Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!sb1!sb6!diy From: diy@sb6.UUCP (D. I. Young) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Memorable Scenes Message-ID: <159@sb6.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 10:08:15 EST Article-I.D.: sb6.159 Posted: Fri Feb 24 10:08:15 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Feb-84 08:02:52 EST Lines: 35 One scene I particularly like takes place in the movie "March or Die". It stars Gene Hackman and Terrence Hill. They are members of the French Foreign Legion, with Hackman in charge. I can't remember the name of the coun- try they are in, but it is in the desert. Anyway, one of Hackman's men on sentry duty, a young and well-liked kid, is snatched by the desert tribe they're fighting. The Legionaires (sp?) go the camp to try to get him, but when they get there they find him strung up and tortured. Hackman asks the leader what is the meaning of this, and the leader replies: "One of my men became restless." The leader goes into a long spiel about Allah ridding their lands of the invad- ers, and then the whole camp explodes with shouts to Allah and the women start making wierd noises and they're just generally trying to frighten the stuffing out of the Legionaires. While all this goes on one of the tribesman starts torturing the captured again, stabbing him with a sword then spitting in his face. As the tribesman turns back to the Legionaires with a grin on his face he quickly acquires an extra eye-socket courtesy of a shot from Terrence Hill. The camp falls silent save for the sounds of rifles cocking. It's a few Legionaires vs a few score desert people, and it's a face-off. Hackman rides up to stare at Terrence Hill, and (good acting here) you can just feel the communication between them, sort of like "You know better than to fire without orders...but thanks!" Then he rides back to the leader, who's giving him one of those "You must be crazy as hell to dare that crap in MY camp!" look, and stares at him for a few moments, then says: "One of my men became restless!" I loved it!!! The Legionaires then march sining out of camp, leaving the leader gnashing his teeth. (oops, that's "singing" out of camp...they'are not mathematicians.) dennis