Tuesday, March 20, 2007

"You 'can't hear' me...."

[An opening scene from the movie Kelly's Heroes. It's France, late summer 1944. Standing in a barn at night, sheltering from the rain and from an ongoing but inaccurate mortar barrage, Big Joe (played by Telly Savalas), a sergeant leading a reconnaissance platoon, is talking on the radio to a guy named Mulligan.]


"You 'can't hear' me. The reason you 'can't hear' me is because you're firing your mortars at your end, and they're dropping here, at our end."

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