to talk to your roommate?

What's the matter,
can't we have anything
around here but strife?

You know, if the
Cadet Colonel heard you

say such a thing
to your roommate,

he'd probably crouch
down and lay an egg.

Rest.

Mr. Simmons.
Yes, sir?

How would you like
to have a date in town
with a girl tonight?

No, thank you, sir.

What's the matter,
don't you like women?

I simply don't
understand you,
Mr. Simmons.

What have you got
against women?

I don't have anythin
g against women, sir.

But I have to think
of my mother.

What I've heard about
your mom, you may have
a point there, Mr. Simmons.

Let's come to grips
with this thing.

What do you like?
Blondes? Brunettes?
Redheads?

Do you like them skinny,
or do you like them with
meat shaking on their bones?

Well, I think, sir..
. Well, frankly,

I think that spiritual
qualities are more
important than weight.

You like them skinny, so you
can sling them over your
shoulder and be a caveman?

She's little and skinny.
She's cute as a bug.

I really don't like
skinny people, sir.

Well, she's not really
skinny all over, Mr. Simmons.

As a matter of fact,
if you catch her
at the right angle,

you'd think she was
a plate of Jell-O.

Well, I'd rather
not meet her, sir,
if you don't mind.

You've been a mad,
inhibited beast long
enough, Mr. Simmons.

Well, sir,

as much as I appreciate
you offering me
this introduction,

frankly, I can't meet her.

Why not?
There's such a thi
ng as morals, sir.

There's also such a thing
as 50 million years of
evolution, Mr. Simmons.

Now tell the truth,
Mr. Simmons, don't you ever
have any wicked thoughts?

Very seldom, sir.

You know you have
wicked thoughts all
the time, Mr. Simmons.

You see, I'm wise
to you, Mr. Simmons.

You're not really
an innocent little
lamb at all.

Sir...
Underneath you're
a snarling wolf.

Sir...
So wait until you
meet Rosebud.

The wolf in you will
come to the surface.
Sir, I must speak.

Well, speak, you idiot.
We're not deaf.

Sir, I know that there must
be inside of you, deep insid
of you, a Christian feeling.

You're nuts!
I'm a Mohammedan.

Scoff if you will,
but I must speak
all the same.

May I rise, si
r?
You may rise, Mr. Simmons.

But you can't convert me.

I'm a fire-eating
Callithumpian, and I intend
to resist your blandishments.

Sir...

Sir, I don't think
you know why I've come
here to this school.

I haven't come here
because of its fame
as a military college.

No, I've come here simpl
y to study engineering,
like Mr. Marquales.

Sir, I think when you
understand why I've
come here to this school

you'll understand
why I cannot possibl
y meet this young lady

that you would
like me to meet

Simmons, he is going to
kill you if you don't shut up.

Shut up, Marquales!

Mr. De Paris wants
to hear this.

You see, sir

I can't meet this young lady that
you would like me to meet

because it's
my eventual ambition to
become a chaplain, sir.

Those are the facts, sir.

You see, sir,
my cousin Horace was
killed in the last war.

A most regrettable
death, quite a tragedy.

Horace was caught
in the full-flower
of his youth.

Ever since then, sir, I've
decided that my own pathway
is clearly marked out for me

I shall become a chaplain.

Yes, sir?

How did Horace get it,
Mr. Simmons?

Shrapnel, sir.

Yes, sir.
Shrapnel?

Yes, sir. Then a machi
ne gun mowed him down

and a bomb fell on him.

He got the
Congressional Medal
of Honor

and the Croix de guerre.

I think you're a liar,
Mr. Simmons.

No, si
r.
You know you have
no cousin Horace

who was killed in the war.

Yes, sir
.
You trying to con me?

No.

Tonight, Mr. Simmons,
you are going to
meet Miss Rosebud.

Listen, sir, I can see,
sir, I haven't gotten
through to you.

Sir, don't you
realize your errors?

Why not let the spirit of brotherhood
that's buried deep inside of you

emerge into the glorious air of love and truth?

Go take a shower.

Sir, you aren't really
going to make me meet this girl, are you?

Go on, Mr. Simmons.
But, sir, I get very
tongue-tied around girls.

Go ahead, take a shower

I won't! I promised my mother
on her death bed I wouldn't
go out with any girls.

Now that's a death bed
promise, and I cannot
break a death bed promise.

Your mother isn't
dead, Mr. Simmons.

But she would die
if she knew I went out
with a girl like this,

so it's actually
a death bed promise
in a deeper sense.

Get out of here

Excuse me, sir. But are
you trying to make him
go and report us all?

If you make me go out
with this girl, I'm going
to throw myself off the roof.

Go take a shower

Do you think demoralizing
him like this will make
him keep his mouth shut?

If it won't,
then nothing will.

Actually, sir,

I'm much more
likely to report you
than Simmons is.

You know better than to
do that, Mr. Marquales.

Besides, you're not
the informer type.

But reporting you,
it would be informing, sir?

You may not believe this

but I'm sorry
for what happened.

Yes, it's true
I had it in for Georgie

But I'm sorry for him now.
I'm even sorrier
for Major Avery.

I saw that man's
face when he found

his son on the
quadrangle this morning.

You really are
a con man, sir.

If I didn't know you,
I'd think you were
telling the truth.

Hi, Roger.
Jock, I want to talk to you

I'll be right there, Roger.
What happened?

Well, Simmons is okay,
but Marquales,
I don't know.

Ramey has already
questioned those guys, Joc
They ain't said anything.

Yeah, but Major Avery is
going to put a lot more
pressure on them than that.

Boy, just don't stan
d there sipping water,
let's do something.

I'm telling you, Jock,
those freshman talk
and we're gone goslings

Why don't you talk to him,
Harold? You talk to Marquales.

Let him know how you feel.

Well, all righ
t. I'll go see wh
at I can do.

Hey, Roger. What are you
doing up there, boy?

I'll be dogged if I'm
losing my killer instinct.
Come on up here.

At ease, mister. Rest.

Them steps are going
to be the death of me.

Phew!

Come on, Mr. Marquales,
I got to have
a little talk with you.

Listen, if you say
anything about what happened last night

you won't just be
throwing Jock out, you
'd be throwing out me,

Rog and your own roommate.

This is Rog and my
fourth year here, mister

I know you've just
been here a few months.

Think about what
it means to me and Rog.

You know as well as I do
, we didn't know
what Jock was doing.

Do you honestly thin
k that I knew
what Jock was up to?

No, sir.
I know you didn't.

How can you
report us then?

Attention to orders,
attention to orders.

Cadets Marquales, R.,
and Simmons, M.M., report
to the guard room immediately.

I say again,
Cadets Marquales, R.,
and Simmons, M.M.,

report to the guard room
immediately. That is all.

Cadet Simmons.
Yes, sir?

Officially this
investigation is closed,

but my son says
he went into your
room last night.

It's hard for me to believe
he'd tell me a deliberate lie.

I want to appeal to you
and to your roommate
for the truth.

Did he or did he not
go into your room?

Well, sir,
I was asleep, sir.

I didn't hear him
come into the room,
if he did.

Cadet Marquales.
Yes, sir?

You heard nothing?
My son didn't go
into your room?

No, sir.

Let me put something
to you hypothetically,
Cadet Marquales.

Let's suppose
that an upperclassman

abused his authority
to force a freshman
to break regulations.

Suppose this freshman
knew he would be expelled
if he told the truth.

It would be asking a lot
to ask that freshman to
tell the truth, wouldn't it?

Well, yes, sir, it would.

And yet, in all fairness,
this freshman didn't
have to obey illegal orders,

did he?
No, sir.

I don't know what
this school means to you,

but I do know what
it means to my son.

You look like a decent boy,

and I'm going to make
an appeal to you.

If you've lied,
tell the truth.

Sure, I'll pitch you out
of this school so fast it'll
make your head swim,

but I'll respect you
as a man.

Well, sir,

I would like very much
to have your respect, sir.

But the truth is,
I didn't obey any
illegal orders, sir.

All right. That's all.

I don't guess
you can be blamed.

Standing there doing nothing
How can you live
with yourself, you coward?

Coward,
informer, leper

I'll sing Polly
wolly doodle all day

Fare thee well,
fare thee well

Fare thee well,
my fairy fay ?

Marquales, don't you stand
up when you enter an
upperclassman's room?

Stand up hard, mister,
and pull your neck back.

Now, you listen to me, Jocko
I just lied for you
and saved your dirty skin.

But if you ever put me
through anything
like that again,

so help me, I'll get you
, if it's the last thing
I ever do.

So help me,
I'll break your back

Do you hear me, Jocko?

Yes, I hear you.

Well, don't you forget it.

Hello, Jocko.
Hello, Cockroach.

How are you, Jock?
Fine, Cockroach.

May I disturb you
for a moment, Jock?
Any time, Cockroach

Jocko! I just want
to speak with you!

This will get you, boy.
This will kill you!
Jock, don't! Please!

I'm serious, Jock!
You're a three dollar bill, Perrin

Please! Don't! Jocko!

Jocko, I just don't
understand you.
I swear I don't.

Sometimes you just
upset me so much.

You still following
me around?

I'm only taking a shower

What's a cockroach
doing taking a shower?

Jocko, there's something
I want to discuss with you.

Now look, Cockroach,
if you don't stop
hanging around me,

I'm going to get some DDT
and pour it all over you.

Oh, Jocko,
give me that soap.
There you go.

Please, guys,
give me my soap!

Here, Perrin.

Jocko, please!
You want your soap back?

Yes, please!
Here, have some soap!

Have some soap.
Have some soap,
Cockroach.

All right.

Now, I know exactl
y how you beat
Georgie unconscious

You got him drunk
by sticking that tub
e down his throat

and pouring
whiskey in him.

And if you try
and throw me o
ut of this room,

I'll go right to Colonel Ramey
with the whole story.

Now, sit down. Sit.

All I ask of you, Jocko,
is that you be reasonable.

How do you know
I did anything
to Georgie?

I oversaw you.
I watched the whole
thing from the gallery.

You oversaw me?

You really are
a cockroach,
aren't you?

No, I'm not a cockroach

I'm a creative writer.

Well, go ahead and laugh
, everyone does,

but I have
the fire of genius in me

I'm sure of it,
practically certain

I'm not laughing, Perrin.

An artist isn't appreciated
in this country.

Now, here I'm sent by
my family to a military
school for discipline.

While in Europe,
with my talent, why,
I'd already be famous.

Now you may
not believe this

but most of the cadets
around here regard me
as a creep.

Well, you know
how they are, Perrin.

All they think about
is football and things
like that.

What do you have
in these note books?

It's a novel

Semi-biography.
No kidding.

And you're
the hero of it, Jock

Well, what's
the point of that,
Perrin?

Well, I'm sort of
your Boswell, Jock.

Every great hero
has his biographer.

Of course, you realize
I've only used you
as my inspiration.

But it's all here.
The facts, I mean.

Would you like me to read yo
just a brief little excerpt?

I'd love to hear
some of it.

Would you?

I was hoping you'd say tha
I hope you like it.

I do hope you
like my style.

I'll just start he
re with Chapter 92.

"The trembling rats
lay sweating in their beds

"as the footsteps of
the Major pounded in utter
silence on the gallery.

"The hulking beast crouched
behind the uniforms

"like an unborn fetus."

This is the part
where Gatt is hidd
en in the press

and the freshmen
pretend to be asleep

and the Major
comes up to inspect

Of course you realize
I have changed the
names of the characters

I call you, "Knight Boy.

You call me what?

Knight Boy.

That's the title of the book
too. Knight Boy.

Isn't that poetic?

Now just let me re
ad you a part of this

I think I get
the general idea.

Does this bore you?

Oh, no.

Do you like my style
? I've worked terribly
hard on my style.

It's original.
Don't you think?

There's no doubt
about it, Perrin.

You have talent.

Thank you.
I appreciate that.

Of course,
nobody would ever
believe the story,

but the style
is magnificent.

I rather like the story

Well, don't worry.
I'll disguise it before
I ever show it to anybody.

This is strictly betwe
en you and me, Jock.

All I wanna have
is your confidence
and your friendship

Well, you have that, Perrin.

I had no idea
you were so talented.

Well, I'll be around, Jock.

Sure. Come around and read me
the next chapter

Of course, you realize
I'm pretty busy, though

Well, don't worry,
I won't bother you,
but I'll be around.

Fine. I'll see you later

I thought you couldn't
stand that guy.

Man, I never
knew you liked him.

I don't.

What's he doing
in here anyhow?

He was reading me a book

Cockroach writes.

One, two,
three, four.

One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

Halt.

One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
Prepare arms!

Come on, Simmons.

I'm hurrying
as best as I can

Look, Simmons,
you want to go
with me to a movie

or you want to go
with Jocko to
meet Rosebud?

I'm hurrying the
fastest that I can.

Listen, Simmons,
if you're not ready by..

All right, that's
enough out of you,
Mr. Marquales.

Just don't go giving
me orders. You see, you're
a freshman. I don't...

Rest.

Mr. Simmons,
don't you and I have
a date tonight?

Look, Jocko, don't you think this joke's gone far enough?

Mr. Simmons,
you be at the Hair of
The Hound Club in an hour.

And that's an order.

I won't go.
This is a free country.

Go on, get dressed.
I'll go with you.

You are a hypocrit
e. You really are.

You want me to have
to go out with this girl

Listen, Simmons,
I'm trying to help you.
Now go on and get ready.

Oh, I don't want
to meet any girl

Well, you're bigger than
she is, Simmons. You can
always punch her in the nose.

This place ain't
really very cultured

This hotly seasoned
Italian food gives me
a case of indigestion.

I think I'll have
me a lamb chop.

Oh.

That's an excellent choice,
Sugar Bug.

They're noted
for their juicy
lamb chops here.

Don't call me "Sugar Bug."
I ain't no bee.

I'm sorry, Angel Turkey.

Would you greatly mind
calling me by my
given Christian name?

How do you know
I don't know your...
I don't know your name?

What is your name, hon?

My name's Peonie

Peonie.

Well, I thought you...
I thought you said
you weren't a flower.

Peonie ain't no flower.
Oh, no?

It's a musical instrument,
like a guitar, only little.

What's more, I don't know what you want
to take me here for

when we can dine and dance
down at the hotel.

This place hasn't
got no culture at all.

Look at all
that old sawdu
st on the floor.

Well, honey, sawdust
on the floor is
considered very chichi.

It's considered what?

Considered chichi.

You know, fashionable.
The thing.

Don't talk that Italian to me.
I'm an American

Jo! Jo!

Hi. You ready to order?

I'll order, and then
we'll go upstairs
and get your date.

What date?

Don't you remember that
very cultured gentleman
I told you about?

The boy I want you to meet?

Oh, yeah

But I thought you was my date this evening

Well, we're both
your date, honey.

Isn't that a little crowded?

Not really.

Jo!

We'll have
two antipastos,

and then we'll have
a bottle of red wine.

And I'll have
veal scaloppini,

and a nice, juicy lamb chop
for the young lady.

Excuse me, Lotus Petal.

I'll be right back.

He wouldn't dare bring
a girl in here.
They have their shirts off.

Oh, relax, Simmons.

My two favorite freshmen.

And my favorite
freshman of them all.

She's downstairs.
She's dying to meet you.

Is there really
a girl downstairs?
Yes, there is.

At the moment she's
eating a lamb chop.
When she sees a lamb chop,

those little white
teeth of hers just
snap automatically.

I guess it's
the beast in her.

Mr. Simmons,
you're looking
a little bloated today.

Excuse me, but what are you
trying to accomplish by
having him meet this girl?

Be quiet, Mr. Marquales.

Mr. Simmons,
I imagine that you,
like most of us,

have dreamed in
your lonely hours
of meeting a girl

who isn't the higgling,
picky type.

You just treat her
like Duchess Poop-a-doop.

Every once in a while,
toss her a lamb chop.

And before you
can say "whoops,"

you'll be known
around the campus as
Casanova Simmons.

Now let's get
spick-and-span
for Rosebud.

Wait a minute, Jocko,
what's the point of this?

A man has to have
a hobby, Mr. Marquales.

De Paris,
you're under arrest.

Well, what do you mean,
I'm under arrest?

I mean just what I said.

Get your hat.
I'm taking you back
to the barracks.

By whose order
am I under arrest?

By order of
Major Avery.
Come on.

Let's go.

Come on, Simmons,
we better see
what's going on.

Come in

Here's Cadet De Paris, sir.

Thank you.
That's all.

Cadet De Paris,

do you always go on
general leave when
you're on guard duty?

When I'm what, sir?

I said, do you always
go on general leave
when you're on guard duty?

I'm not on guard duty, sir.

Here's your name
right on the guard list

I was relieved of
guard duty last week
by Colonel Ramey, sir.

You were?
Yes, sir.

Oh.

Yes. I see a not
e about it there.

That was very careless
of me, De Paris.

Well, sir, anyone
can make a mistake.

Of course. Certainly

And I'm sorry,
really sorry.

Look, Cadet De Paris

I got you here
on a ruse, really.

Actually, I have no busine
questioning you at all.

But I did want to
ask you one thing.

Yes, sir?

It's about my son, George.

Yes, sir?

As ridiculous as it is,

he insists that you are responsible
for his difficulties

I didn't bother to ask
you about it before becaus
well, it's so absurd.

Well, sir, I don't see how
he maintains I'm responsible
for his difficulties.

His story is ridiculous

He claims that he
didn't have anything
to drink that night.

And that you and
some other cadet
he couldn't recognize

beat him up, dressed him
and put him on the quadrangle.

Does he, sir?

Yes, he does.

And as ridiculous as it is,

I thought I'd ask yo
u about it anyhow.

Did you do tha
t, Cadet De Paris
?
No, sir.

It's a feeble tale.

Besides, after all,
the boy was dead drunk.

You can't get around that.
The State Police
themselves say so.

And that makes his charg
e against you obviously
so much nonsense.

Well, sir, as sympathetic
as I am to your son,

I must admit I'm certainly
glad that test was made.

It makes hash out
of his statement tha
t he wasn't drinking.

Obviously, he was drinking.

If he's lying about that
, he must be lying
about everything else.

There's no way a man can
get drunk and not drink,
is there, Cadet De Paris?

No, sir.

You'd better get on
back to your date.

Yes, sir.

Oh, by the way,
Cadet De Paris.

Yes, sir?
At ease.

Do you happen to know what a gag reflex is?

A what, sir?

A "gag reflex."

You mean like
motion sickness, sir?

Now, Cadet De Paris

don't tell me you.
.. You don't know wha
t a gag reflex is.

If you put your finger
down your throat, you gag.

That's right, sir.

Suppose you put any foreign
object down your throat,

say a rubber tube,
you'd do the same thing

It's the gag reflex

It happens even
when you're unconscious

It does, sir?

Yes. Yes, it does.

That's how they put tube
s down people's throats

when they have to pump
out their stomachs
if they've swallowed poison

or sleeping pills.

By the same token,

you could put something
into the stomach
as well as take it out.

If you had some sort of
apparatus to do it with.

Come here.

Well, Cadet De Paris?

Well, sir?

This is how you did it.

Did what, sir?

Poured a pint of
whiskey into that boy.

I didn't have any
proof before,
but I've got proof now.

Sir, I swear to you,
I don't know what on Earth
you're talking about.

You know very well
what I'm talking about.

You seem to be
saying I put that tube

down your son's throat
and poured whiskey in him.

I can't believe you'd make
an unfounded, crazy
charge as that, sir.

What would you say
if I told you that
after I found this,

I took it to the
State Police lab

and that the technician
there discovered
whiskey in this tube?

How did that whiskey
get in there, Cadet De Paris?

It didn't, sir.
That lab technician
didn't find anything.

You're bluffing, sir.
Am I?

Now let me ask you
why you're so sure.

How do you know
there's no whiskey
in there?

Well, sir, it's got to
be one of two things.

Either this is
all your imagination,

in which case there'd
be no whiskey
in that tube,

or you're right,
I did it all,
just as you say.

Now, sir, if I was such
a Machiavellian, crafty,

conniving character
as all that,

would I be so stupid
as to leave whiskey
in that tube

for you to come along
and find it?
I don't think so, sir.

It stands to reason
that thing would be
washed with loving care.

Of course, sir,
you could have
put whiskey there

for the police to find.

I wouldn't think
of such a thing.

Well, it's too late
to do it now, sir.

All right. But you're no
t getting away with this.

Getting away
with what, sir?

You know perfectly well.
Cut out the acting, De Paris

I'm not acting, sir.
You're the one
that's acting.

All this stuff about my name
being on the guard list,

all this poop about
your son's story
being ridiculous.

Who are you
kidding, Major?

You young scoundrel,
don't you provoke me
. I'm warning you.

You want to know
what happened, sir?
I'll tell you what happened.

You sure will.

You'll tell me right now,
and then you'll go with
me and tell Colonel Ramey.

Well, this is
what happened, sir.

Your son got blind drunk,
fell down a flight of stairs

and passed out
on the quadrangle.

The sad fact is,
he's had a nervous
breakdown.

Well, if you want
my advice, sir,

then I suggest you put
your son in a sanitarium.

He's a very sick boy, sir.

It would be best for him
to be separated for awhile
from you and Mrs. Avery.

You know, they say
these mental breakdowns
often come

from a lack of
harmony in the home.

No disrespect intended
toward you
and Mrs. Avery, sir.

I'm sure both of you have
tried very hard to be
good parents to Georgie.

You liar! Tell the truth!
Tell me the truth! You liar

Lucky for you, sir,
I'm not a vindictive person.

You've just done me
a terrible injustice.

Jocko, that was
a magnificent performance.

Harold.

I think we just lost
ourselves a major.

What are you doing in here, mister?

I've come to ask
you and Mr. Koble

to meet me and my
roommate in the armory
after inspection, sir.

Meet in the
armory for what?

To talk about reporting
Mr. De Paris, sir.

Reporting De Paris?

How can we report De Paris?

Well, your roommate's
Cadet Colonel, sir.

We could just go to him
and tell him the whole story.

Lord, he'd...
He'd report us all.

We'd... Every one of
us would be expelled

That's why I thought
we ought to meet
and talk it over.

Look, I... I ain't abo
ut to go to the armory,
mister, with you.

Well, in that case,
we'll just have to
meet without you.

But remember, sir,
if any one of us talks,
that's enough.

Wait.

Jocko, he's
gonna kill us all.

He won't know
anything about it, sir.

Will you ask Mr. Koble
to come along with you?

What was that freshman
doing in our room, Roger?

Oh, nothing, Laurie.
He was just visiting.

If Jocko hears about
this, Mr. Marquales,
he's gonna kill you.

This meeting wasn't my idea, sir

I never told him we
should give ourselves up

Well, I ain't about
to give myself up.

Relax, boy, there's nobody
giving themselves up.

Who in the Sam Hill
do you think you
are anyway, Robert?

Going around acting
like a darn hero.

I'm not trying to
act like a hero, sir.

Those are exactly
my own sentiments, sir.

He is definitely
trying to act heroic

Come on now,
let's stop acting like a Dumb John

But, sir...
Shut up!

What are you trying to
do, Robert, clear your own
conscience at our expense?

Why should we take
the blame for anothe
r guy's meanness?

We didn't do i
t, Jock did it.

That's right,
Jock did it.

I don't even know what is going on

None of us here had
no idea he's planning on
doing all that to Georgie,

let alone the Major

Jock doesn't have anything
against the Major any more
than he does against Georgie.

It was obvious last night
who he's really against.

Who's he against, Robert?

Everybody, sir.

It may well be.

There's nothing we can do about it.
Now is there, mister?

Is there one
blessed thing that
we can do about it?

Listen, sir, ever since
I come to this school,

people have been calling
me mister and asking
me stupid questions.

Now what is this
place, anyhow?
What's wrong with us?

We're letting Jocko De Paris
use us just as he pleases,

and even now we're going
to let him get away with it.

Are we so used
to obeying orders
we lost our guts?

Whatever we decide
here, I know one thing,

I'm leaving this school.

I feel like a misfit.

I don't belong here.

It's wrong to blame
the school, Robert.

It ain't the school'
s fault about Jocko.

Shoot, that boy'd been
the way he is no matter
where he'd have gone.

Now, Harold, you know
he flourished here like
a toadstool in a swamp.

School ain't no swamp.

This is a good college,
and you may not belong here

but this is a good college.

You know yourself
the Major broke Jock
of his rank just last year.

Broke his rank?

A sadistic bully,
and they break his rank.

Now you tell me
why they didn't get
really tough with him?

Well, I don't know.

I just don't think
you're right about
the school, Robert.

I'd be very glad, sir,
if you could prove me wrong.

Well, it's easy for you
to talk because you're
planning on leaving anyhow.

How about the rest of us

Me and old Roger got a lot to lose.
Gonna get dishonorable discharges

Credits won't be no
good at another school.

Three years we've spent
here ain't going to
amount to a doggone thing.

I know that, sir.

That's why I thought
we ought to have
this little talk

before anybody
does anything.

Hey, Roger,
are you in here?
Roger?

Laurie? Over here.

Here we are, honey.
Here we are, baby.

What's he look lik
e, this fellow?

Who? Simmons?

Well, now,
he's very handsome,

and he's intelligent,
and he's very cultured.

Well, I hope I get
to meet him this time.

The very idea, leaving
me sitting in that cafe
like a nun. Alone.

If that sailor hadn't come
along, I don't even know
how I'd have got home.

- Don't worry, don't worry, honey.
- Jocko!

This time there's not
going to be any...
Jocko!

Jocko, I want to
speak to you about...
Later.

Get rid of this girl
and come along with me.

I want to talk to you
about the last chapter.

I'm not in the mood
for literature tonight.

Jocko, the last chapter is going to be gruesome

Fine. Fine, you just...
You just write it up.
I'm sure it will be fine.

But I don't want to
write that. It's not t
he ending I had in mind.

Well, you just use
that style of yours.
I'm sure it will be fine.

Curfew's midnight
tonight, boy.

Yeah, fine. I'll see
you later, Perrin.

Here we are,
Angel Turkey.

This place looks fun
. I feel like I've
been here before.

We were here
yesterday, hon.

I like those old,
foreign countries
and all this old sawdust

d.
and all this old,
hotly seasoned foo

Did you notice
that cadet?

Yes, I saw him.

What do you make of him?

His legs are too long.

I don't... I don't mean that,
Rosebud. I mean the sign.

It looks a little nicer
here today.

All cadets and none
of them foreigners.

Let's get out of here.

But I haven't eaten ye
t.
Come on.

t.
I haven't eaten ye

Well, I'm getting
out of here.

Excuse me, sir,
but you weren't
leaving, were you?

Mr. Simmons is upstairs
waiting to meet the girl, according to your orders

Well, you...
You tell him to forget it.

But, sir, there's someone
else waiting to meet you.

Who?
Some cadets, sir.

Would you like to come up?

Why not?
No reason at all, sir.

See you later, Rosebud.

Well, fellows, this look
s like quite a party.
Am I invited?

You're the
guest of honor.

Sit down on that chair.

De Paris, the men
in this room
and the men outside

don't intend to let you
get away with what
you've done to Major Avery.

Well, he hit me.

And I must say, I used every
bit of restraint refrainin
from knocking his head off

Who do you think you are
, the Ku Klux Klan?

If I'd done something
wrong, Corger,

why haven't I been reported
to a regular Honor Court?

Because an Honor Court
couldn't make you
sign this statement.

We can.

You guys really do think
you're the Ku Klux Klan,
don't you?

Do you realize that
what you are doing
is completely illegal?

Every one of you guys
could be expelled for this.

For what we're doing to you,
we could get a lot worse.

You certainly could.
I've been abducted
in a public restaurant

I think you're all
out of your minds.

All right, De Paris,
now you read this.
And sign it.

Read it!

This is crazy.
I never did any of this.
Who says I did this?

Go ahead and sign, De Paris.
You're not fooling
anybody in this room.

I deny these charges,
and I challenge you
to prove them.

Witnesses have
testified against you.

Now you'd better sign
while you're still able to

Well, let me see
these witnesses.

Bring them in.
Let them say this
to my face.

All right, bring them in.

These men accuse me
of this?

That's right.

You can question them
if you want to.

Harold, is this true?
Did you guys tell these
stories about me?

Yeah, Jock.

Why, Harold? What for?

Don't you remember
the bull sessions, Harold?
The good times?

Jocko, I still thi
nk you've got quite
a sense of humor,

but, boy, you're about
the lowest darn creature
I've ever seen in my life.

Okay, I'll tell
the truth.

We know the truth
already, De Paris.

You just sign
this statement.

Oh, I can't sign that statement

cause there's something
in it that isn't true at all

Sure, Georgie was framed
, but my hands are clean.

Gatt beat him up,
those freshmen poure
d whiskey in him,

and Koble carried him
down to the quadrangle.

Why did all this happen
in the first place?

It was a practical joke
that Gatt and Koble and
I were playing on Georgie.

This was no practical joke.

It was a deliberate,
cold-blooded plan to
ruin him and Major Avery.

And you engineered it.

No, that's not true at all.
And that's why I can't
sign that statement.

You guys are nuts!

Now who would believe all this bunk anyhow?

How could I make
Gatt beat up Georgie?

He's twice my size.
And these freshmen,

did I hold a pistol
to their heads and
make them do this?

Did I?

Oh, no, no. They're
just as guilty as I am.

Oh, I get it.
I get it, Corger

I get it. You're trying
to get these boys off.

They rat on me like a bunch of
stinking cowards

and you're tryin
g to get them off.

You don't care anything
about Major Avery at all

it's these guys you care about.
Oh, clever, very clever

These men gave
themselves up voluntarily,

knowing they were
ending their careers
at this school.

Don't make me laugh,
Corger.

All I want out of you
is your signature
on this statement right now.

I'm not signing anything

You've got
one minute to sign.

I'll tell you
what I'll do, Corger.

I'll make a...
I'll make a deal with you.

Fifty seconds.
You let me go.

I don't care about
the school anyway.

You let me go after I sign.
I'll go tonight.
I'll take a train.

And you want to make
a really good deal?

Thirty-five seconds.

I'll scratch the names
of these men off.

.
Let them go.
I don't care

I can see you're more sympathetic to them anyhow

And I must admit,
they're really not
to blame.

Twenty-five seconds.

Now you must admit,
I'm being very truthful
and honest, fellows.

Now, it's not
that I'm afraid.

I mean, what can you do to
me anyway, except beat me up,
or something like that.

Ten seconds.

I'm not going to sign
unless you promise
to let me go.

Five, four, three, two...

Okay. Okay, I'll sign.

You see, fellows,
I'm scratching off
their names.

Don't scratch anything
off, just sign!

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir, I'll sign.

Now, fellows,
I'll go with you
to the Colonel

and I'll take the blame
for everything.

Hamilton! Roger!
Let's get him out of here.

Fellows! We made a dea
l! We made a deal!

All right, let's go

Wait, put that jukebox on!

Where are you taking him?
What are you going to do with him?

Can I come?
Perrin, call the cops.

Call the cops, Perrin.
Oh, I couldn't
interfere, Jocko

All right, put him in!
He knew the whole thing.

He never said a word.

He's lying.
I didn't know nothing.

All right, fellows, let's go.
Come on, Koble.
Get lost, boy.

Please, let me in.
Let me in!

Bye, Knight Boy.

Where are you
taking me, fellows?

you're just trying
to scare me, is that it?

Why, you... You wouldn
't do anything to me,
would you, fellows?

You wouldn't beat up
a helpless man?

I can't believe
college cadets would
do a thing like that.

You wouldn't dare.
I see through a bunch
of peasants like you.

You're just trying
to make me crawl,
is that it?

That's it, isn't it?
You want to make
me crawl, huh?

Listen to me.

You're a bunch
of stupid jerks!

You're nothing!
You're nothing!
You're nothing!

All right. All right.
All right. All right.

You can't do anything
to me anyhow.

Nothing.

You'll find out the man
you're dealing with is
a man named Jocko De Paris.

You'll find out
that my name is not
Charles L. Chickenfeathers,

my name is Jocko De Paris.
That's right.

And that name means guts,
and brains, and will power!

I'll laugh at what
you do to me!

Let's go.

All right, give
me the blindfold.

Harold...
Leave me alone!

Come here, De Paris.
Get up here.

Up against this tree
. Now hold him here.

Blindfold.
Here.

Corger. Corger, you call...
You call this fair play, huh

You call this fair play?
You're all a bunch
of morbid slobs!

All right, hold hi
m!
Grab his legs!

All right, De Pari
s, come on. This way.

Where are we?
Where are we?

What are the tracks fo
r?
Come on, De Paris.

You wouldn't do
anything foolish,

would you?
Stand up, mister.

You'll all go to jail.
You'll all go...

Please, fellows,
don't do anything to me.
Harold? Harold?

Harold, I played fair,
didn't I?
Come on, De Paris.

I did what you wanted me t
didn't I, Harold?

Come on,
on your feet, boy.
Harold, didn't I?

Come on, De Paris.

Come on, let's go.

Come on.

Come on, De Paris,
on your feet.
Didn't I, Harold?

Let's go, boy.

No. No, please, fellows,
don't do anything.

I don't want to die!
I don't want to die!

All right, take him off

All I ask for is justice.

Please, don't, fellows.
Please, don't do
anything to me.

Please.

I'll be back!
I'll get you guys!

You can't do this
to Jocko De Paris!

I'll get you guys!

I'll be back!

I'll be back!