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From: diy@sb6.UUCP (D. I. Young)
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Subject: Memorable Scenes
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Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 10:08:15 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 24 10:08:15 1984
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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