Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Edit

A Beni Wejh sherif.

A couple of armoured cars.

A fair bargain.

A few hours each day.

A man can be whatever he wants. You said.

A man can do whatever he wants. You said.

A man cannot be always in uniform.

A place in here?

A servant's wages.

A silly people.

A silly people.

A trifle which they take f rom a great box they have.

A very low occupation.

A void Mellaha, the Turks are there.

About my people and their weakness...

Ah, now you are talking turkey, are you not?

Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers.

Ah, yes. But then Lawrence is a sword with two edges.

Al Lawrence is best.

Al Lawrence.

Alas, you resemble your father.

Ali, get a message down the coast to Yenbo.

Ali!

Ali.

All I can say is, sir, it's a heavy responsibility.

All right, Dryden. You can have him for six weeks.

All right, fetch another.

All right, I'll settle for Al Lawrence.

All right, I'm extraordinary.

All right, three. Now, will you let me do some work, Mr. Dryden?

All right. Yes.

All there is.

All you want is someone holding down the Turkish Right.

Allenby wanted the Arab army behind Deraa.

Allenby's in Jerusalem.

Almost.

Already?

Also, my interests are the same as yours. You want your story told.

Always walking away, aren't you?

Always.

Am I going for Jerusalem?

Am I in this?

An agreement to that effect.

And a man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth.

And all the activities of the English gentleman.

And Allah be thanked.

And as it happens, a damned important one. Are you mad?

And Auda's pleasure is to serve the Turks.

And before I leave here...

And before?

And bring the Arab army here to Aqaba, quickly.

And by the night when it darkeneth...

And carry on the good work.

And from Masturah Well to Lord Feisal's camp, one day more.

And how much of that is there?

And I must do it...

And I want an ordinary job, sir.

And I...

And I'm going back to Allenby to ask him for a job...

And in 20 days they will start to die.

And in the end shall your Lord be bounteous to thee...

And is he Harith?

And is that possible?

And it will be further behind your right when you go for Jerusalem.

And Lawrence promised gold.

And let's have no displays of indignation.

And lost his taste for fighting.

And no man needs nothing.

And no one is offended.

And now, Selim, The Brightness.

And observe the prayers.

And rest while it is too hot to travel.

And strike where they please. This makes them great.

And surely the future shall be better for thee than the past.

And the end of the Arab revolt?

And the French interest too. We must not forget the French.

And the need to keep them in the British interest.

And the other, wholly unscrupulous.

And the Turks made mincemeat of them.

And the vices of peace are the vices of old men.

And then they will believe you.

And then...

And there's nothing I can do about it.

And these...

And they have ceased to work. And this is true.

And they're in the town hall.

And this is the way you should fight now.

And thou be satisfied.

And to make him known to the world.

And Tracey, all troops to remain quartered until further orders.

And Turkey.

And what are you teaching him today? Howeitat hospitality?

And what will you do now?

And when we've got it, we'll keep it.

And where are you going, lieutenant?

And where the hell do you think you're going to, Mustapha?

And yet now it seems Auda has grown old.

And you are part of it.

And you will take the children?

And you?

And you're balmy!

Any questions?

Anywhere within 300 miles of Medina.

Aqaba behind my right.

Aqaba!

Aqaba!

Aqaba?

Aqaba.

Aqaba.

Aqaba.

Aqaba's linked with Medina.

Aqaba's over there.

Arabia's for the Arabs now.

Are chief architect of this compromise.

Are neither Harith nor Howeitat...

Are you alone?

Are you really going to give them artillery, sir?

Are you speaking from experience?

Are you with those dogs drinking at my well?

As a colonel, you'll have a cabin to yourself on the boat home.

As I walk along the Bois de Boulogne With an independent air

As you see.

Auda Abu Tayi!

Auda, I found it!

Auda?

Aye, but for what?

Be not clever with me, English.

Be patient with him, God.

Be warned, you were drifting.

Be warned. They are not suitable.

Beat him.

Because I am a river to my people.

Because I know you'll use it. Congratulations.

Because it has a navy, because of this, the English go where they please...

Because it is his pleasure.

Because it never leaves my head.

Because the Turks have European guns.

Because we are a little people, a silly people...

Bedouin tribes attack Turkish stronghold.

Bedouins and gods, and you're neither. Take it from me.

Bedu food.

Bedu.

Before Aqaba, anyway.

Before he did it, sir, I'd have said it couldn't be done.

Before I return to the fleshpots, which I shall be very glad to do...

Being an Arab will be thornier than you suppose, Harith.

Besides, it was necessary.

Better to have left him.

Beyond every other man.

Big things have small beginnings, sir.

Blasphemy is a bad beginning for such a journey.

Bloody savages.

Bloody wogs.

British and Arab interests are one and the same.

But from which army?

But gold is honorable...

But he can't want what he wants.

But however much, it must be crossed before tomorrow's sun gets up.

But I bet it isn't mentioned in the Times.

But I fear to do it...

But I suppose I could be wrong.

But I will spare these to you.

But I would like to hear his opinion.

But I... I cannot serve.

But I'm going to give them Damascus. We'll get there before you do.

But in whose name do you ride?

But influential men back home believe it's time for America...

But Mallud, we could have the fusiliers there by Wednesday.

But my father is old...

But the Arabs?

But then, I do not understand this. Your father's name is Chapman.

But then, of course, he is almost an Arab.

But there must be artillery!

But to show it in its more adventurous aspects.

But why, lord?

But why, lord?

But wiser people must decide. I know you are right.

But you forgot the Turkish Military Hospital.

But you got what you wanted, so you're going home, is that it?

But you speak the truth.

But you will not be at Aqaba.

But...

By special train in two days' time.

By the noonday brightness...

By the way, if Captain Gibbon should enquire for me...

By...

Call off your men.

Can I take this?

Can relieve us of them, according to the Code.

Can you do it? I'll give you a lot of money.

Can you imagine what that means?

Can you manage the letter ?

Can you read?

Can you understand that? You're an important part of the big push!

Certainly the Turks don't dream of it.

Certainly.

Charming company you keep.

Chicago Courier is my paper, but my work is syndicated in America.

Cigarette?

Cocky?

Colonel Brighton means to put my men under European officers, does he not?

Come on, men!

Come on, then.

Come on!

Come on!

Come.

Come.

Congratulations!

Control yourself.

Corporal, we'll have this one out anyway.

Courage and hope for the future.

Cross my heart and hope to die, it's all perfectly true.

Damascus, Lawrence.

Damascus!

Damascus!

Damascus! Damascus!

Damascus! Damascus!

Damn it! Who do you take your orders from?

Daud will be angry with you.

Delivered anywhere, day or night.

Detonator.

Did Ali break confidence to tell me?

Did Auda come to Aqaba for gold?

Did I answer well?

Did you do it?

Did you know him well?

Did you know your own?

Did you take his picture?

Did you take it?

Didn't you know? They can only kill me with a golden bullet.

Difficult question, sir.

Dine with Auda, English.

Dine with me.

Dine with the Howeitat, Harith.

Do that, then.

Do you know General Allenby?

Do you think he's gone native, Harry?

Do you think it was worth it?

Do you usually wear your cap in the mess?

Do you?

Does not wish to appear at the peace conference as an aggressor.

Does that apply to technical units?

Does the Arab Bureau want a big thing in Arabia?

Does the bureau think they'll sit down under us when this war is over?

Does your father still steal?

Don't do that.

Don't tell me my duty, Mr. Dryden.

Don't think so, sir.

Don't!

Doughty, Stanhope...

Dreaming won't get you to Damascus, but discipline will.

Due west.

Easy, gentlemen, please.

Eat.

Eat.

English blasphemer!

English will teach Bedu to fight?

English!

Enough. Enough! Make them stop!

Excuse me, friend. Who do these bags belong to?

Excuse me, sir.

Explain yourself.

Fair enough.

Fair? I robbed him.

Fair? What's fair got to do with it?

Fall back on Yenbo and we will give you equipment.

Fall back on Yenbo, the Arab Rising becomes one unit in the British army.

Farraj, don't! Don't!

Farraj!

Farraj?

Farraj.

Fascinating gear they wear.

Field artillery.

Fifty men?

Fifty? Against Aqaba?

Find out what his intentions are. Not his immediate intentions.

Find out what kind of a man he is.

Find Prince Feisal.

Fine.

Fire back at them.

Fire has broken out.

First I take you to Lord Feisal, then you give it to me.

First the guns, and now this.

For my pleasure, as you said.

For ordinary men, it's a burning fiery furnace.

For the camels, no water at all.

For the English generals.

For the rotten bloody newspapers.

For what? He will be dead by midday.

Four times as many.

France and England should share the Turkish Empire.

Freedom.

From Cairo?

From here until the other side, no water but what we carry.

From Lord Feisal, in Feisal's tent.

From now on, we must travel by night...

From the land.

From the landward side, there are no guns at Aqaba.

Garlands for the conqueror.

Gasim you have killed already.

Gasim.

Gasim's time is come, Lawrence. It is written.

Gasim's.

General salute!

Get out of my way.

Get out! You must get out! Get out!

Get them out of it, sir, quick time.

Give thanks to God, Brighton...

Give them artillery and you've made them independent.

Give them something to do that can be done. But you, no.

Give you arms, advice, training, everything.

Giving military advice.

Go back, blasphemer...

Go back, then!

Go north.

Go round. Damascus, Lawrence, Damascus.

God be with you.

God be with you.

God be with you.

God be with you.

God help the men who lie under that.

God help them.

God knoweth that there be some among you sick...

God knows.

God willing, midday.

God willing.

God.

God.

Godspeed.

Good army compass.

Good God! God!

Good heavens.

Good morning, sir.

Good?

Good. And when I've found him?

Goodbye, Dolly, I must leave you

Gordon of Khartoum.

Greedy, barbarous and cruel, as you are.

Greetings, Ali.

Guns like the Turkish guns at Medina.

Halt!

Have we any ambition in Arabia, Dryden?

Have we done it?

Have we?

Have you been in Damascus, Mr. Lawrence?

Have you met Lawrence since he's come back?

Have you no fear, English?

Have you two slept in beds?

Have you?

Haven't we met before?

Having led them here, have you no care for them?

Hazimi, of the Beni Salem.

He can't be far from Mallud...

He can't do that in six weeks.

He daren't withdraw. Arabia's part of his empire.

He didn't marry my mother.

He does it better than you, general.

He doesn't mind having his picture taken. He doesn't mind at all.

He for whom nothing is written may write himself a clan.

He has to get to Yenbo, find a guide, find the Arabs and then get back.

He insulted me.

He is a young man, and young men are passionate.

He is dead.

He is my master. I am his servant.

He is not perfect.

He is.

He killed. He dies.

He knew that.

He likes your lemonade.

He longs for the greenness of his native land.

He means generators!

He might be in Arabia. He knows his stuff, sir.

He must be a great hero.

He must be a millionaire

He offered me money.

He pines for the Gothic cottages of Surrey, is it not?

He said there was gold here. He lied.

He says they'll come back. Will they?

He thinks you're a kind of thief.

He told me to gather the Harith here.

He was a poet, a scholar and a mighty warrior.

He was also the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum and Bailey.

He was my friend.

He was nothing.

He was taking me to help Prince Feisal.

He was the most extraordinary man I ever knew.

He was the same man after Deraa. The same man, humbled.

He will come...

He would if he could, I think.

He wouldn't know an interesting face f rom a sow's belly.

He wouldn't ref use water to men coming out of Nef ud Desert.

He'll withdraw.

He's a bit old fashioned. He thinks these things will steal his virtue.

He's got the bit between his teeth all right.

He's lied, in fact.

He's of no use here in Cairo.

He's set up his own headquarters in the town hall.

Headlines.

Hear me, God.

Heavens.

Hello.

Here is my help.

Here is William Potter with my newspaper.

Here you may drink.

Here, let me take your rotten bloody picture.

Here!

Here. You!

Here...

His?

Hit her on the shoulder and say, Hut hut hut.

Hold it, Jenkins!

Honorable?

Honoured, sir.

How about that, Dryden?

How can I fight a bloody war without bloody artillery?

How did he know?

How if I take it?

How is it with thee, Lawrence?

How many men will claim the right to use that phrase? How proudly.

How must he fear himself, who hates himself?

How would I look in this, Harry?

However, before the gardens must come the fighting.

Humbly, Harith?

Humbly?

I am Ali ibn el Kharish.

I am Auda Abu Tayi.

I am Auda Abu Tayi.

I am going to Cairo.

I am surrounded by cattle.

I am. It's better than a nasty, dark little trench.

I ask pardon of Auda Abu Tayi.

I badly want a story to tell.

I believe your name will be a household word...

I bet that no one in this headquarters even knows it happened.

I can both read and write.

I can.

I can't answer for the place. Only for myself.

I can't make out whether you're bad mannered or just half witted.

I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city.

I carry 23 great wounds, all got in battle.

I did it.

I didn't ask you. I want you to go back...

I didn't come here to watch a tribal bloodbath.

I do not propose to let an overweening, crass lieutenant...

I do not want your company, sherif.

I don't know.

I don't think it matters what his motives were.

I don't think that's a very good idea.

I don't want ordinary men. Hut!

I don't want to be part of your big push!

I expect so. We all have troubles. Life's a vale of troubles.

I fight like Clausewitz, then you fight like Saxe.

I had not thought of it when I met you.

I had the honour to shake his hand in Damascus.

I had to execute him with my pistol.

I have a good teacher.

I have been in Cairo for my schooling.

I have been is Deraa now for three and a half years.

I have been to that electrical house, Lawrence.

I have drunk from it.

I have even heard of the Harith.

I have no Arab friends! I don't want Arab friends!

I have no tribe.

I killed two people. I mean, two Arabs.

I knew him.

I knew someone was coming. Feisal told me.

I knew your father well.

I know this treaty does exist.

I know you've been given no artillery.

I know your heart.

I led him into a quicksand.

I long for the vanished gardens of Cordoba.

I mean, his intentions in Arabia altogether.

I must ask you not to speak like that.

I must be a king.

I must find something honorable.

I must go, Lawrence, before I soil myself with a fool's blood.

I must go, Lawrence, before I soil myself with a fool's blood.

I must say, Lawrence!

I overheard your last remark and take the gravest exception.

I pray that I may never see the desert again.

I promise.

I said, they'll come back.

I say!

I scatter, I burn my enemies tents. I take away their flocks and herds.

I see that the canal is an essential British interest.

I see.

I see.

I serve?

I shall not, and if your men attempt it, my men will resist it.

I shall want quite a lot of money.

I tell you, sir, I think he'll get to Damascus before we do.

I tell you, this is nothing.

I think it is far from Damascus.

I think we reach Masturah Well tomorrow. Yes.

I think you are another of these desert Ioving English.

I think you should recommend a decoration, sir.

I think your book is right.

I think.

I told the English generals...

I told you, no rest till they know that I have Aqaba.

I understood so from your letter, Mr. Bentley.

I want to know, sir, if I can tell them in your name...

I was thinking.

I will find it with this.

I will give you a guide and a letter.

I will give you my answer tomorrow. And now...

I will have some facts and figures put on paper for you.

I will take you to Feisal.

I will tell you that when I have a country.

I wonder if they'd offer that much for me.

I wonder where they are now.

I would not say that to Auda.

I would've told them who I am. I would've told them where you were.

I wouldn't be surprised.

I'd be interested to hear you put a question straight.

I'd like to say, sir, that I am gratef ul for this.

I'll be back with the gold.

I'll cross it if you will.

I'll do everything I have said...

I'll drink when you do.

I'll give him that. No escort?

I'll give you every blessed thing I can...

I'll go north.

I'll smash his railways.

I'll tell you, it's my considered opinion and that of my staff...

I'll wake you.

I'm af raid so, Harry.

I'm different.

I'm going for a powwow with the general.

I'm going to give it to them.

I'm going to tell the generals...

I'm going, Ali.

I'm here at the invitation of Major Lawrence.

I'm none of those things, Ali.

I'm not a politician, thank God.

I'm not asking as your superior, but as the secretary of this mess.

I'm not sure.

I'm not the Arab revolt, Ali. I'm not even Arab.

I'm promoting you major.

I'm sorry to rub it in, sir, but we can't supply you here.

I'm sorry, sir, but you're wrong.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I thought it was true.

I'm sure your government...

I'm the man who broke the bank At Monte Carlo

I've already sent out Colonel Brighton, who's a soldier.

I've been sent to find material to show our people that this war is...

I've come to the end of myself, I suppose.

I've got orders to obey, thank God.

I've heard of another man of that name.

I've only just begun to teach him.

I've told him! God knows I've told him.

I've told them that that's false, that we have no ambitions in Arabia.

I've told you, I just want my ration of common humanity.

If 50 men came out of the Nef ud...

If Brighton thinks we should send some arms, we will.

If he dies, will that content the Howeitat?

If he finds he's using four divisions to fend off a handf ul of bandits...

If he gets out now, he'll never get back again.

If I fear him, who love him...

If I need a breakthrough to Jerusalem, I must concentrate, not dissipate.

If none of Lord Auda's men harms any of yours...

If the camels die...

If the enemy's retreating in any order, which we'll assume

If they posted me to the dark side of the moon, I could not be more...

If they take him alive, you know what they'll do to him.

If we ride west, we must strike the canal.

If we'd done what you thought could be done, we'd be in Yenbo now.

If we've told lies, you've told half lies.

If you answer, there will be bloodshed.

If you are right about the guns.

If you can get ahold of Aqaba, we can supply you.

If you go back, you kill yourself, is all.

If you retain it, there will be no water.

If you will tell me truly the nature of your interest...

If you're insubordinate, I shall put you under arrest.

Illusions can be very powerf ul.

In all my years, I've never seen anything like it.

In Aqaba.

In Cairo you will put off these funny clothes.

In Cairo.

In effect, my lord, yes.

In God's name, understand! We cannot go back!

In here.

In Mellaha now? They move fast.

In my opinion, this whole theatre of operations is a sideshow.

In my people and Major Lawrence.

In one hour comes the sun.

In their eyes, we are not soldiers but rebels.

In this country, Mr. Bentley...

In which case I can have him within range by 0900 hours tomorrow.

Including Arabia.

Indeed. You do not seem a romantic man.

Inevitably, one of them's half mad...

Irregular cavalry, sir. About 2000.

Is he your tongue?

Is it the blood?

Is that a desert country?

Is that service?

Is that service?

Is that the influence of Major Lawrence?

Isolated.

It comes within the jurisdiction of the Arab Council.

It doesn't sound as though he'd be any great loss.

It has 600 beds. There are about 2000 Turkish wounded in it.

It is Ali of the Harith who answers.

It is an ancient wound.

It is Auda of the Howeitat who speaks.

It is beautif ul, is it not?

It is customary.

It is for children. I have set myself to learn again.

It is late.

It is my pleasure that you dine with me in Wadi Rumm!

It is not clean.

It is recognized that you have a funny sense of fun.

It is so of all machines.

It is the law, Lawrence.

It is the servant who takes money.

It is well you say it in my tent, thou old tulip.

It is widely known the Arab Council took power in my name.

It means 1000 camels.

It must be so.

It says so in your dossier.

It seems we're to have a British waterworks...

It threatened EI' Arish and Gaza.

It was a brilliant bit of soldiering.

It was execution, Lawrence. No shame in that.

It was written, then.

It will not happen again.

It would be something.

It's a clash of temperament that's going on in there.

It's a terrible thing for a man to funk it if he has.

It's a thing that makes an ugly incident.

It's all right to take your picture?

It's all right, Farraj.

It's all right.

It's all right.

It's an interesting face.

It's an intrigue, Dryden.

It's borrowed. Someone pinched mine.

It's clean.

It's going to happen.

It's intended to.

It's just that the Arab Bureau would like its own man on the spot to...

It's Lawrence, isn't it?

It's madness.

It's my request for release from Arabia, sir.

It's not for you, it's for Lawrence.

It's only a matter of going.

It's small, but it's great. And why?

It's the power.

It's theft. And theft makes thieves.

It's very simple, sir. I'm looking for a hero.

It's what I came for.

Jenkins!

Jesus wept.

Jesus wept.

Jiminy! Never seen a man killed with a sword before.

Jolly good about the squash court.

Jolly good.

Just a minute. What's your name and who sent you?

Just walk.

Just want to be able to say I'd done it, sir.

Knew him? I never knew him.

Knowledge of music...

Knowledge of...

Knows the books, you mean.

Lawrence is not your military adviser.

Lawrence is your man.

Lawrence lied.

Lawrence, I do not think you know how you have tempted Him.

Lawrence, look!

Lawrence, not this.

Lawrence, only two kinds of creature get fun in the desert:

Lawrence, these things know nothing of the Arab revolt.

Lawrence!

Lawrence! Daud!

Lawrence?

Lawrence.

Lawrence.

Lawrence.

Lawrence. I've been seconded to the Arab Bureau.

Lays it on a bit thick, doesn't he?

Leave it, Lawrence. Come with me.

Leave it, Lawrence. Come with me.

Leave me alone.

Let me know if the man's in trouble. I've got a claim in that man.

Let me see that hat thing or whatever it is.

Let them burn. What need of telephones?

Let's have a drink, gentlemen.

Let's hope we're not.

Liberated by the Arab army.

Lieutenant Lawrence, you have met Sherif Ali, I think.

Like talking to a brick wall.

Literature.

Look, Ali, I think I see a way of being just...

Look, Ali. If any of your Bedouin arrived in Cairo and said:

Look, Ali. Look.

Look, Great Britain is a small country, much smaller than yours.

Look, I'm making my big push on Damascus the 16th of next month...

Look, Lawrence, how many men do you think you'll have left? 200?

Look!

Lord Allenby, could you give a few words about Lawrence?

Lord, can we not rest?

Lucky.

Major Lawrence doubtless has reports to make...

Major Lawrence has a horror of bloodshed.

Major Lawrence will campaign this winter.

Major Lawrence!

Major Lawrence!

Major!

Make God your agent!

Marvellous Iooking beggars, aren't they?

May I put two questions to you, straight?

May I shake your hand, sir?

May I...

Maybe it's the bulb.

Maybe. But I am not a deserter.

Me.

Medicals too, sir?

Medicals too.

Michael George Hartley, you're a philosopher.

Michael George Hartley...

Might be difficult to get it back.

Mind if I join you?

Mine.

Mistrust and caution.

Money. It'll have to be sovereigns. They don't like paper.

Monsieur Picot is a French civil servant.

More harshly than I hope you can imagine.

More money.

More than cocky, sir.

Morning.

Morning. You're to go right in.

Moses did.

Moses was a prophet...

Move South, I've said. You're still in range.

Mr. Bentley, you know as much about Lawrence as anybody.

Mr. Sykes and Monsieur Picot met, and they agreed that after the war...

Mr. Sykes is as English civil servant.

Much.

Mustn't talk shop, Freddie, not in the mess.

My army is made up of tribes.

My compass.

My father is Sir Thomas Chapman.

My father, Mr. Lawrence, not the English.

My fear is my concern.

My friend Lawrence, if I may call him that.