1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 2 00:07:55,058 --> 00:07:57,810 He was the most extraordinary man I ever knew. 3 00:07:58,019 --> 00:08:00,146 Did you know him well? 4 00:08:00,564 --> 00:08:01,981 I knew him. 5 00:08:03,525 --> 00:08:06,068 WeIl, nil nisi bonum. 6 00:08:06,361 --> 00:08:08,279 But did he really deserve... 7 00:08:08,488 --> 00:08:10,781 ...a place in here? 8 00:08:25,672 --> 00:08:28,591 Lord Allenby, could you give a few words about Lawrence? 9 00:08:28,842 --> 00:08:30,843 What, more words? 10 00:08:32,596 --> 00:08:34,513 The revolt in the desert... 11 00:08:34,723 --> 00:08:38,392 ...played a decisive part in the Middle Eastern campaign. 12 00:08:38,685 --> 00:08:41,395 Yes, sir, but about Colonel Lawrence himself. 13 00:08:42,189 --> 00:08:46,025 No, no. I didn't know him well, you know. 14 00:08:49,070 --> 00:08:52,239 Mr. Bentley, you know as much about Lawrence as anybody. 15 00:08:52,449 --> 00:08:55,201 Yes, it was my privilege to know him. 16 00:08:55,452 --> 00:08:58,078 And to make him known to the world. 17 00:08:58,371 --> 00:09:02,708 He was a poet, a scholar and a mighty warrior. 18 00:09:02,959 --> 00:09:04,043 Thank you. 19 00:09:04,211 --> 00:09:08,923 He was also the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum and Bailey. 20 00:09:09,341 --> 00:09:11,050 You, sir. Who are you? 21 00:09:11,343 --> 00:09:13,552 My name is Jackson Bentley. 22 00:09:14,054 --> 00:09:17,932 I overheard your last remark and take the gravest exception. 23 00:09:18,225 --> 00:09:20,434 -He was a great man. -Did you know him? 24 00:09:20,727 --> 00:09:22,728 No, I can't claim to have known him. 25 00:09:22,896 --> 00:09:25,397 I had the honour to shake his hand in Damascus. 26 00:09:25,649 --> 00:09:27,274 Knew him? I never knew him. 27 00:09:27,567 --> 00:09:30,945 He had some minor function on my staff in Cairo. 28 00:09:50,757 --> 00:09:52,299 Michael George Hartley... 29 00:09:52,592 --> 00:09:55,886 ...this is a nasty, dark little room. 30 00:09:56,096 --> 00:09:57,137 That's right. 31 00:09:57,430 --> 00:09:59,598 We are not happy in it. 32 00:09:59,808 --> 00:10:03,686 I am. It's better than a nasty, dark little trench. 33 00:10:03,937 --> 00:10:07,314 -Then you're a big noble fellow. -That's right. 34 00:10:08,775 --> 00:10:12,528 Here is William Potter with my newspaper. 35 00:10:12,946 --> 00:10:15,281 -Here you are, tosh. -Thanks. 36 00:10:17,409 --> 00:10:20,452 Would you care for one of Corporal Hartley's cigarettes? 37 00:10:21,997 --> 00:10:24,290 -Is it there? -Of course. 38 00:10:24,499 --> 00:10:26,125 Headlines. 39 00:10:26,626 --> 00:10:29,837 But I bet it isn't mentioned in the Times. 40 00:10:30,463 --> 00:10:34,842 "Bedouin tribes attack Turkish stronghold." 41 00:10:35,802 --> 00:10:39,471 I bet that no one in this headquarters even knows it happened. 42 00:10:39,723 --> 00:10:43,434 Or would care if it did. Allow me to ignite your cigarette. 43 00:10:45,979 --> 00:10:47,980 -Mr. Lawrence? -Yes. 44 00:10:48,189 --> 00:10:50,482 -Flimsy, sir. -Thank you. 45 00:10:57,490 --> 00:11:00,826 You'll do that once too often. It's only flesh and blood. 46 00:11:01,077 --> 00:11:03,829 Michael George Hartley, you're a philosopher. 47 00:11:04,039 --> 00:11:05,956 And you're balmy! 48 00:11:20,055 --> 00:11:23,015 -It damn well hurts! -Certainly, it hurts. 49 00:11:23,516 --> 00:11:25,100 What's the trick, then? 50 00:11:25,352 --> 00:11:29,396 The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts. 51 00:11:29,689 --> 00:11:32,608 By the way, if Captain Gibbon should enquire for me... 52 00:11:32,859 --> 00:11:36,195 ...tell him I've gone for a chat with the general. 53 00:11:37,906 --> 00:11:40,115 -He's balmy. -He's all right. 54 00:11:46,039 --> 00:11:47,539 Lawrence. 55 00:11:48,375 --> 00:11:49,541 Yes? 56 00:11:49,793 --> 00:11:51,585 You're supposed to be.... 57 00:11:52,003 --> 00:11:54,380 Do you usually wear your cap in the mess? 58 00:11:55,256 --> 00:11:56,298 Always. 59 00:11:56,549 --> 00:11:58,717 You should be on duty. Where are you going? 60 00:11:59,010 --> 00:12:01,387 Mustn't talk shop, Freddie, not in the mess. 61 00:12:01,596 --> 00:12:03,555 I'm going for a powwow with the general. 62 00:12:03,765 --> 00:12:07,267 I'm not asking as your superior, but as the secretary of this mess. 63 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:09,937 We don't want chaps in here who should be on duty. 64 00:12:10,230 --> 00:12:11,647 Where are you going? 65 00:12:14,567 --> 00:12:16,402 I must say, Lawrence! 66 00:12:16,611 --> 00:12:19,446 -Sorry. -You're a clown, Lawrence. 67 00:12:19,739 --> 00:12:23,075 Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers. 68 00:12:25,745 --> 00:12:26,745 Sorry. 69 00:12:27,580 --> 00:12:29,581 It's an intrigue, Dryden. 70 00:12:29,749 --> 00:12:33,043 I do not propose to let an overweening, crass lieutenant... 71 00:12:33,253 --> 00:12:36,755 ...thumb his nose at his commander and get away with it. 72 00:12:37,048 --> 00:12:40,259 It doesn't sound as though he'd be any great loss, sir. 73 00:12:40,677 --> 00:12:43,929 Don't try that, Dryden. There's a principle involved. 74 00:12:44,139 --> 00:12:45,639 There is, indeed. 75 00:12:45,932 --> 00:12:47,808 He's of no use here in Cairo. 76 00:12:48,101 --> 00:12:51,145 He might be in Arabia. He knows his stuff, sir. 77 00:12:51,438 --> 00:12:52,938 Knows the books, you mean. 78 00:12:53,106 --> 00:12:56,275 I've already sent out Colonel Brighton, who's a soldier. 79 00:12:56,443 --> 00:12:59,278 If Brighton thinks we should send some arms, we will. 80 00:13:01,489 --> 00:13:03,115 Well, what more do you want? 81 00:13:03,324 --> 00:13:06,452 That there would be no question of Lieutenant Lawrence... 82 00:13:06,661 --> 00:13:08,620 ...giving military advice. 83 00:13:08,830 --> 00:13:10,789 By God, I should hope not. 84 00:13:10,999 --> 00:13:15,544 It's just that the Arab Bureau would like its own man on the spot to.... 85 00:13:15,712 --> 00:13:16,795 To what? 86 00:13:17,088 --> 00:13:19,506 To make our own appraisal of the situation. 87 00:13:19,883 --> 00:13:23,802 I'll tell you, it's my considered opinion and that of my staff... 88 00:13:24,095 --> 00:13:26,847 ...that time spent on the Bedouin will be time wasted. 89 00:13:27,140 --> 00:13:29,475 They're a nation of sheep-stealers. 90 00:13:29,684 --> 00:13:32,603 They did attack Medina. 91 00:13:32,812 --> 00:13:35,147 And the Turks made mincemeat of them. 92 00:13:35,398 --> 00:13:36,732 We don't know that. 93 00:13:37,150 --> 00:13:41,487 We know that they didn't take it. A storm in a teacup, a sideshow. 94 00:13:42,155 --> 00:13:46,158 In my opinion, this whole theatre of operations is a sideshow. 95 00:13:46,618 --> 00:13:49,745 The real war's being fought against Germans, not Turks. 96 00:13:49,996 --> 00:13:52,831 Not here, but on the Western front in the trenches. 97 00:13:53,041 --> 00:13:55,501 Your Bedouin Army, or whatever it calls itself... 98 00:13:55,668 --> 00:13:58,337 ...would be a sideshow of a sideshow. 99 00:13:58,546 --> 00:14:01,173 Big things have small beginnings, sir. 100 00:14:02,550 --> 00:14:05,636 Does the Arab Bureau want a big thing in Arabia? 101 00:14:05,845 --> 00:14:10,349 Does the bureau think they'll sit down under us when this war is over? 102 00:14:10,558 --> 00:14:15,521 The bureau thinks the job of the moment, sir, is to win the war. 103 00:14:16,147 --> 00:14:18,398 Don't tell me my duty, Mr. Dryden. 104 00:14:19,275 --> 00:14:21,360 -Lawrence, sir. -Send him in. 105 00:14:23,279 --> 00:14:24,446 Good morning, sir. 106 00:14:24,697 --> 00:14:26,156 Salute. 107 00:14:28,284 --> 00:14:31,703 If you're insubordinate, I shall put you under arrest. 108 00:14:31,913 --> 00:14:33,705 -It's my manner. -Your what? 109 00:14:33,915 --> 00:14:36,792 My manner. It looks insubordinate, but it isn't. 110 00:14:37,210 --> 00:14:41,046 I can't make out whether you're bad-mannered or just half-witted. 111 00:14:41,381 --> 00:14:44,258 -I have the same problem, sir. -Shut up. 112 00:14:44,551 --> 00:14:47,886 The Arab Bureau thinks you would be of use to them in Arabia. 113 00:14:48,221 --> 00:14:49,805 Why, I can't imagine. 114 00:14:50,056 --> 00:14:52,474 You can't perform your present duties properly. 115 00:14:53,309 --> 00:14:57,604 "I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city." 116 00:14:57,814 --> 00:15:00,065 -What? -Themistocles, sir. 117 00:15:00,275 --> 00:15:03,902 -A Greek philosopher. -I know you've been well-educated. 118 00:15:04,112 --> 00:15:06,405 It says so in your dossier. 119 00:15:08,741 --> 00:15:11,743 You're the kind of creature I can't stand, Lawrence. 120 00:15:13,955 --> 00:15:16,206 But I suppose I could be wrong. 121 00:15:16,791 --> 00:15:19,585 All right, Dryden. You can have him for six weeks. 122 00:15:19,752 --> 00:15:23,255 Who knows? It might even make a man of him. Come in! 123 00:15:25,258 --> 00:15:26,592 Yes, what is it? 124 00:15:26,843 --> 00:15:29,595 The convoy will be in Port Said tomorrow night. 125 00:15:29,804 --> 00:15:31,805 -Is that certain? -Yes, sir. 126 00:15:32,932 --> 00:15:35,100 There doesn't seem to be any artillery. 127 00:15:35,310 --> 00:15:38,103 But there must be artillery! 128 00:15:40,857 --> 00:15:44,359 Sir, this is something of an expedition. 129 00:15:44,611 --> 00:15:48,780 He has to get to Yenbo, find a guide, find the Arabs and then get back. 130 00:15:49,032 --> 00:15:51,617 He can't do that in six weeks. 131 00:15:52,285 --> 00:15:54,953 -Two months, then. -Three. 132 00:15:55,455 --> 00:15:59,541 All right, three. Now, will you let me do some work, Mr. Dryden? 133 00:15:59,792 --> 00:16:01,460 Thank you, sir. 134 00:16:03,963 --> 00:16:07,299 I'd like to say, sir, that I am grateful for this. 135 00:16:07,508 --> 00:16:09,384 Shut up and get out. 136 00:16:15,475 --> 00:16:16,850 Sir? 137 00:16:22,482 --> 00:16:25,776 How can I fight a bloody war without bloody artillery? 138 00:16:26,778 --> 00:16:30,656 -How did you do it? -Might better ask why I bothered to. 139 00:16:30,907 --> 00:16:34,409 -Because I'm the man for the job. -I just wonder about that. 140 00:16:34,661 --> 00:16:37,537 Of course I am. What is the job, by the way? 141 00:16:37,830 --> 00:16:39,498 Find Prince Feisal. 142 00:16:39,791 --> 00:16:41,583 Good. And when I've found him? 143 00:16:43,544 --> 00:16:45,837 Find out what kind of a man he is. 144 00:16:46,089 --> 00:16:49,841 Find out what his intentions are. Not his immediate intentions. 145 00:16:50,009 --> 00:16:52,552 That is Colonel Brighton's business, not yours. 146 00:16:52,845 --> 00:16:57,099 I mean, his intentions in Arabia altogether. 147 00:17:00,353 --> 00:17:01,895 That's new. 148 00:17:03,439 --> 00:17:04,856 Where are they now? 149 00:17:05,024 --> 00:17:07,943 Anywhere within 300 miles of Medina. 150 00:17:08,194 --> 00:17:09,695 They're Hashemite Bedouins. 151 00:17:09,904 --> 00:17:13,573 They can cross 60 miles of desert in a day. 152 00:17:13,866 --> 00:17:15,826 Thanks. This is going to be fun. 153 00:17:16,536 --> 00:17:20,247 Lawrence, only two kinds of creature get fun in the desert: 154 00:17:20,540 --> 00:17:24,042 Bedouins and gods, and you're neither. Take it from me. 155 00:17:24,252 --> 00:17:27,546 For ordinary men, it's a burning fiery furnace. 156 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:31,550 No, Dryden. It's going to be fun. 157 00:17:35,346 --> 00:17:38,640 It is recognised that you have a funny sense of fun. 158 00:18:54,634 --> 00:18:56,426 Here you may drink. 159 00:19:00,139 --> 00:19:01,431 One cup. 160 00:19:09,190 --> 00:19:10,816 You do not drink? 161 00:19:11,442 --> 00:19:12,484 No. 162 00:19:13,945 --> 00:19:15,570 I'll drink when you do. 163 00:19:16,489 --> 00:19:17,572 I am Bedu. 164 00:21:17,985 --> 00:21:22,197 Truly, now, you are a British officer? 165 00:21:22,448 --> 00:21:23,823 Yes. 166 00:21:24,575 --> 00:21:26,117 From Cairo? 167 00:21:26,577 --> 00:21:27,994 Yes. 168 00:21:28,621 --> 00:21:31,790 -You did not ride from Cairo? -No. 169 00:21:32,083 --> 00:21:35,961 Thank heaven. It's 900 miles. I came by boat. 170 00:21:36,462 --> 00:21:38,004 And before? 171 00:21:38,631 --> 00:21:41,132 From Britain? 172 00:21:41,467 --> 00:21:42,801 Yes. 173 00:21:44,136 --> 00:21:45,512 Truly? 174 00:21:46,013 --> 00:21:47,472 From Oxfordshire. 175 00:21:49,475 --> 00:21:50,976 Is that a desert country? 176 00:21:51,978 --> 00:21:56,314 No. A fat country. Fat people. 177 00:21:57,900 --> 00:21:59,109 You are not fat? 178 00:21:59,819 --> 00:22:00,986 No. 179 00:22:02,488 --> 00:22:04,114 I'm different. 180 00:22:32,143 --> 00:22:33,518 Here... 181 00:22:34,270 --> 00:22:35,770 ...take it. 182 00:22:36,647 --> 00:22:40,066 First I take you to Lord Feisal, then you give it to me. 183 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:41,860 Take it now. 184 00:23:00,421 --> 00:23:02,047 Bedu food. 185 00:23:17,396 --> 00:23:18,730 Good. 186 00:23:18,981 --> 00:23:20,231 More? 187 00:24:09,115 --> 00:24:11,282 -Bedu. -Where? 188 00:24:32,263 --> 00:24:34,848 From here to Lord Feisal's camp is Harith country. 189 00:24:35,141 --> 00:24:36,307 Yes, I know. 190 00:24:36,517 --> 00:24:38,476 -I am not Harith. -No. 191 00:24:38,686 --> 00:24:41,312 Hazimi, of the Beni Salem. 192 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,019 Put the right foot in tight. Lock it with your left foot. 193 00:25:21,228 --> 00:25:22,854 When you are ready to go... 194 00:25:23,063 --> 00:25:26,191 ...hit her on the shoulder and say, "Hut-hut-hut." 195 00:25:43,834 --> 00:25:47,462 Today will be difficult, but tomorrow, good riding. 196 00:26:04,563 --> 00:26:08,066 I think we reach Masturah Well tomorrow. Yes. 197 00:26:08,234 --> 00:26:11,903 And from Masturah Well to Lord Feisal's camp, one day more. 198 00:26:12,112 --> 00:26:13,279 Now! 199 00:27:13,299 --> 00:27:14,632 Good? 200 00:27:14,842 --> 00:27:16,676 It's all right. 201 00:27:17,803 --> 00:27:20,013 This is a Harith well. 202 00:27:20,472 --> 00:27:22,974 The Harith are a dirty people. 203 00:28:44,556 --> 00:28:45,932 Turks? 204 00:29:12,418 --> 00:29:13,584 Bedu. 205 00:30:00,090 --> 00:30:01,841 Who is he? 206 00:30:55,521 --> 00:30:57,146 He is dead. 207 00:30:57,523 --> 00:30:59,023 Yes. 208 00:31:00,275 --> 00:31:01,359 Why? 209 00:31:04,238 --> 00:31:05,696 This is my well. 210 00:31:07,282 --> 00:31:08,908 I have drunk from it. 211 00:31:09,868 --> 00:31:11,661 You are welcome. 212 00:31:13,372 --> 00:31:14,705 He was my friend. 213 00:31:14,915 --> 00:31:17,750 -That? -Yes, that. 214 00:31:27,886 --> 00:31:31,097 -This pistol yours? -No, his. 215 00:31:47,781 --> 00:31:49,073 His? 216 00:31:49,700 --> 00:31:50,908 Mine. 217 00:31:51,577 --> 00:31:53,411 Then I will use it. 218 00:32:01,295 --> 00:32:03,588 Your friend... 219 00:32:05,591 --> 00:32:07,800 ...was a Hazimi of the Beni Salem. 220 00:32:08,093 --> 00:32:09,468 I know. 221 00:32:17,019 --> 00:32:18,311 I am Ali ibn el Kharish. 222 00:32:20,606 --> 00:32:21,939 I have heard of you. 223 00:32:23,650 --> 00:32:25,318 So... 224 00:32:27,654 --> 00:32:29,530 ...what was a Hazimi doing here? 225 00:32:29,781 --> 00:32:33,284 He was taking me to help Prince Feisal. 226 00:32:33,785 --> 00:32:37,246 -You've been sent from Cairo. -Yes. 227 00:32:37,748 --> 00:32:41,167 I have been in Cairo for my schooling. 228 00:32:42,127 --> 00:32:44,503 I can both read and write. 229 00:32:48,300 --> 00:32:52,261 My Lord Feisal already has an Englishman. 230 00:32:52,679 --> 00:32:54,305 What is your name? 231 00:32:55,265 --> 00:32:57,850 My name is for my friends. 232 00:33:03,315 --> 00:33:05,399 None of my friends is a murderer. 233 00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:09,362 You are angry, English. 234 00:33:18,163 --> 00:33:19,997 He was nothing. 235 00:33:20,290 --> 00:33:22,041 The well is everything. 236 00:33:23,085 --> 00:33:26,003 The Hazimi may not drink at our wells. 237 00:33:26,296 --> 00:33:27,880 He knew that. 238 00:33:30,217 --> 00:33:31,425 Salaam. 239 00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:34,679 Sherif Ali. 240 00:33:35,013 --> 00:33:38,099 So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe... 241 00:33:38,350 --> 00:33:40,851 ...so long will they be a little people... 242 00:33:41,103 --> 00:33:42,520 ...a silly people. 243 00:33:43,021 --> 00:33:47,191 Greedy, barbarous and cruel, as you are. 244 00:34:01,331 --> 00:34:02,373 Come. 245 00:34:03,417 --> 00:34:05,042 I will take you to Feisal. 246 00:34:05,210 --> 00:34:07,336 I do not want your company, sherif. 247 00:34:07,546 --> 00:34:10,881 Wadi Safra is another day from here. 248 00:34:11,216 --> 00:34:14,218 You will not find it, and you will die. 249 00:34:14,970 --> 00:34:18,389 I will find it with this. 250 00:34:26,982 --> 00:34:28,983 Good army compass. 251 00:34:29,568 --> 00:34:31,485 How if I take it? 252 00:34:31,903 --> 00:34:33,237 Then you would be a thief. 253 00:34:34,406 --> 00:34:35,740 Have you no fear, English? 254 00:34:36,658 --> 00:34:39,243 My fear is my concern. 255 00:34:39,745 --> 00:34:41,078 Truly. 256 00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:47,126 God be with you, English. 257 00:36:26,393 --> 00:36:28,185 Hey, you! 258 00:36:46,580 --> 00:36:49,707 -I've been waiting for you. -Did you know I was coming? 259 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,209 I knew someone was coming. Feisal told me. 260 00:36:52,502 --> 00:36:53,878 How did he know? 261 00:36:54,087 --> 00:36:57,006 Not much happens within 50 miles of Feisal that he doesn't know. 262 00:36:57,215 --> 00:36:59,258 I'll give him that. No escort? 263 00:36:59,509 --> 00:37:02,011 My guide was killed at the Masturah Well. 264 00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:05,097 -Turks? -No, an Arab. 265 00:37:05,390 --> 00:37:07,808 Bloody savages. 266 00:37:09,561 --> 00:37:12,646 -This is Wadi Safra, isn't it? -Yes, they're over there. 267 00:37:12,898 --> 00:37:15,441 Just a minute. What's your name and who sent you? 268 00:37:15,734 --> 00:37:19,737 Lawrence. I've been seconded to the Arab Bureau. 269 00:37:22,407 --> 00:37:24,742 What are you to do for the Arab Bureau? 270 00:37:24,910 --> 00:37:29,914 Well, it's rather vague, sir. I'm to appreciate the situation. 271 00:37:30,624 --> 00:37:34,543 Well, that won't be difficult. The situation's bloody awful. 272 00:37:34,753 --> 00:37:37,922 Their morale, if they ever had any, which I doubt... 273 00:37:38,131 --> 00:37:42,134 ...the Turks knocked out of them in front of Medina, with howitzers. 274 00:37:42,427 --> 00:37:44,762 They're fading away by dozens every night. 275 00:37:45,055 --> 00:37:46,639 What I want to say is this: 276 00:37:46,932 --> 00:37:49,558 Wherever you are and whoever you are with... 277 00:37:49,768 --> 00:37:51,602 ...you're a British officer. Here's an order. 278 00:37:51,811 --> 00:37:55,606 When we get into that camp, you're to keep your mouth shut. 279 00:37:55,774 --> 00:37:59,777 -Do you understand what I'm saying? -I understand what you're saying. 280 00:37:59,945 --> 00:38:02,863 You'll make your appreciation and get back to-- 281 00:38:05,450 --> 00:38:07,284 Oh, my God. 282 00:38:07,953 --> 00:38:09,787 Not again. 283 00:38:38,650 --> 00:38:41,819 I've told him! God knows I've told him. 284 00:38:42,028 --> 00:38:45,197 "Move South," I've said. "You're still in range." 285 00:38:47,158 --> 00:38:50,661 They simply will not understand what modern weapons do! 286 00:39:17,188 --> 00:39:20,566 Stand and fight. Stand and fight. 287 00:39:25,697 --> 00:39:27,156 Fire back at them. 288 00:40:39,145 --> 00:40:42,272 -Who are you? -Lieutenant Lawrence, sir. 289 00:40:42,524 --> 00:40:44,233 Seconded to the Arab Bureau. 290 00:40:44,442 --> 00:40:47,736 This is a bloody mess, sir. We'll have to move south. 291 00:40:47,946 --> 00:40:50,322 Yes, colonel, 50 miles south. 292 00:40:50,615 --> 00:40:53,450 You were right and I was wrong. 293 00:40:53,743 --> 00:40:55,786 We must take some thought for the wounded. 294 00:40:56,037 --> 00:40:59,289 -We can take care of them at Yenbo. -If they can get to Yenbo. 295 00:40:59,499 --> 00:41:01,041 They can hardly come with us. 296 00:41:01,292 --> 00:41:05,629 No. They must try to reach Yenbo. Lieutenant...? 297 00:41:06,464 --> 00:41:07,673 Lawrence. 298 00:41:07,966 --> 00:41:10,342 You understand, Lieutenant Lawrence... 299 00:41:10,552 --> 00:41:15,639 ...my people are unused to explosives and machines. 300 00:41:16,182 --> 00:41:20,144 First the guns, and now this. 301 00:42:14,741 --> 00:42:16,033 Cigarette? 302 00:42:16,242 --> 00:42:17,701 I'm sorry. 303 00:42:28,421 --> 00:42:30,380 Cigarette, Your Excellency? 304 00:42:31,257 --> 00:42:32,591 Umph off. 305 00:42:33,426 --> 00:42:36,261 Please, Your Excellency. Just one for two? 306 00:42:53,947 --> 00:42:55,113 Hold it, Jenkins! 307 00:42:59,452 --> 00:43:00,911 Jenkins! 308 00:43:10,296 --> 00:43:11,922 Lawrence? 309 00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:15,676 You have no servant. 310 00:43:15,927 --> 00:43:18,428 -I don't need a servant. -No? 311 00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:22,432 We can do everything. Light fires, cook food, wash clothes. 312 00:43:22,642 --> 00:43:24,643 -Yes, everything. -I don't doubt it. 313 00:43:24,936 --> 00:43:27,980 -It will be very nice for you. -I can't afford it. 314 00:43:51,129 --> 00:43:55,507 Recite, then, as much of the Koran as may be easy to you. 315 00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,469 God knoweth that there be some among you sick... 316 00:44:00,346 --> 00:44:05,726 ...while others travel through the Earth in quest for the bounties of God. 317 00:44:07,061 --> 00:44:11,315 Others do battle in his cause. 318 00:44:11,524 --> 00:44:15,861 Recite, therefore, as much as may be easy. 319 00:44:16,487 --> 00:44:19,323 And observe the prayers. 320 00:44:20,450 --> 00:44:25,954 This will be best and richest in the recompense. 321 00:44:27,081 --> 00:44:31,001 Seek ye the forgiveness of God. 322 00:44:31,753 --> 00:44:36,840 Verily, God is forgiving, merciful-- 323 00:44:37,050 --> 00:44:38,508 Greetings, Ali. 324 00:44:38,676 --> 00:44:40,510 -My lord. -Sherif Ali. 325 00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:44,973 Lieutenant Lawrence, you have met Sherif Ali, l think. 326 00:44:45,850 --> 00:44:47,684 Yes, my lord. 327 00:44:50,188 --> 00:44:52,481 And now, Selim, "The Brightness." 328 00:44:52,690 --> 00:44:55,025 "By the noonday brightness... 329 00:44:55,234 --> 00:44:57,361 ...and by the night when it darkeneth... 330 00:44:57,612 --> 00:45:00,030 ...thy Lord hath not forsaken thee... 331 00:45:00,281 --> 00:45:02,699 ...neither hath He been displeased. 332 00:45:02,992 --> 00:45:07,245 And surely the future shall be better for thee than the past." 333 00:45:07,538 --> 00:45:11,041 "And in the end shall your Lord be bounteous to thee... 334 00:45:11,209 --> 00:45:13,543 ...and thou be satisfied." 335 00:45:15,505 --> 00:45:16,880 So? 336 00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,050 Yes, colonel. 337 00:45:20,426 --> 00:45:24,137 -I want a decision, sir. -You want me to fall back on Yenbo. 338 00:45:24,389 --> 00:45:27,057 Well, you're not doing much good here, sir. 339 00:45:27,266 --> 00:45:31,228 I'm sorry to rub it in, sir, but we can't supply you here. 340 00:45:31,437 --> 00:45:33,397 You could supply us through Aqaba! 341 00:45:33,815 --> 00:45:35,399 Aqaba! 342 00:45:36,234 --> 00:45:38,902 If you can get ahold of Aqaba, we can supply you. 343 00:45:39,070 --> 00:45:41,071 -But you can't! -You could. 344 00:45:41,572 --> 00:45:44,157 You mean, the navy? 345 00:45:45,076 --> 00:45:48,412 The Turks have 1 2-inch guns at Aqaba, sir. 346 00:45:48,621 --> 00:45:50,622 Can you imagine what that means? 347 00:45:50,915 --> 00:45:52,582 Yes, I can imagine. 348 00:45:52,792 --> 00:45:57,045 Put that out of your mind, sir. The navy's got other things to do. 349 00:45:57,255 --> 00:45:59,756 Oh, yes. Protecting the Suez Canal. 350 00:46:00,550 --> 00:46:04,177 The one essential sector of this front is and must be the canal. 351 00:46:04,429 --> 00:46:06,263 You can see that, sir, surely. 352 00:46:06,431 --> 00:46:09,433 I see that the canal is an essential British interest. 353 00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:11,643 It is of little consequence to us. 354 00:46:12,145 --> 00:46:14,187 I must ask you not to speak like that. 355 00:46:14,439 --> 00:46:17,107 British and Arab interests are one and the same. 356 00:46:18,443 --> 00:46:20,110 Possibly. 357 00:46:21,779 --> 00:46:24,072 Upon my word, sir, you're ungrateful. 358 00:46:24,282 --> 00:46:26,950 Fall back on Yenbo and we will give you equipment. 359 00:46:27,118 --> 00:46:29,327 Give you arms, advice, training, everything. 360 00:46:29,620 --> 00:46:32,456 -Guns? -A modern rifle for every man. 361 00:46:32,707 --> 00:46:35,625 No. Guns. Artillery. 362 00:46:35,835 --> 00:46:39,129 Guns like the Turkish guns at Medina. 363 00:46:39,297 --> 00:46:42,382 Yes, give us guns and keep the training. 364 00:46:42,633 --> 00:46:46,303 Your men need training far more than guns, sir. 365 00:46:46,596 --> 00:46:48,221 English will teach Bedu to fight? 366 00:46:48,473 --> 00:46:52,601 We will teach them, Sherif Ali, to fight a modern mechanised army. 367 00:46:54,228 --> 00:46:58,356 Yes, lieutenant? What do you think about Yenbo? 368 00:47:02,195 --> 00:47:05,030 I think it is far from Damascus. 369 00:47:05,323 --> 00:47:08,658 We'll have you in Damascus, sir. Never fear. 370 00:47:08,910 --> 00:47:11,870 Have you been in Damascus, Mr. Lawrence? 371 00:47:12,497 --> 00:47:13,872 Yes, my lord. 372 00:47:14,916 --> 00:47:16,541 It is beautiful, is it not? 373 00:47:16,834 --> 00:47:18,502 -Very . -That will do, Lawrence. 374 00:47:18,753 --> 00:47:22,839 Dreaming won't get you to Damascus, but discipline will. 375 00:47:23,132 --> 00:47:28,178 Look, Great Britain is a small country, much smaller than yours. 376 00:47:28,387 --> 00:47:30,680 Small population compared with some. 377 00:47:30,890 --> 00:47:34,059 It's small, but it's great. And why? 378 00:47:34,352 --> 00:47:37,187 -Because it has guns. -Because it has discipline. 379 00:47:37,396 --> 00:47:39,689 Because it has a navy, because of this... 380 00:47:39,857 --> 00:47:41,566 ...the English go where they please... 381 00:47:41,859 --> 00:47:44,402 ...and strike where they please. This makes them great. 382 00:47:44,695 --> 00:47:46,780 -Right. -Mr. Lawrence, that will do! 383 00:47:47,031 --> 00:47:49,282 Lawrence is not your military adviser. 384 00:47:49,534 --> 00:47:51,660 But I would like to hear his opinion. 385 00:47:52,078 --> 00:47:54,287 Damn it! Who do you take your orders from? 386 00:47:54,539 --> 00:47:57,958 From Lord Feisal, in Feisal's tent. 387 00:47:58,209 --> 00:48:03,463 Old fool! Why turn from him to him? They are master and man. 388 00:48:04,590 --> 00:48:08,260 My lord, I think.... 389 00:48:09,220 --> 00:48:11,388 I think your book is right. 390 00:48:11,722 --> 00:48:16,101 The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped. 391 00:48:16,394 --> 00:48:18,395 On this ocean, the Bedu go where they please... 392 00:48:18,563 --> 00:48:20,063 ...and strike where they please. 393 00:48:20,314 --> 00:48:22,566 This is the way the Bedu has always fought. 394 00:48:22,817 --> 00:48:25,735 You're famed through the world for fighting this way. 395 00:48:25,987 --> 00:48:28,113 And this is the way you should fight now. 396 00:48:28,406 --> 00:48:29,948 I don't know. 397 00:48:30,241 --> 00:48:32,450 I'm sorry, sir, but you're wrong. 398 00:48:33,077 --> 00:48:37,414 Fall back on Yenbo, the Arab Rising becomes one unit in the British army. 399 00:48:37,623 --> 00:48:39,791 -What is this to you? -You're a traitor. 400 00:48:40,084 --> 00:48:42,085 No, colonel. 401 00:48:42,336 --> 00:48:45,589 He is a young man, and young men are passionate. 402 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:48,925 They must say their say. 403 00:48:50,094 --> 00:48:55,098 But wiser people must decide. I know you are right. 404 00:48:55,266 --> 00:48:57,809 Very well. When shall we move? The sooner the better. 405 00:48:58,102 --> 00:49:00,604 You'll lose another 50 men tonight. 406 00:49:02,648 --> 00:49:04,608 You tread heavily... 407 00:49:05,651 --> 00:49:08,320 ...but you speak the truth. 408 00:49:09,947 --> 00:49:13,450 I will give you my answer tomorrow. And now... 409 00:49:13,826 --> 00:49:15,619 ...it is late. 410 00:49:31,344 --> 00:49:33,845 Colonel Brighton means to put my men... 411 00:49:34,013 --> 00:49:36,890 ...under European officers, does he not? 412 00:49:37,141 --> 00:49:39,017 In effect, my lord, yes. 413 00:49:39,310 --> 00:49:41,311 And l must do it... 414 00:49:41,896 --> 00:49:45,649 ...because the Turks have European guns. 415 00:49:45,900 --> 00:49:48,568 But I fear to do it... 416 00:49:49,487 --> 00:49:51,696 ...upon my soul I do. 417 00:49:53,658 --> 00:49:57,827 The English have a great hunger for desolate places. 418 00:49:58,037 --> 00:50:01,206 I fear they hunger for Arabia. 419 00:50:01,499 --> 00:50:03,375 Then you must deny it to them. 420 00:50:03,668 --> 00:50:07,212 You are an Englishman. Are you not loyal to England? 421 00:50:07,838 --> 00:50:10,799 To England and to other things. 422 00:50:11,050 --> 00:50:13,677 To England and Arabia both? 423 00:50:13,886 --> 00:50:15,679 And is that possible? 424 00:50:22,436 --> 00:50:26,690 I think you are another of these desert-loving English. 425 00:50:26,899 --> 00:50:29,025 Doughty, Stanhope... 426 00:50:29,610 --> 00:50:31,945 ...Gordon of Khartoum. 427 00:50:32,196 --> 00:50:34,447 No Arab loves the desert. 428 00:50:34,699 --> 00:50:39,703 We love water and green trees. There is nothing in the desert. 429 00:50:40,746 --> 00:50:43,206 And no man needs nothing. 430 00:50:46,335 --> 00:50:49,921 Or is it that you think we are something you can play with... 431 00:50:50,214 --> 00:50:53,758 ...because we are a little people, a silly people... 432 00:50:54,051 --> 00:50:58,221 ...greedy, barbarous and cruel? 433 00:50:58,556 --> 00:51:01,850 Or do you know, lieutenant, in the Arab city of Cordoba... 434 00:51:02,059 --> 00:51:04,561 ...were two miles of lighting in the streets... 435 00:51:04,770 --> 00:51:06,479 ...when London was a village. 436 00:51:06,731 --> 00:51:09,566 Yes, you were great. 437 00:51:09,775 --> 00:51:11,901 Nine centuries ago. 438 00:51:12,153 --> 00:51:14,362 Time to be great again, my lord. 439 00:51:14,572 --> 00:51:17,866 Which is why my father made this war upon the Turks. 440 00:51:18,075 --> 00:51:21,870 My father, Mr. Lawrence, not the English. 441 00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,373 But my father is old... 442 00:51:26,375 --> 00:51:28,084 ...and I... 443 00:51:29,754 --> 00:51:33,465 ...I long for the vanished gardens of Cordoba. 444 00:51:35,301 --> 00:51:38,261 However, before the gardens must come the fighting. 445 00:51:39,597 --> 00:51:43,475 To be great again, it seems that we need the English... 446 00:51:43,768 --> 00:51:44,768 ...or.... 447 00:51:45,019 --> 00:51:46,436 Or? 448 00:51:46,937 --> 00:51:50,607 What no man can provide, Mr. Lawrence. 449 00:51:50,816 --> 00:51:53,276 We need a miracle. 450 00:54:58,587 --> 00:55:00,187 Aqaba. 451 00:55:05,344 --> 00:55:06,970 From the land. 452 00:55:07,972 --> 00:55:09,722 You are mad. 453 00:55:10,140 --> 00:55:14,519 To come to Aqaba by land we should have to cross the Nefud Desert. 454 00:55:14,728 --> 00:55:15,979 That's right. 455 00:55:16,313 --> 00:55:18,481 The Nefud cannot be crossed. 456 00:55:18,691 --> 00:55:20,608 I'll cross it if you will. 457 00:55:20,818 --> 00:55:24,988 You? It takes more than a compass, Englishman. 458 00:55:25,197 --> 00:55:27,991 The Nefud is the worst place God created. 459 00:55:28,242 --> 00:55:32,245 I can't answer for the place. Only for myself. 460 00:55:32,663 --> 00:55:34,163 Fifty men? 461 00:55:34,415 --> 00:55:37,000 Fifty? Against Aqaba? 462 00:55:37,209 --> 00:55:39,627 If 50 men came out of the Nefud... 463 00:55:39,837 --> 00:55:42,880 ...they would be 50 men other men might join. 464 00:55:43,674 --> 00:55:46,009 The Howeitat are there, I hear. 465 00:55:46,343 --> 00:55:49,345 The Howeitat are brigands. They'll sell themselves to anyone. 466 00:55:49,638 --> 00:55:51,848 -Good fighters, though. -Good-- 467 00:55:52,850 --> 00:55:56,227 Yes. There are guns at Aqaba. 468 00:55:56,520 --> 00:56:00,648 They face the sea, Sherif Ali, and cannot be turned around. 469 00:56:00,858 --> 00:56:04,569 From the landward side, there are no guns at Aqaba. 470 00:56:04,862 --> 00:56:09,866 With good reason. It cannot be approached from the landward side. 471 00:56:10,075 --> 00:56:12,702 Certainly the Turks don't dream of it. 472 00:56:16,165 --> 00:56:18,166 Aqaba's over there. 473 00:56:20,711 --> 00:56:22,920 It's only a matter of going. 474 00:56:24,048 --> 00:56:26,382 You are mad. 475 00:56:33,557 --> 00:56:36,059 And where are you going, lieutenant? 476 00:56:37,394 --> 00:56:39,437 With 50 of my men. 477 00:56:41,065 --> 00:56:42,273 To work your miracle. 478 00:56:42,608 --> 00:56:46,903 Blasphemy is a bad beginning for such a journey. 479 00:56:47,613 --> 00:56:50,239 -Who told you? -Ali did. 480 00:56:50,407 --> 00:56:52,116 Why not you? 481 00:56:53,744 --> 00:56:56,746 You are falling back from Yenbo, sir? 482 00:56:56,997 --> 00:56:59,248 Yes, I must. 483 00:56:59,500 --> 00:57:02,585 But I will spare these to you. 484 00:57:04,463 --> 00:57:07,590 Did Ali break confidence to tell me? 485 00:57:08,217 --> 00:57:12,136 Sherif Ali owes you his allegiance, my lord. 486 00:57:13,097 --> 00:57:15,598 Yet you did not tell Colonel Brighton. 487 00:57:15,808 --> 00:57:16,849 No. 488 00:57:28,737 --> 00:57:30,738 Since you do know... 489 00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:34,784 ...we can claim to arrive in the name of Feisal of Mecca. 490 00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:38,454 Yes, Lieutenant Lawrence, you may claim it. 491 00:57:39,289 --> 00:57:42,375 But in whose name do you ride? 492 01:00:10,941 --> 01:00:13,609 Sherif, I caught them. They have tracked us. 493 01:00:13,902 --> 01:00:16,112 They were here. I caught them. 494 01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:19,198 Why are you here? Boy! 495 01:00:19,449 --> 01:00:21,325 To serve Lord Lawrence, sherif. 496 01:00:21,618 --> 01:00:24,203 This is true, Lawrence. They do wish it. 497 01:00:24,454 --> 01:00:26,289 You have been tracking us. 498 01:00:26,957 --> 01:00:29,208 -You were told to stay. -No, sherif. 499 01:00:29,459 --> 01:00:31,502 Our camel strayed. We followed her. 500 01:00:31,795 --> 01:00:34,672 She led us here to be Lord Lawrence's servants. 501 01:00:34,965 --> 01:00:37,550 -It is the will of Allah. -Blasphemy. 502 01:00:37,801 --> 01:00:39,051 Don't do that. 503 01:00:39,511 --> 01:00:44,223 No, Lawrence, these are not servants. These are outcasts, parent-less. 504 01:00:44,850 --> 01:00:47,560 Be warned. They are not suitable. 505 01:00:47,811 --> 01:00:51,564 They sound very suitable. You can ride with the baggage. 506 01:00:53,191 --> 01:00:56,652 These are not servants. These are worshippers. 507 01:01:00,657 --> 01:01:03,492 One shilling, every week? 508 01:01:03,702 --> 01:01:05,328 That is fair. 509 01:01:05,996 --> 01:01:07,330 -Each? -No. 510 01:01:07,539 --> 01:01:09,165 -That is too much. -All right. 511 01:01:17,758 --> 01:01:21,969 They will be lucky for you. Allah favours the compassionate. 512 01:01:35,859 --> 01:01:37,610 There is the railway. 513 01:01:38,487 --> 01:01:41,405 And that is the desert. 514 01:01:42,866 --> 01:01:46,577 From here until the other side, no water but what we carry. 515 01:01:46,787 --> 01:01:50,081 For the camels, no water at all. 516 01:01:50,707 --> 01:01:52,875 If the camels die... 517 01:01:54,211 --> 01:01:55,544 ...we die. 518 01:01:56,505 --> 01:01:59,298 And in 20 days they will start to die. 519 01:02:04,805 --> 01:02:08,057 There's no time to waste, then, is there? 520 01:04:40,168 --> 01:04:41,877 I was thinking. 521 01:04:42,087 --> 01:04:43,796 You were drifting. 522 01:04:45,757 --> 01:04:49,426 Yes. It will not happen again. 523 01:04:49,719 --> 01:04:53,389 Be warned, you were drifting. 524 01:04:54,057 --> 01:04:56,100 It will not happen again. 525 01:05:58,246 --> 01:06:00,122 That water is wasted. 526 01:06:05,545 --> 01:06:07,838 From now on, we must travel by night... 527 01:06:08,131 --> 01:06:11,008 ...and rest while it is too hot to travel. 528 01:06:11,301 --> 01:06:13,677 A few hours each day. 529 01:06:15,513 --> 01:06:17,473 Why don't we start now? 530 01:06:17,641 --> 01:06:20,351 No. We will rest now. 531 01:06:22,187 --> 01:06:23,312 Three hours. 532 01:06:23,563 --> 01:06:24,980 Fine. 533 01:06:25,565 --> 01:06:27,024 I'll wake you. 534 01:08:45,538 --> 01:08:47,122 Do we rest here? 535 01:08:47,332 --> 01:08:50,501 There is no rest now short of water. 536 01:08:50,794 --> 01:08:52,795 The other side of that. 537 01:08:53,963 --> 01:08:56,131 And how much of that is there? 538 01:08:56,466 --> 01:08:58,008 I'm not sure. 539 01:08:59,135 --> 01:09:03,472 But however much, it must be crossed before tomorrow's sun gets up. 540 01:09:04,557 --> 01:09:06,809 This is the sun's anvil. 541 01:10:39,402 --> 01:10:40,652 Have we done it? 542 01:10:40,904 --> 01:10:44,031 No, but we're off the anvil. 543 01:10:44,908 --> 01:10:46,450 Thank God for that anyway. 544 01:10:46,659 --> 01:10:48,577 Yes, thank him. 545 01:10:48,828 --> 01:10:52,414 Lawrence, I do not think you know how you have tempted him. 546 01:10:52,665 --> 01:10:53,957 I know. 547 01:10:57,295 --> 01:10:58,795 We've done it. 548 01:10:59,088 --> 01:11:00,631 God willing. 549 01:11:02,759 --> 01:11:04,801 When do we reach the wells? 550 01:11:05,178 --> 01:11:08,347 God willing, midday. 551 01:11:08,848 --> 01:11:12,267 -Then we've done it. -Thank him, Lawrence. Thank him. 552 01:11:15,939 --> 01:11:17,564 Gasim's. 553 01:11:21,444 --> 01:11:23,153 What's happened to him? 554 01:11:23,947 --> 01:11:25,447 God knows. 555 01:11:27,116 --> 01:11:28,992 Why don't you stop? 556 01:11:29,452 --> 01:11:32,955 For what? He will be dead by midday. 557 01:11:38,294 --> 01:11:40,087 We must go back. 558 01:11:40,296 --> 01:11:43,173 What for, to die with Gasim? 559 01:11:44,467 --> 01:11:46,718 In one hour comes the sun. 560 01:11:48,221 --> 01:11:52,891 In God's name, understand! We cannot go back! 561 01:11:53,142 --> 01:11:54,476 I can. 562 01:11:55,311 --> 01:11:56,979 Take the boys. 563 01:12:02,819 --> 01:12:05,320 If you go back, you kill yourself, is all. 564 01:12:05,488 --> 01:12:07,823 Gasim you have killed already. 565 01:12:08,324 --> 01:12:09,658 Get out of my way. 566 01:12:09,993 --> 01:12:13,829 Gasim's time is come, Lawrence. It is written. 567 01:12:14,038 --> 01:12:15,372 Nothing is written! 568 01:12:18,501 --> 01:12:19,918 Go back, then! 569 01:12:20,336 --> 01:12:23,672 What did you bring us here for with your blasphemous conceit? 570 01:12:24,674 --> 01:12:26,550 English blasphemer! 571 01:12:27,677 --> 01:12:29,261 Aqaba? 572 01:12:29,762 --> 01:12:31,555 Was it Aqaba? 573 01:12:32,390 --> 01:12:35,142 You will not be at Aqaba, English! 574 01:12:37,186 --> 01:12:38,770 Go back, blasphemer... 575 01:12:39,355 --> 01:12:41,356 ...but you will not be at Aqaba. 576 01:12:41,733 --> 01:12:43,442 I shall be at Aqaba. 577 01:12:43,693 --> 01:12:45,736 That is written. 578 01:12:46,362 --> 01:12:47,654 In here. 579 01:12:57,540 --> 01:13:01,209 English! 580 01:19:34,270 --> 01:19:37,188 Lawrence! Daud! 581 01:21:45,609 --> 01:21:47,735 Nothing is written. 582 01:22:19,935 --> 01:22:21,519 Al Lawrence. 583 01:22:25,941 --> 01:22:27,358 Farraj. 584 01:22:28,485 --> 01:22:29,652 Wash. 585 01:23:06,857 --> 01:23:08,566 Al Lawrence. 586 01:23:09,026 --> 01:23:13,655 Truly, for some men nothing is written unless they write it. 587 01:23:18,327 --> 01:23:21,329 Not Al Lawrence. Just Lawrence. 588 01:23:21,538 --> 01:23:24,290 -Al Lawrence is better. -True. 589 01:23:26,293 --> 01:23:28,878 Your father too, just Mr. Lawrence? 590 01:23:35,219 --> 01:23:38,012 My father is Sir Thomas Chapman. 591 01:23:38,222 --> 01:23:41,015 -Is that a lord? -A kind of lord. 592 01:23:41,350 --> 01:23:44,102 Then when he dies, you too will be a lord. 593 01:23:44,353 --> 01:23:45,561 No. 594 01:23:47,731 --> 01:23:49,524 You have an elder brother. 595 01:23:49,692 --> 01:23:50,900 No. 596 01:23:51,068 --> 01:23:56,197 But then, I do not understand this. Your father's name is Chapman. 597 01:23:57,741 --> 01:23:59,701 He didn't marry my mother. 598 01:24:01,203 --> 01:24:02,870 I see. 599 01:24:03,372 --> 01:24:04,747 I'm sorry. 600 01:24:06,709 --> 01:24:10,628 It seems to me that you are free to choose your own name, then. 601 01:24:13,215 --> 01:24:15,717 Yes, I suppose I am. 602 01:24:17,052 --> 01:24:18,761 Al Lawrence is best. 603 01:24:21,724 --> 01:24:25,852 All right, l'll settle for Al Lawrence. 604 01:24:55,507 --> 01:24:58,593 They are the robes of a sherif of the Beni Wejh. 605 01:25:11,273 --> 01:25:12,940 Very fine. 606 01:25:14,943 --> 01:25:19,030 -Great honour. -The honour is to us. Salaam, sherif. 607 01:25:19,281 --> 01:25:21,699 -Is it permitted? -Surely. 608 01:25:26,914 --> 01:25:31,959 He for whom nothing is written may write himself a clan. 609 01:25:39,968 --> 01:25:43,221 They are good for riding. Try. 610 01:27:35,334 --> 01:27:37,043 What are you doing, Englishman? 611 01:27:38,420 --> 01:27:39,962 As you see. 612 01:27:41,256 --> 01:27:42,298 Are you alone? 613 01:27:42,758 --> 01:27:44,342 Almost. 614 01:27:52,976 --> 01:27:55,436 Are you with those dogs drinking at my well? 615 01:27:55,687 --> 01:27:57,104 Yours? 616 01:28:00,692 --> 01:28:02,485 I am Auda Abu Tayi. 617 01:28:04,279 --> 01:28:07,114 I've heard of another man of that name. 618 01:28:07,991 --> 01:28:09,700 Other? What other? 619 01:28:10,077 --> 01:28:14,288 The Auda I'd heard of wouldn't need to summon help to look after his wells. 620 01:28:17,793 --> 01:28:19,961 He must be a great hero. 621 01:28:20,170 --> 01:28:21,879 He is. 622 01:28:22,130 --> 01:28:25,299 He wouldn't refuse water to men coming out of Nefud Desert. 623 01:28:25,634 --> 01:28:27,718 Now, would he not? 624 01:28:30,305 --> 01:28:33,140 No, that must be some other man. 625 01:28:35,644 --> 01:28:37,520 Here is my help. 626 01:29:03,213 --> 01:29:05,881 Son, what fashion is this? 627 01:29:07,217 --> 01:29:10,886 -Harith, Father. -What manner of Harith? 628 01:29:11,513 --> 01:29:12,847 A Beni Wejh sherif. 629 01:29:13,849 --> 01:29:15,349 And is he Harith? 630 01:29:15,559 --> 01:29:17,768 No, Father, English. 631 01:29:21,023 --> 01:29:22,356 Son... 632 01:29:23,191 --> 01:29:25,276 ...they are stealing our water. 633 01:29:26,194 --> 01:29:28,029 Tell them we are coming. 634 01:29:28,780 --> 01:29:29,864 Tell them. 635 01:30:39,810 --> 01:30:41,477 -Empty that! -Do not! 636 01:30:43,772 --> 01:30:45,940 It is Auda of the Howeitat who speaks. 637 01:30:46,733 --> 01:30:48,776 It is Ali of the Harith who answers. 638 01:31:04,960 --> 01:31:06,252 Harith. 639 01:31:07,129 --> 01:31:08,295 Ali. 640 01:31:09,005 --> 01:31:11,257 Does your father still steal? 641 01:31:13,343 --> 01:31:14,552 No. 642 01:31:16,179 --> 01:31:19,140 Does Auda take me for one of his own bastards? 643 01:31:20,350 --> 01:31:23,519 No. There is no resemblance. 644 01:31:24,396 --> 01:31:26,814 Alas, you resemble your father. 645 01:31:27,274 --> 01:31:30,151 -Auda flatters me. -You are easily flattered. 646 01:31:30,694 --> 01:31:33,154 I knew your father well. 647 01:31:33,572 --> 01:31:35,406 Did you know your own? 648 01:31:38,785 --> 01:31:43,497 We are 50, you are two. How if we shot you down? 649 01:31:43,999 --> 01:31:47,084 Why, then you have a blood feud with the Howeitat. 650 01:31:48,378 --> 01:31:51,422 -Do you desire it? -Not the generals in Cairo... 651 01:31:51,923 --> 01:31:55,009 ...nor the sultan himself desire that. 652 01:31:58,180 --> 01:31:59,346 Call off your men. 653 01:32:04,895 --> 01:32:07,521 This honours the unworthy. 654 01:32:07,856 --> 01:32:09,940 I've only just begun to teach him. 655 01:32:10,192 --> 01:32:14,445 And what are you teaching him today? Howeitat hospitality? 656 01:32:14,696 --> 01:32:16,697 Be not clever with me, English. 657 01:32:18,408 --> 01:32:21,702 -Who is he? -A friend of Prince Feisal's. 658 01:32:31,213 --> 01:32:34,381 -So you desire my hospitality? -Yes. 659 01:32:34,591 --> 01:32:36,091 Is he your tongue? 660 01:32:36,843 --> 01:32:38,594 We do desire it. 661 01:32:41,765 --> 01:32:44,892 Then it is given, if you will take it. 662 01:32:46,394 --> 01:32:48,229 I'm at my summer camp, a poor place. 663 01:32:48,480 --> 01:32:53,234 Well, to me it seems a poor place. Some men find it marvellous. 664 01:32:53,985 --> 01:32:58,405 Tomorrow, maybe l will allow the Turks to buy you, friends of Feisal. 665 01:32:59,658 --> 01:33:00,908 But... 666 01:33:01,409 --> 01:33:02,743 ...dine with me. 667 01:33:04,120 --> 01:33:05,579 Dine with Auda, English. 668 01:33:06,414 --> 01:33:08,916 Dine with the Howeitat, Harith. 669 01:33:09,668 --> 01:33:14,421 It is my pleasure that you dine with me in Wadi Rumm! 670 01:35:54,082 --> 01:35:57,751 This thing you work against Aqaba... 671 01:35:58,128 --> 01:36:00,546 ...what profit do you hope from it? 672 01:36:00,755 --> 01:36:03,340 We work it for Feisal of Mecca. 673 01:36:03,591 --> 01:36:05,676 The Harith do not work for profit. 674 01:36:06,845 --> 01:36:10,597 Well, if it is in a man to be a servant, Sherif Ali... 675 01:36:11,099 --> 01:36:13,600 ...he could find worse masters than Feisal. 676 01:36:13,935 --> 01:36:16,770 But I.... I cannot serve. 677 01:36:17,647 --> 01:36:20,691 You permit the Turks to stay in Aqaba. 678 01:36:20,942 --> 01:36:22,943 Yes, it is my pleasure. 679 01:36:27,949 --> 01:36:31,452 We do not work this thing for Feisal. 680 01:36:31,953 --> 01:36:32,953 No? 681 01:36:33,997 --> 01:36:36,665 -For the English, then? -For the Arabs. 682 01:36:37,292 --> 01:36:38,709 The Arabs? 683 01:36:39,502 --> 01:36:43,797 The Howeitat, Ageyil, Ruala, Beni Sahkr, these I know. 684 01:36:44,007 --> 01:36:46,008 I have even heard of the Harith. 685 01:36:46,676 --> 01:36:48,177 But the Arabs? 686 01:36:48,636 --> 01:36:50,804 What tribe is that? 687 01:36:52,474 --> 01:36:56,643 They're a tribe of slaves. They serve the Turks. 688 01:36:56,853 --> 01:36:58,896 Well, they are nothing to me. 689 01:36:59,147 --> 01:37:01,023 My tribe is the Howeitat. 690 01:37:01,232 --> 01:37:03,609 Who work only for profit. 691 01:37:03,818 --> 01:37:05,486 Who work at Auda's pleasure. 692 01:37:05,653 --> 01:37:08,322 And Auda's pleasure is to serve the Turks. 693 01:37:08,490 --> 01:37:09,656 Serve? 694 01:37:10,116 --> 01:37:11,158 I serve? 695 01:37:11,367 --> 01:37:14,036 It is the servant who takes money. 696 01:37:19,334 --> 01:37:21,043 I am Auda Abu Tayi. 697 01:37:21,336 --> 01:37:23,170 -Does Auda serve? -No! 698 01:37:23,338 --> 01:37:26,507 -Does Auda Abu Tayi serve? -No! 699 01:37:31,179 --> 01:37:35,265 I carry 23 great wounds, all got in battle. 700 01:37:35,725 --> 01:37:39,228 75 men have I killed with my own hands, in battle. 701 01:37:39,437 --> 01:37:43,649 I scatter, I burn my enemies tents. I take away their flocks and herds. 702 01:37:43,858 --> 01:37:47,945 The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! 703 01:37:48,196 --> 01:37:52,366 Because I am a river to my people. 704 01:38:01,042 --> 01:38:02,209 Is that service? 705 01:38:02,752 --> 01:38:04,044 No. 706 01:38:10,760 --> 01:38:14,263 And yet now it seems Auda has grown old. 707 01:38:14,472 --> 01:38:17,224 And lost his taste for fighting. 708 01:38:17,392 --> 01:38:21,562 It is well you say it in my tent, thou old tulip. 709 01:38:21,771 --> 01:38:25,566 Yet this is a tulip that the Turks could not buy. 710 01:38:25,733 --> 01:38:27,568 Why should they wish to? 711 01:38:29,737 --> 01:38:30,779 Now.... 712 01:38:31,406 --> 01:38:35,576 I will tell you what they pay me, and you will tell me if this is... 713 01:38:35,785 --> 01:38:38,078 ...a servant's wages. 714 01:38:38,246 --> 01:38:42,249 They pay me, month by month... 715 01:38:42,458 --> 01:38:46,587 ...1 00 golden guineas. 716 01:38:47,755 --> 01:38:50,924 1 50, Auda. 717 01:38:51,134 --> 01:38:54,094 -Who told you that? -I have long ears. 718 01:38:54,262 --> 01:38:56,597 And a long tongue between them. 719 01:38:56,764 --> 01:39:00,142 1 00, 1 50, what matters? It's a trifle. 720 01:39:00,351 --> 01:39:04,146 A trifle which they take from a great box they have. 721 01:39:04,355 --> 01:39:06,356 In Aqaba. 722 01:39:07,609 --> 01:39:10,319 -In Aqaba? -Where else? 723 01:39:11,237 --> 01:39:14,114 You trouble me like women. 724 01:39:14,449 --> 01:39:17,618 Friends, we've been foolish. Auda will not come to Aqaba. 725 01:39:18,286 --> 01:39:19,453 -For money? -No. 726 01:39:19,787 --> 01:39:20,954 -For Feisal? -No! 727 01:39:21,164 --> 01:39:24,249 Nor to drive away the Turks. 728 01:39:25,001 --> 01:39:26,877 He will come... 729 01:39:27,795 --> 01:39:30,130 ...because it is his pleasure. 730 01:39:32,133 --> 01:39:35,802 Thy mother mated with a scorpion. 731 01:39:37,180 --> 01:39:40,641 Make God your agent! 732 01:39:41,976 --> 01:39:46,021 Aqaba! 733 01:40:01,704 --> 01:40:04,304 God be with you. 734 01:43:22,405 --> 01:43:23,864 Yes. 735 01:43:24,198 --> 01:43:25,240 Aqaba. 736 01:43:26,868 --> 01:43:29,536 Tomorrow we will go and get it. 737 01:43:30,746 --> 01:43:33,707 -Do you think we shall? -Yes. 738 01:43:33,875 --> 01:43:36,626 If you are right about the guns. 739 01:44:04,572 --> 01:44:07,282 He killed. He dies. 740 01:44:08,034 --> 01:44:10,243 This is the end of Aqaba. 741 01:44:12,914 --> 01:44:14,748 One of our men murdered Auda's man. 742 01:44:14,916 --> 01:44:15,916 Why? 743 01:44:16,125 --> 01:44:19,169 Theft? Blood feud? It makes no matter why. 744 01:44:19,629 --> 01:44:20,837 Ali! 745 01:44:21,255 --> 01:44:23,089 It is an ancient wound. 746 01:44:23,299 --> 01:44:26,259 I didn't come here to watch a tribal bloodbath. 747 01:44:30,765 --> 01:44:32,933 It is the law, Lawrence. 748 01:44:33,100 --> 01:44:35,435 The law says the man must die. 749 01:44:36,354 --> 01:44:39,439 If he dies, will that content the Howeitat? 750 01:44:40,441 --> 01:44:41,691 Yes. 751 01:44:45,154 --> 01:44:46,780 Sherif Ali! 752 01:44:46,948 --> 01:44:49,950 If none of Lord Auda's men harms any of yours... 753 01:44:50,326 --> 01:44:53,578 -...will that content the Harith? -Yes. 754 01:44:59,710 --> 01:45:02,337 Then I will execute the law. 755 01:45:03,339 --> 01:45:05,465 I have no tribe. 756 01:45:06,717 --> 01:45:09,010 And no one is offended. 757 01:45:21,482 --> 01:45:22,482 Gasim. 758 01:45:26,988 --> 01:45:28,405 Did you do it? 759 01:45:55,349 --> 01:45:57,017 Well, Lawrence.... 760 01:46:04,525 --> 01:46:05,900 What ails the Englishman? 761 01:46:06,152 --> 01:46:09,571 That that he killed was the man he brought out of the Nefud. 762 01:46:09,780 --> 01:46:11,781 It was written, then. 763 01:46:12,658 --> 01:46:14,659 Better to have left him. 764 01:46:18,289 --> 01:46:21,583 It was execution, Lawrence. No shame in that. 765 01:46:22,043 --> 01:46:24,294 Besides, it was necessary. 766 01:46:25,379 --> 01:46:27,589 You gave life and you took it. 767 01:46:28,174 --> 01:46:29,716 The writing is still yours. 768 01:47:06,921 --> 01:47:09,005 Auda Abu Tayi! 769 01:50:25,035 --> 01:50:27,287 The miracle is accomplished. 770 01:50:28,289 --> 01:50:29,914 Garlands for the conqueror. 771 01:50:51,020 --> 01:50:54,188 Tribute for the prince. Flowers for the man. 772 01:50:54,982 --> 01:50:56,691 I'm none of those things, Ali. 773 01:50:56,942 --> 01:50:59,569 -What, then? -Don't know. 774 01:51:00,654 --> 01:51:01,946 Thanks. 775 01:51:03,490 --> 01:51:05,658 My God, I love this country. 776 01:51:07,328 --> 01:51:08,328 What! 777 01:51:09,371 --> 01:51:11,247 No gold in Aqaba! 778 01:51:12,583 --> 01:51:15,001 Auda, I found it! 779 01:51:24,219 --> 01:51:25,845 That's a pity. 780 01:51:29,391 --> 01:51:31,976 Ali, get a message down the coast to Yenbo. 781 01:51:32,186 --> 01:51:34,687 Tell Feisal to find boats, any boats... 782 01:51:34,855 --> 01:51:38,024 ...and bring the Arab army here to Aqaba, quickly. 783 01:51:38,233 --> 01:51:39,400 And you? 784 01:51:40,194 --> 01:51:42,737 I'm going to tell the generals... 785 01:51:43,197 --> 01:51:45,031 ...in Cairo. 786 01:51:45,240 --> 01:51:47,575 Yes, cross Sinai. 787 01:51:47,868 --> 01:51:48,868 Come on! 788 01:51:49,203 --> 01:51:50,536 Sinai? 789 01:51:51,038 --> 01:51:52,372 Yes. 790 01:51:52,873 --> 01:51:56,542 -With these? -They'll be all right with me. 791 01:52:01,799 --> 01:52:05,927 Look, Ali. If any of your Bedouin arrived in Cairo and said: 792 01:52:06,220 --> 01:52:09,055 "We've taken Aqaba," the generals would laugh. 793 01:52:09,807 --> 01:52:11,099 I see. 794 01:52:11,725 --> 01:52:14,894 In Cairo you will put off these funny clothes. 795 01:52:15,062 --> 01:52:19,273 You'll wear trousers and tell stories of our quaintness and barbarity... 796 01:52:19,900 --> 01:52:22,151 ...and then they will believe you. 797 01:52:22,736 --> 01:52:24,904 You're an ignorant man. 798 01:52:44,925 --> 01:52:46,342 Paper. 799 01:52:47,261 --> 01:52:49,095 Paper! 800 01:52:51,807 --> 01:52:54,475 There is no gold in Aqaba. 801 01:52:55,602 --> 01:52:57,437 No gold. 802 01:52:58,814 --> 01:53:00,773 No great box! 803 01:53:04,945 --> 01:53:07,280 Did Auda come to Aqaba for gold? 804 01:53:07,823 --> 01:53:10,116 For my pleasure, as you said. 805 01:53:11,368 --> 01:53:13,870 But gold is honourable... 806 01:53:14,955 --> 01:53:17,623 ...and Lawrence promised gold. 807 01:53:18,709 --> 01:53:19,876 Lawrence lied. 808 01:53:21,837 --> 01:53:23,296 See, Auda. 809 01:53:25,966 --> 01:53:28,092 "The Crown of England... 810 01:53:29,178 --> 01:53:31,637 ...promises to pay... 811 01:53:32,639 --> 01:53:37,018 ...5000 golden guineas... 812 01:53:37,519 --> 01:53:42,231 ...to Auda Abu Tayi." 813 01:53:43,358 --> 01:53:47,653 Signed in His Majesty's absence... 814 01:53:47,905 --> 01:53:49,322 ...by... 815 01:53:51,033 --> 01:53:52,241 ...me. 816 01:53:53,327 --> 01:53:55,495 In 1 0 days... 817 01:53:56,205 --> 01:53:58,331 ...I'll be back with the gold. 818 01:53:59,416 --> 01:54:04,170 With gold, with guns, with everything. 819 01:54:05,255 --> 01:54:06,839 Ten days. 820 01:54:08,133 --> 01:54:09,759 You'll cross Sinai? 821 01:54:10,052 --> 01:54:11,427 Why not? 822 01:54:12,179 --> 01:54:13,888 Moses did. 823 01:54:16,517 --> 01:54:18,726 And you will take the children? 824 01:54:20,020 --> 01:54:21,395 Moses did. 825 01:54:21,647 --> 01:54:23,356 Moses was a prophet... 826 01:54:23,857 --> 01:54:26,442 ...and beloved of God. 827 01:54:31,740 --> 01:54:35,868 He said there was gold here. He lied. 828 01:54:37,162 --> 01:54:40,039 He is not perfect. 829 01:54:50,092 --> 01:54:52,552 Lord, can we not rest? 830 01:54:52,719 --> 01:54:55,888 I told you, no rest till they know that I have Aqaba. 831 01:54:58,100 --> 01:54:59,809 Have you two slept in beds? 832 01:55:00,060 --> 01:55:01,269 Farraj? 833 01:55:01,895 --> 01:55:03,187 Daud? 834 01:55:04,398 --> 01:55:06,065 With sheets? 835 01:55:07,985 --> 01:55:11,445 Tomorrow the finest sheets in the finest room and hotel in Cairo. 836 01:55:11,697 --> 01:55:12,989 I promise. 837 01:55:13,240 --> 01:55:15,908 Then it shall be so, lord. 838 01:55:37,264 --> 01:55:38,598 Look! 839 01:55:45,355 --> 01:55:46,939 Pillar of fire. 840 01:55:50,152 --> 01:55:52,153 No, lord. Dust. 841 01:56:41,787 --> 01:56:43,287 My compass. 842 01:56:45,082 --> 01:56:46,374 No matter. 843 01:56:46,833 --> 01:56:50,544 If we ride west, we must strike the canal. 844 01:56:51,672 --> 01:56:53,047 Due west. 845 01:57:13,694 --> 01:57:15,194 Come on! 846 01:57:48,603 --> 01:57:51,230 Lawrence! 847 01:58:03,952 --> 01:58:05,244 Farraj! 848 01:58:15,505 --> 01:58:18,424 Farraj, don't! Don't! 849 01:58:19,468 --> 01:58:20,885 Don't! 850 01:59:56,356 --> 01:59:57,523 Why do you walk? 851 02:00:00,277 --> 02:00:02,277 But why, lord? 852 02:00:15,041 --> 02:00:18,502 There is room for both. It serves no purpose. 853 02:00:44,237 --> 02:00:46,739 Lawrence, look! 854 02:01:55,642 --> 02:01:57,685 It's all right, Farraj. 855 02:01:57,894 --> 02:01:59,478 It's all right. 856 02:03:11,384 --> 02:03:13,384 Who are you? 857 02:03:53,468 --> 02:03:56,095 -Daud! -We're here, sir. 858 02:04:14,280 --> 02:04:15,823 You taking him in there? 859 02:04:16,950 --> 02:04:18,325 Yes. 860 02:04:38,847 --> 02:04:40,264 Here! 861 02:04:42,183 --> 02:04:44,518 Here. You! 862 02:04:46,062 --> 02:04:49,565 And where the hell do you think you're going to, Mustapha? 863 02:04:50,316 --> 02:04:51,817 We are thirsty. 864 02:04:53,653 --> 02:04:56,071 -Mr. Lawrence, is it? -Yes. 865 02:04:56,531 --> 02:04:59,658 -Are you going to the officers' bar? -Yes. 866 02:05:00,869 --> 02:05:03,162 You can't take him in there, sir. 867 02:05:06,833 --> 02:05:09,376 What do you think you look like? 868 02:05:28,062 --> 02:05:29,688 No, no. You must go. 869 02:05:29,898 --> 02:05:31,523 No, no. Go, effendi, go! 870 02:05:33,359 --> 02:05:36,111 Get out! You must get out! Get out! 871 02:05:37,739 --> 02:05:42,034 We want two large glasses of lemonade. 872 02:05:42,243 --> 02:05:46,079 -This is a bar for British officers. -We are not particular. 873 02:05:51,419 --> 02:05:55,339 -Are you off your head? -No. Oddly enough I'm not. 874 02:05:55,590 --> 02:05:59,218 -Just clear out of here, will you? -Get that boy out of here. 875 02:05:59,552 --> 02:06:02,221 Corporal, we'll have this one out anyway. 876 02:06:02,889 --> 02:06:05,432 -Get that wog out of here. -Clear off. 877 02:06:07,560 --> 02:06:09,269 What's going on? 878 02:06:12,232 --> 02:06:16,151 -It's Lawrence, sir. -Lemonade with ice. 879 02:06:17,487 --> 02:06:19,071 Explain yourself. 880 02:06:19,781 --> 02:06:21,573 We've taken Aqaba. 881 02:06:22,075 --> 02:06:24,743 -Taken Aqaba? Who has? -We have. 882 02:06:24,994 --> 02:06:29,498 Our side in this war has. The wogs have. 883 02:06:30,250 --> 02:06:31,583 We have. 884 02:06:33,378 --> 02:06:35,254 He likes your lemonade. 885 02:06:35,588 --> 02:06:37,506 You mean the Turks have gone? 886 02:06:37,799 --> 02:06:40,759 No, they're still there but they've no boots. 887 02:06:41,261 --> 02:06:45,389 Prisoners, sir. We took them prisoners. The entire garrison. 888 02:06:45,890 --> 02:06:48,100 That's not true. We killed some. 889 02:06:48,309 --> 02:06:52,271 Too many, really. I'll manage it better next time. 890 02:06:53,606 --> 02:06:56,483 There's been a lot of killing one way or another. 891 02:06:58,611 --> 02:07:02,114 Cross my heart and hope to die, it's all perfectly true. 892 02:07:02,323 --> 02:07:05,117 -It isn't possible. -Yes, it is. 893 02:07:05,451 --> 02:07:07,286 I did it. 894 02:07:12,500 --> 02:07:14,167 You'd better talk to Allenby. 895 02:07:14,460 --> 02:07:17,212 -General Allenby? -He's in command. Murray's gone. 896 02:07:17,463 --> 02:07:19,715 That's a step in the right direction. 897 02:07:20,466 --> 02:07:23,218 First I want a room. With a bed, with sheets. 898 02:07:23,511 --> 02:07:26,221 -Yes, of course. -It's for him. 899 02:07:27,974 --> 02:07:30,851 Right. You want a bed yourself, don't you? 900 02:07:31,144 --> 02:07:33,145 See Allenby first, though. 901 02:07:33,813 --> 02:07:35,439 Will he see me? 902 02:07:36,190 --> 02:07:37,691 I think so. 903 02:07:38,443 --> 02:07:39,985 Do that, then. 904 02:07:44,866 --> 02:07:47,492 -I'd better shave. -Yes, you had. 905 02:07:47,702 --> 02:07:50,329 You'd better get into some trousers too. 906 02:08:01,507 --> 02:08:03,342 "Undisciplined. 907 02:08:05,219 --> 02:08:07,179 Unpunctual. 908 02:08:08,348 --> 02:08:10,265 Untidy. 909 02:08:12,101 --> 02:08:14,227 Several languages. 910 02:08:15,521 --> 02:08:17,522 Knowledge of music... 911 02:08:18,399 --> 02:08:20,192 ...literature. 912 02:08:21,235 --> 02:08:23,195 Knowledge of.... 913 02:08:24,572 --> 02:08:26,365 Knowledge of...." 914 02:08:29,577 --> 02:08:32,537 You're an interesting man, there's no doubt about it. 915 02:08:33,206 --> 02:08:36,291 -Who told you to take Aqaba? -Nobody. 916 02:08:36,584 --> 02:08:39,252 -Sir. -Sir. 917 02:08:39,545 --> 02:08:40,879 Then why did you? 918 02:08:41,047 --> 02:08:43,548 -Aqaba's important. -Why is it important? 919 02:08:43,758 --> 02:08:46,301 -It's the Turkish route to the canal. -Not anymore. 920 02:08:46,552 --> 02:08:50,722 -They're coming through Beersheba. -I know, but we've gone to Gaza. 921 02:08:50,890 --> 02:08:55,519 -So? -So that left Aqaba behind your right. 922 02:08:56,062 --> 02:08:57,104 True. 923 02:08:57,313 --> 02:09:01,942 And it will be further behind your right when you go for Jerusalem. 924 02:09:02,819 --> 02:09:05,237 Am I going for Jerusalem? 925 02:09:05,571 --> 02:09:06,738 Yes. 926 02:09:09,075 --> 02:09:10,534 Very well. 927 02:09:10,743 --> 02:09:13,036 Aqaba behind my right. 928 02:09:13,246 --> 02:09:16,123 It threatened El' Arîsh and Gaza. 929 02:09:17,583 --> 02:09:18,834 Anything else? 930 02:09:19,085 --> 02:09:20,293 Yes. 931 02:09:20,586 --> 02:09:23,046 Aqaba's linked with Medina. 932 02:09:23,589 --> 02:09:26,591 Do you think we should shift them out of Medina now? 933 02:09:26,843 --> 02:09:30,429 No. I think you should leave them there. 934 02:09:30,596 --> 02:09:32,597 You acted without orders, you know. 935 02:09:33,307 --> 02:09:37,561 Shouldn't officers use their initiative at all times? 936 02:09:37,770 --> 02:09:40,105 Not really. It's awfully dangerous. 937 02:09:40,314 --> 02:09:42,649 Yes, I know. 938 02:09:42,942 --> 02:09:44,484 Already? 939 02:09:44,777 --> 02:09:45,944 Yes. 940 02:09:47,697 --> 02:09:50,323 I'm promoting you major. 941 02:09:51,325 --> 02:09:53,618 I don't think that's a very good idea. 942 02:09:53,786 --> 02:09:56,872 I didn't ask you. I want you to go back... 943 02:09:57,123 --> 02:10:00,792 ...and carry on the good work. 944 02:10:01,294 --> 02:10:04,129 No. Thank you, sir. 945 02:10:04,630 --> 02:10:08,592 -Why not? -Well, I, it's.... 946 02:10:08,801 --> 02:10:10,135 Let me see now.... 947 02:10:11,846 --> 02:10:15,599 I killed two people. I mean, two Arabs. 948 02:10:15,808 --> 02:10:18,018 One was a boy. 949 02:10:18,227 --> 02:10:19,686 That was... 950 02:10:21,314 --> 02:10:23,148 ...yesterday. 951 02:10:23,357 --> 02:10:25,400 I led him into a quicksand. 952 02:10:25,651 --> 02:10:27,319 The other was a man. 953 02:10:27,653 --> 02:10:29,613 That was... 954 02:10:29,822 --> 02:10:32,240 ...before Aqaba, anyway. 955 02:10:32,909 --> 02:10:35,619 I had to execute him with my pistol. 956 02:10:36,120 --> 02:10:39,164 There was something about it I didn't like. 957 02:10:39,415 --> 02:10:42,542 -Well, naturally. -No. Something else. 958 02:10:44,837 --> 02:10:47,172 That's all right. Let it be a warning. 959 02:10:47,381 --> 02:10:49,508 No. Something else. 960 02:10:51,135 --> 02:10:52,719 What, then? 961 02:10:53,638 --> 02:10:56,014 I enjoyed it. 962 02:11:03,523 --> 02:11:07,025 Rubbish. Rubbish and nerves. You're tired. 963 02:11:08,778 --> 02:11:12,405 What do you mean coming dressed like that? Amateur theatricals? 964 02:11:12,657 --> 02:11:14,366 Yes. Entirely. 965 02:11:14,575 --> 02:11:17,702 Let me see that hat thing or whatever it is. 966 02:11:18,037 --> 02:11:20,038 Fascinating gear they wear. 967 02:11:20,289 --> 02:11:22,541 How would I look in this, Harry? 968 02:11:22,750 --> 02:11:26,253 -Damn ridiculous, sir. -Here, you keep it. 969 02:11:27,171 --> 02:11:31,258 What I'm trying to say is I don't think I'm fit for it. 970 02:11:31,467 --> 02:11:34,386 Really? What do you think, Dryden? 971 02:11:35,388 --> 02:11:39,975 Before he did it, sir, I'd have said it couldn't be done. 972 02:11:40,309 --> 02:11:43,311 -Brighton? -I know what he thinks. 973 02:11:44,480 --> 02:11:47,816 I think you should recommend a decoration, sir. 974 02:11:48,192 --> 02:11:51,069 I don't think it matters what his motives were. 975 02:11:51,279 --> 02:11:54,406 It was a brilliant bit of soldiering. 976 02:11:55,950 --> 02:11:57,826 -Mr. Perkins! -Sir! 977 02:11:58,077 --> 02:12:00,704 Let's have a drink, gentlemen. 978 02:12:04,750 --> 02:12:08,128 -You've heard about this, Mr. Perkins? -Yes, sir. 979 02:12:08,337 --> 02:12:12,632 -What do you think about it? -Bloody marvellous, sir. Well done. 980 02:12:12,842 --> 02:12:15,927 -Thank you, Mr. Perkins. -Sir! 981 02:12:21,601 --> 02:12:23,226 Come on, then. 982 02:12:26,814 --> 02:12:28,607 You're a clever man, sir. 983 02:12:28,941 --> 02:12:32,527 No, but I know a good thing when I see one. 984 02:12:32,778 --> 02:12:35,488 That's fair, surely? 985 02:12:56,010 --> 02:13:01,139 If I need a breakthrough to Jerusalem, I must concentrate, not dissipate. 986 02:13:01,349 --> 02:13:03,642 -Bravo. -You know better? 987 02:13:23,204 --> 02:13:26,039 I fight like Clausewitz, then you fight like Saxe. 988 02:13:26,290 --> 02:13:28,667 We should do very well indeed, shouldn't we? 989 02:14:05,246 --> 02:14:07,706 Easy, gentlemen, please. 990 02:14:08,874 --> 02:14:11,084 -Give us something to drink. -Of course, sir. 991 02:14:11,585 --> 02:14:15,213 I'm here at the invitation of Major Lawrence. 992 02:14:15,965 --> 02:14:17,132 Tracy. 993 02:14:19,051 --> 02:14:20,885 Shall we go outside? 994 02:14:32,064 --> 02:14:35,358 So you hold bound the Turkish desert army? 995 02:14:35,568 --> 02:14:36,609 Yes. 996 02:14:36,861 --> 02:14:39,154 With 1 000 Arabs? 997 02:14:40,239 --> 02:14:43,408 1 000 Arabs means 1 000 knives. 998 02:14:43,576 --> 02:14:45,577 Delivered anywhere, day or night. 999 02:14:46,120 --> 02:14:47,787 It means 1 000 camels. 1000 02:14:48,080 --> 02:14:52,375 That means 1 000 packs of high explosives and 1 000 crack rifles. 1001 02:14:52,918 --> 02:14:56,671 We can cross Arabia while Johnny Turk is still turning round. 1002 02:14:57,256 --> 02:14:59,174 I'll smash his railways. 1003 02:14:59,425 --> 02:15:01,926 While he mends, I'll smash them somewhere else. 1004 02:15:02,178 --> 02:15:04,971 In 1 3 weeks I can have Arabia in chaos. 1005 02:15:05,264 --> 02:15:07,599 You are going back, then? 1006 02:15:10,436 --> 02:15:11,686 Yes. 1007 02:15:12,104 --> 02:15:14,439 Of course I'm going back. 1008 02:15:18,778 --> 02:15:21,196 Well, if we can see it, so can the Turk. 1009 02:15:21,447 --> 02:15:25,700 If he finds he's using four divisions to fend off a handful of bandits... 1010 02:15:25,951 --> 02:15:27,118 ...he'll withdraw. 1011 02:15:27,286 --> 02:15:30,038 He daren't withdraw. Arabia's part of his empire. 1012 02:15:30,289 --> 02:15:32,791 If he gets out now, he'll never get back again. 1013 02:15:33,042 --> 02:15:35,543 -I wonder who will. -No one will. 1014 02:15:36,170 --> 02:15:38,421 Arabia's for the Arabs now. 1015 02:15:44,428 --> 02:15:46,721 That's what I've told them anyway. 1016 02:15:47,181 --> 02:15:49,015 That's what they think. 1017 02:15:49,475 --> 02:15:52,727 -That's why they're fighting. -Oh, surely. 1018 02:15:55,689 --> 02:15:57,982 They've only one suspicion. 1019 02:15:58,442 --> 02:16:02,821 That we'll let them drive the Turks out and then move in ourselves. 1020 02:16:03,030 --> 02:16:07,534 I've told them that that's false, that we have no ambitions in Arabia. 1021 02:16:07,743 --> 02:16:08,827 Have we? 1022 02:16:09,328 --> 02:16:11,496 I'm not a politician, thank God. 1023 02:16:11,705 --> 02:16:14,833 Have we any ambition in Arabia, Dryden? 1024 02:16:15,835 --> 02:16:18,086 Difficult question, sir. 1025 02:16:20,089 --> 02:16:23,883 I want to know, sir, if I can tell them in your name... 1026 02:16:24,093 --> 02:16:27,512 ...that we've no ambitions in Arabia. 1027 02:16:28,556 --> 02:16:30,056 Certainly. 1028 02:16:47,575 --> 02:16:51,035 2000 small arms, not enough. I need five. 1029 02:16:51,245 --> 02:16:52,412 Right. 1030 02:16:52,705 --> 02:16:56,040 Money. It'll have to be sovereigns. They don't like paper. 1031 02:16:57,042 --> 02:17:00,420 -Instructors for the Lewis guns. -Right. 1032 02:17:00,629 --> 02:17:02,213 More money. 1033 02:17:02,548 --> 02:17:05,717 -How much more? -25,000 now. A lot more later. 1034 02:17:05,926 --> 02:17:08,636 -Dryden? -It can be done, sir. 1035 02:17:08,888 --> 02:17:11,723 A couple of armoured cars. 1036 02:17:11,891 --> 02:17:13,266 Right. 1037 02:17:14,018 --> 02:17:15,560 Field artillery. 1038 02:17:17,730 --> 02:17:19,105 Right. 1039 02:17:22,067 --> 02:17:24,319 I'll give you every blessed thing l can... 1040 02:17:24,570 --> 02:17:27,447 ...because I know you'll use it. Congratulations. 1041 02:17:27,656 --> 02:17:30,408 Thank you for your hospitality, gentlemen. 1042 02:18:06,070 --> 02:18:07,946 Congratulations! 1043 02:18:18,207 --> 02:18:21,292 Are you really going to give them artillery, sir? 1044 02:18:21,502 --> 02:18:23,336 I was wondering that, sir. 1045 02:18:23,587 --> 02:18:25,797 Might be difficult to get it back. 1046 02:18:26,006 --> 02:18:29,592 Give them artillery and you've made them independent. 1047 02:18:29,802 --> 02:18:31,719 Then I can't give it to them, can I? 1048 02:18:31,971 --> 02:18:33,888 -For you to say. -No, it's not. 1049 02:18:34,139 --> 02:18:36,891 I've got orders to obey, thank God. 1050 02:18:37,142 --> 02:18:39,102 Not like that poor devil. 1051 02:18:39,603 --> 02:18:41,145 He's riding the whirlwind. 1052 02:18:41,355 --> 02:18:43,606 Let's hope we're not. 1053 02:24:07,347 --> 02:24:10,599 Excuse me, friend. Who do these bags belong to? 1054 02:24:11,143 --> 02:24:12,351 To Prince Feisal. 1055 02:24:12,602 --> 02:24:15,354 -You're not Prince Feisal? -No. 1056 02:24:15,647 --> 02:24:16,981 You know him though? 1057 02:24:17,149 --> 02:24:20,651 He is my master. I am his servant. 1058 02:24:23,822 --> 02:24:25,156 Can you read? 1059 02:24:33,832 --> 02:24:38,336 Chicago Courieris my paper, but my work is syndicated in America. 1060 02:24:38,587 --> 02:24:42,131 I understood so from your letter, Mr. Bentley. 1061 02:24:56,313 --> 02:24:57,480 Now.... 1062 02:24:58,690 --> 02:25:02,651 -Where can I find Major Lawrence? -Is that what you have come for? 1063 02:25:02,861 --> 02:25:04,987 Not altogether, sir, no. 1064 02:25:05,238 --> 02:25:09,617 Well, Mr. Bentley, you will find Major Lawrence with my army. 1065 02:25:09,826 --> 02:25:12,912 That's what I meant, sir. Where can I find your army? 1066 02:25:13,205 --> 02:25:14,372 I don't know. 1067 02:25:15,040 --> 02:25:17,708 -Last week they were near El Ghira. -Ghira? 1068 02:25:17,918 --> 02:25:21,754 Yes, I fear you have a long journey. Can you ride a camel? 1069 02:25:22,714 --> 02:25:25,341 -I've never tried. -Take a mule. 1070 02:25:25,884 --> 02:25:28,010 Avoid Mellaha, the Turks are there. 1071 02:25:28,387 --> 02:25:31,013 In Mellaha now? They move fast. 1072 02:25:31,223 --> 02:25:32,515 They do. 1073 02:25:32,724 --> 02:25:35,893 But not so fast as we do, you will find. 1074 02:25:36,228 --> 02:25:37,728 Myself... 1075 02:25:38,355 --> 02:25:40,231 ...I am going to Cairo. 1076 02:25:40,440 --> 02:25:42,441 -As you know. -Yes. 1077 02:25:42,692 --> 02:25:45,194 There's work for me there of a different kind. 1078 02:25:45,737 --> 02:25:46,946 Yes. 1079 02:25:50,534 --> 02:25:52,910 I understand you've been given no artillery. 1080 02:25:53,370 --> 02:25:55,913 -That is so. -You're handicapped? 1081 02:25:56,081 --> 02:25:58,165 It restricts us to small things. 1082 02:25:58,375 --> 02:25:59,667 It's intended to. 1083 02:26:02,379 --> 02:26:03,963 Do you know General Allenby? 1084 02:26:04,965 --> 02:26:08,426 Watch out for Allenby. He's a slim customer. 1085 02:26:08,760 --> 02:26:11,429 -Excuse me? -A clever man. 1086 02:26:11,721 --> 02:26:14,598 Slim customer. It's very good. 1087 02:26:14,891 --> 02:26:19,437 I'll certainly watch out for him. You're being very sympathetic. 1088 02:26:19,729 --> 02:26:23,232 Your Highness, we Americans were once a colonial people. 1089 02:26:23,442 --> 02:26:25,818 We naturally feel sympathetic to any people... 1090 02:26:26,069 --> 02:26:28,279 ...who struggle for their freedom. 1091 02:26:28,447 --> 02:26:30,698 Very gratifying. 1092 02:26:33,452 --> 02:26:37,788 Also, my interests are the same as yours. You want your story told. 1093 02:26:37,956 --> 02:26:40,291 I badly want a story to tell. 1094 02:26:40,500 --> 02:26:44,295 Ah, now you are talking turkey, are you not? 1095 02:26:44,963 --> 02:26:47,798 I will give you a guide and a letter. 1096 02:26:48,008 --> 02:26:49,967 And before l leave here... 1097 02:26:50,260 --> 02:26:52,595 ...which must be presently... 1098 02:26:52,804 --> 02:26:56,307 ...I will have some facts and figures put on paper for you. 1099 02:26:58,101 --> 02:27:01,353 You know that we are destroying the Turkish railways. 1100 02:27:01,605 --> 02:27:02,730 I do, sir. 1101 02:27:02,939 --> 02:27:05,858 Major Lawrence is in charge of all this, is he? 1102 02:27:06,109 --> 02:27:08,611 My army is made up of tribes. 1103 02:27:08,820 --> 02:27:11,822 The tribes are led by the tribal leaders. 1104 02:27:11,990 --> 02:27:15,159 Your people do think very highly of Major Lawrence? 1105 02:27:15,368 --> 02:27:18,454 Oh, yes. And the rightly. 1106 02:27:19,039 --> 02:27:22,374 In this country, Mr. Bentley... 1107 02:27:23,251 --> 02:27:26,670 ...the man who gives victory in battle is prized... 1108 02:27:26,838 --> 02:27:29,507 ...beyond every other man. 1109 02:27:30,175 --> 02:27:33,344 One figure I can give you from my head... 1110 02:27:33,512 --> 02:27:37,181 ...because it never leaves my head. 1111 02:27:37,682 --> 02:27:41,769 Since starting this campaign four months ago, we have lost... 1112 02:27:42,687 --> 02:27:45,147 ...37 wounded... 1113 02:27:47,692 --> 02:27:51,028 ...1 56 dead. 1114 02:27:52,572 --> 02:27:57,368 You remark the disproportion between our dead and wounded. 1115 02:27:57,577 --> 02:27:58,869 Yeah. 1116 02:27:59,204 --> 02:28:00,579 Four times as many. 1117 02:28:00,830 --> 02:28:05,543 That's because those too wounded to bring away, we ourselves kill. 1118 02:28:05,794 --> 02:28:08,295 We leave no wounded for the Turks. 1119 02:28:08,713 --> 02:28:12,383 -You mean...? -We leave no wounded for the Turks. 1120 02:28:12,884 --> 02:28:16,303 In their eyes, we are not soldiers but rebels. 1121 02:28:16,513 --> 02:28:21,016 Rebels, wounded or whole, are not protected by the Geneva Code... 1122 02:28:21,226 --> 02:28:23,102 ...and are treated harshly. 1123 02:28:23,812 --> 02:28:24,895 How harshly? 1124 02:28:25,188 --> 02:28:28,065 More harshly than I hope you can imagine. 1125 02:28:28,858 --> 02:28:29,900 I see. 1126 02:28:30,068 --> 02:28:33,320 Our own prisoners are taken care of until the British... 1127 02:28:33,530 --> 02:28:37,366 ...can relieve us of them, according to the Code. 1128 02:28:37,576 --> 02:28:41,620 -I should like you to notice that. -Yes, sir. 1129 02:28:42,622 --> 02:28:45,249 Is that the influence of Major Lawrence? 1130 02:28:45,709 --> 02:28:47,084 Why should you suppose? 1131 02:28:47,335 --> 02:28:49,753 It's just that I heard in Cairo that... 1132 02:28:49,963 --> 02:28:52,423 ...Major Lawrence has a horror of bloodshed. 1133 02:28:52,632 --> 02:28:54,341 That is exactly so. 1134 02:28:54,551 --> 02:28:58,053 With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. 1135 02:28:58,388 --> 02:29:01,265 With me, it is merely good manners. 1136 02:29:01,433 --> 02:29:05,603 You may judge which motive is the more reliable. 1137 02:29:06,229 --> 02:29:09,607 -And now, perhaps.... -Oh, sure, sure. 1138 02:29:13,737 --> 02:29:15,404 Thank you, sir. 1139 02:29:15,614 --> 02:29:17,364 Can you manage the letter--? 1140 02:29:17,616 --> 02:29:20,451 I'll do everything I have said... 1141 02:29:20,660 --> 02:29:24,246 ...if you will tell me truly the nature of your interest... 1142 02:29:24,456 --> 02:29:26,874 ...in my people and Major Lawrence. 1143 02:29:28,793 --> 02:29:31,920 It's very simple, sir. I'm looking for a hero. 1144 02:29:32,130 --> 02:29:34,632 Indeed. You do not seem a romantic man. 1145 02:29:34,966 --> 02:29:35,966 Oh, no. 1146 02:29:36,259 --> 02:29:40,012 But influential men back home believe it's time for America... 1147 02:29:40,263 --> 02:29:42,973 ...to lend her weight to the struggle against Germany. 1148 02:29:43,183 --> 02:29:45,184 And Turkey. 1149 02:29:45,477 --> 02:29:49,813 I've been sent to find material to show our people that this war is.... 1150 02:29:50,315 --> 02:29:52,775 -Enjoyable? -Hardly that, sir. 1151 02:29:52,984 --> 02:29:55,986 But to show it in its more adventurous aspects. 1152 02:29:56,196 --> 02:29:59,823 You look for a figure who will draw your country towards war. 1153 02:30:01,409 --> 02:30:03,202 All right. Yes. 1154 02:30:03,828 --> 02:30:05,496 Lawrence is your man. 1155 02:30:45,370 --> 02:30:46,370 Stop! 1156 02:31:05,765 --> 02:31:09,601 Stop it! 1157 02:31:17,777 --> 02:31:19,278 Come on, men! 1158 02:32:28,473 --> 02:32:29,807 Lawrence! 1159 02:32:50,495 --> 02:32:52,496 Good God! God! 1160 02:33:38,877 --> 02:33:43,672 Jiminy! Never seen a man killed with a sword before. 1161 02:33:43,923 --> 02:33:46,174 Why don't you take a picture? 1162 02:33:46,551 --> 02:33:47,843 Wish I had. 1163 02:33:52,056 --> 02:33:54,266 How is it with thee, Lawrence? 1164 02:33:56,519 --> 02:33:57,561 Am I in this? 1165 02:33:58,563 --> 02:34:00,272 Did you take his picture? 1166 02:34:00,523 --> 02:34:01,773 Yeah. 1167 02:34:06,195 --> 02:34:10,365 You are using up your nine lives very quickly. 1168 02:34:12,869 --> 02:34:14,912 Charming company you keep. 1169 02:34:15,163 --> 02:34:16,413 Auda? 1170 02:34:17,206 --> 02:34:22,252 He's a bit old-fashioned. He thinks these things will steal his virtue. 1171 02:34:22,587 --> 02:34:24,671 He thinks you're a kind of thief. 1172 02:34:24,923 --> 02:34:27,049 It's all right to take your picture? 1173 02:34:27,592 --> 02:34:29,092 -All right. -Okay. 1174 02:34:29,302 --> 02:34:30,761 Just walk. 1175 02:35:30,989 --> 02:35:33,156 Major Lawrence! 1176 02:35:33,783 --> 02:35:36,493 Yes, sir, that's my baby. 1177 02:35:44,502 --> 02:35:47,129 This looting has got to stop! 1178 02:35:47,338 --> 02:35:48,672 It is customary. 1179 02:35:48,965 --> 02:35:52,509 It's theft. And theft makes thieves. 1180 02:35:52,802 --> 02:35:55,012 I would not say that to Auda. 1181 02:35:55,513 --> 02:35:58,306 -It is their payment, colonel. -Payment. 1182 02:35:58,516 --> 02:36:01,309 Truly. Are not British soldiers paid? 1183 02:36:02,186 --> 02:36:05,522 -They don't go home when being paid. -They are not free to. 1184 02:36:10,319 --> 02:36:14,406 Well, there's another lot you've seen the last of. 1185 02:36:14,699 --> 02:36:16,324 They'll come back. 1186 02:36:17,160 --> 02:36:20,078 He says they'll come back. Will they? 1187 02:36:20,371 --> 02:36:22,539 Not this year, Lawrence. 1188 02:36:23,291 --> 02:36:27,711 Look, Lawrence, how many men do you think you'll have left? 200? 1189 02:36:27,920 --> 02:36:30,714 -Less. -Well, then? 1190 02:36:31,049 --> 02:36:33,383 I said, they'll come back. 1191 02:36:34,093 --> 02:36:35,302 You badly hurt? 1192 02:36:36,846 --> 02:36:38,597 Not hurt at all. 1193 02:36:38,848 --> 02:36:43,018 Didn't you know? They can only kill me with a golden bullet. 1194 02:36:58,743 --> 02:37:02,579 It is for children. I have set myself to learn again. 1195 02:37:03,039 --> 02:37:06,583 -What are you learning from this? -Politics. 1196 02:37:07,251 --> 02:37:11,755 You'll be a democracy in this country? You gonna have a parliament? 1197 02:37:12,423 --> 02:37:14,716 I will tell you that when I have a country. 1198 02:37:16,969 --> 02:37:18,261 Did I answer well? 1199 02:37:18,638 --> 02:37:22,849 You answered without saying anything. That's politics. 1200 02:37:24,102 --> 02:37:25,769 You learn quickly. 1201 02:37:27,105 --> 02:37:29,272 I have a good teacher. 1202 02:37:31,901 --> 02:37:33,276 Yeah. 1203 02:37:40,993 --> 02:37:42,869 -How's your hurt? -Fine. 1204 02:37:43,079 --> 02:37:47,916 Before I return to the fleshpots, which I shall be very glad to do... 1205 02:37:48,126 --> 02:37:51,169 ...may I put two questions to you, straight? 1206 02:37:51,462 --> 02:37:54,798 I'd be interested to hear you put a question straight. 1207 02:37:55,007 --> 02:37:56,174 One. 1208 02:37:56,634 --> 02:38:00,595 What, in your opinion, do these people hope to gain from this war? 1209 02:38:00,888 --> 02:38:03,306 They hope to gain their freedom. 1210 02:38:04,600 --> 02:38:05,642 Freedom. 1211 02:38:06,936 --> 02:38:09,771 "They hope to gain their freedom." 1212 02:38:09,981 --> 02:38:13,650 -There's one born every minute. -They're going to get it. 1213 02:38:14,443 --> 02:38:16,653 I'm going to give it to them. 1214 02:38:18,322 --> 02:38:24,161 -The second question? -Well, I was going to ask... 1215 02:38:24,662 --> 02:38:28,623 ...what is it that attracts you personally to the desert? 1216 02:38:30,626 --> 02:38:32,669 It's clean. 1217 02:38:35,506 --> 02:38:37,048 Well, now... 1218 02:38:37,925 --> 02:38:40,051 ...that's a very illuminating answer. 1219 02:38:40,428 --> 02:38:42,053 May I... 1220 02:38:42,680 --> 02:38:45,182 ...take one farewell picture? 1221 02:38:46,017 --> 02:38:49,060 I gave Math Budad two lamps for it. 1222 02:38:49,353 --> 02:38:52,314 One clock for two lamps. 1223 02:38:52,815 --> 02:38:54,024 A fair bargain. 1224 02:38:54,233 --> 02:38:56,860 Fair? l robbed him. 1225 02:39:08,331 --> 02:39:09,831 Trash. 1226 02:39:10,958 --> 02:39:13,376 I must find something honourable. 1227 02:39:13,669 --> 02:39:15,212 Honourable? 1228 02:39:15,838 --> 02:39:19,591 The year is running out, Brighton. 1229 02:39:24,013 --> 02:39:27,015 I must find something honourable. 1230 02:41:58,542 --> 02:42:00,710 Now you may blow up my train. 1231 02:42:01,003 --> 02:42:02,712 And what will you do now? 1232 02:42:02,922 --> 02:42:07,509 Now I go home. They will carry my toys. 1233 02:42:08,260 --> 02:42:10,261 They will carry my toys too, see? 1234 02:42:10,679 --> 02:42:13,723 Major Lawrence will campaign this winter. 1235 02:42:14,016 --> 02:42:17,394 But you got what you wanted, so you're going home, is that it? 1236 02:42:17,561 --> 02:42:22,232 Of course. When Lawrence has got what he wants, he will go home. 1237 02:42:22,441 --> 02:42:25,026 When you've got what you want, you will go home. 1238 02:42:25,236 --> 02:42:26,903 No, I shan't, Auda. 1239 02:42:27,696 --> 02:42:29,072 Then you are a fool. 1240 02:42:29,740 --> 02:42:32,742 Maybe. But I am not a deserter. 1241 02:42:33,869 --> 02:42:36,079 Give thanks to God, Brighton... 1242 02:42:36,288 --> 02:42:39,416 ...that when he made you a fool, he gave you a fool's face. 1243 02:42:40,668 --> 02:42:42,752 You are an impudent rascal. 1244 02:42:44,255 --> 02:42:48,591 I must go, Lawrence, before I soil myself with a fool's blood. 1245 02:42:58,978 --> 02:43:00,728 Like talking to a brick wall. 1246 02:43:09,405 --> 02:43:12,073 So what will you do now? What can you do? 1247 02:43:12,741 --> 02:43:14,451 I'll go north. 1248 02:43:15,786 --> 02:43:17,620 That's what Allenby wants. 1249 02:43:17,830 --> 02:43:21,958 Allenby wanted the Arab army behind Deraa. 1250 02:43:22,209 --> 02:43:24,461 Then that's where I'll take it. 1251 02:43:25,463 --> 02:43:30,300 Tell Allenby to hurry up, or we'll be in Deraa before he's in Jerusalem. 1252 02:43:30,593 --> 02:43:31,759 Won't we? 1253 02:44:04,251 --> 02:44:05,293 Train, Farraj. 1254 02:44:06,337 --> 02:44:07,837 Yeah, Lawrence. 1255 02:44:37,034 --> 02:44:38,868 Hide yourself, my friend. 1256 02:44:48,087 --> 02:44:49,546 Detonator. 1257 02:45:03,060 --> 02:45:04,727 All right, fetch another. 1258 02:45:04,937 --> 02:45:08,731 -Pardon, Lawrence. I put-- -Plenty of time. Fetch another. 1259 02:45:14,196 --> 02:45:15,572 Farraj? 1260 02:45:25,874 --> 02:45:28,918 -What happened? -Detonator. A detonator! 1261 02:45:42,433 --> 02:45:44,934 He cannot ride, Lawrence. Look. 1262 02:45:54,445 --> 02:45:57,280 If they take him alive, you know what they'll do to him. 1263 02:46:09,668 --> 02:46:12,128 Daud will be angry with you. 1264 02:46:13,130 --> 02:46:15,006 Salute him for me. 1265 02:46:34,818 --> 02:46:36,486 What will you do now? 1266 02:46:37,946 --> 02:46:39,447 Go north. 1267 02:46:39,657 --> 02:46:41,115 With twenty? 1268 02:46:41,992 --> 02:46:44,452 What would you recommend me to do? 1269 02:46:46,163 --> 02:46:48,164 What would you recommend? 1270 02:46:53,170 --> 02:46:55,505 He hasn't 1/1 0 so many men, sir. 1271 02:46:55,673 --> 02:46:57,548 He's lied, in fact. 1272 02:46:58,926 --> 02:47:02,637 Yes and no. He doesn't claim to have done anything he hasn't done. 1273 02:47:02,846 --> 02:47:05,515 Then there is an Arab north army. 1274 02:47:07,017 --> 02:47:11,521 -No, sir, he has lied about that. -Any idea why? 1275 02:47:11,939 --> 02:47:15,942 -It's his army, I suppose. -It's Prince Feisal's army. 1276 02:47:17,361 --> 02:47:19,862 Do you think he's gone native, Harry? 1277 02:47:21,198 --> 02:47:22,824 No. 1278 02:47:23,867 --> 02:47:27,578 He would if he could, I think. 1279 02:47:29,373 --> 02:47:32,834 -Not my line of country. -It doesn't matter. Just curious. 1280 02:47:33,544 --> 02:47:35,753 What matters is I believed it. 1281 02:47:36,046 --> 02:47:37,714 The Turks believe it. 1282 02:47:38,006 --> 02:47:41,384 They are offering 20,000 pounds for him. 1283 02:47:43,345 --> 02:47:45,096 Good heavens. 1284 02:47:45,556 --> 02:47:49,267 -Shouldn't say he had long to live. -Whatever else, he's a brave man-- 1285 02:47:49,518 --> 02:47:53,896 Surely, surely. If he's still going north with 50 men, he doesn't lack guts. 1286 02:47:55,065 --> 02:47:57,859 I wonder if they'd offer that much for me. 1287 02:47:59,570 --> 02:48:03,698 What about next year? Will they still come back? 1288 02:48:03,907 --> 02:48:05,908 I wouldn't be surprised. 1289 02:48:06,118 --> 02:48:09,746 -They think he's a kind of prophet. -They do or he does? 1290 02:48:25,387 --> 02:48:27,930 -Now may I speak? -Yes. 1291 02:48:28,599 --> 02:48:31,768 One more failure and you will find yourself alone. 1292 02:48:33,145 --> 02:48:36,647 -I do not include myself. -I do not include the others. 1293 02:48:36,940 --> 02:48:39,108 So say they love you. 1294 02:48:39,568 --> 02:48:42,069 The more reason to be thrifty with them. 1295 02:48:42,279 --> 02:48:45,406 Give them something to do that can be done. But you, no. 1296 02:48:45,616 --> 02:48:47,784 They must move mountains, walk on water. 1297 02:48:48,035 --> 02:48:51,245 That's right. That's right. 1298 02:48:51,830 --> 02:48:54,332 Who are you to know what can be done? 1299 02:48:54,792 --> 02:48:58,461 If we'd done what you thought could be done, we'd be in Yenbo now. 1300 02:48:59,046 --> 02:49:03,466 Whatever I ask them to do can be done. They know that if you don't. 1301 02:49:05,594 --> 02:49:08,554 Do you think I'm just anybody? 1302 02:49:09,056 --> 02:49:10,431 Do you? 1303 02:49:13,644 --> 02:49:16,979 My friends, who will walk on water with me? 1304 02:49:20,442 --> 02:49:24,821 -Who will come with me into Deraa? -Deraa is garrisoned. 1305 02:49:24,988 --> 02:49:27,114 Will you take 20 against 2000? 1306 02:49:27,324 --> 02:49:31,077 -I'll go by myself if I have to. -Why? 1307 02:49:31,328 --> 02:49:33,162 Because I told the English generals... 1308 02:49:33,455 --> 02:49:37,083 ...the Arab revolt would be in Deraa when they'd be in Jerusalem. 1309 02:49:37,501 --> 02:49:39,627 Or perhaps you are here... 1310 02:49:40,212 --> 02:49:42,171 ...for the English generals. 1311 02:49:44,216 --> 02:49:45,883 Who says this? 1312 02:49:46,176 --> 02:49:47,510 Rumour. 1313 02:49:48,846 --> 02:49:51,347 That is not an argument. 1314 02:49:51,598 --> 02:49:53,808 Oh, argument. 1315 02:49:54,017 --> 02:49:57,353 This afternoon I will take the Arab revolt into Deraa... 1316 02:49:57,646 --> 02:50:00,022 ...while the Arabs argue. 1317 02:50:01,984 --> 02:50:05,111 Can you pass for an Arab in an Arab town? 1318 02:50:05,487 --> 02:50:09,240 Yes. If one of you would lend me some dirty clothes. 1319 02:50:18,500 --> 02:50:19,709 It's madness. 1320 02:50:23,213 --> 02:50:25,006 What are you looking for? 1321 02:50:25,215 --> 02:50:27,717 Some way to announce myself. 1322 02:50:27,926 --> 02:50:29,886 Be patient with him, God. 1323 02:50:43,275 --> 02:50:47,570 -Do you not see how they look at you? -Peace, Ali, I am invisible. 1324 02:50:47,738 --> 02:50:49,071 Halt! 1325 02:50:49,281 --> 02:50:50,531 Walk on. 1326 02:50:50,741 --> 02:50:52,575 -Halt! -Walk on. 1327 02:50:53,744 --> 02:50:55,912 You and you. 1328 02:52:37,055 --> 02:52:38,139 You. 1329 02:52:54,698 --> 02:52:56,699 You have blue eyes. 1330 02:52:57,576 --> 02:53:01,829 -I say you have blue eyes. -Yes, effendi. 1331 02:53:02,039 --> 02:53:05,332 -Are you Circassian? -Yes, effendi. 1332 02:53:06,209 --> 02:53:07,793 How old are you? 1333 02:53:08,045 --> 02:53:11,047 Twenty-seven, effendi. 1334 02:53:11,298 --> 02:53:13,174 I think. 1335 02:53:13,383 --> 02:53:17,928 You look older. You have had a lot of experience. 1336 02:53:19,222 --> 02:53:21,307 It's an interesting face. 1337 02:53:25,937 --> 02:53:28,397 I am surrounded by cattle. 1338 02:53:29,066 --> 02:53:32,735 He wouldn't know an interesting face from a sow's belly. 1339 02:53:33,737 --> 02:53:37,740 I have been is Deraa now for three and a half years. 1340 02:53:37,949 --> 02:53:42,369 If they posted me to the dark side of the moon, I could not be more... 1341 02:53:42,579 --> 02:53:44,413 ...isolated. 1342 02:53:46,333 --> 02:53:48,918 You haven't the least idea what l'm talking about. 1343 02:53:49,211 --> 02:53:50,920 No, effendi. 1344 02:53:53,465 --> 02:53:54,882 Have you? 1345 02:53:56,093 --> 02:53:57,384 No. 1346 02:53:58,095 --> 02:53:59,929 That would be too... 1347 02:54:00,138 --> 02:54:01,764 ...lucky. 1348 02:54:26,248 --> 02:54:27,998 Where did you get that? 1349 02:54:29,918 --> 02:54:34,088 -It's old, effendi. -No, this is recent. 1350 02:54:36,133 --> 02:54:38,384 -You are a deserter. -No, effendi. 1351 02:54:38,635 --> 02:54:40,511 Yes, you are a deserter. 1352 02:54:41,638 --> 02:54:43,889 But from which army? 1353 02:54:46,393 --> 02:54:48,644 Not that it matters at all. 1354 02:54:48,979 --> 02:54:51,313 A man cannot be always in uniform. 1355 02:55:02,826 --> 02:55:04,785 Your skin is very fair. 1356 02:55:23,680 --> 02:55:24,972 Beat him. 1357 02:56:59,526 --> 02:57:00,901 To me! 1358 02:59:03,400 --> 02:59:05,000 Sleep. 1359 02:59:20,083 --> 02:59:21,683 Eat. 1360 02:59:32,387 --> 02:59:35,222 You have a body, like other men. 1361 02:59:43,731 --> 02:59:44,773 Good. 1362 02:59:45,942 --> 02:59:47,734 Then sleep. 1363 03:00:01,249 --> 03:00:02,499 Better? 1364 03:00:03,126 --> 03:00:05,836 Much better. You were right. 1365 03:00:06,129 --> 03:00:08,297 Rest, rest. Can you not learn? 1366 03:00:09,257 --> 03:00:11,300 Oh, l've learned all right. 1367 03:00:17,098 --> 03:00:18,807 I'm going, Ali. 1368 03:00:19,851 --> 03:00:21,977 -Why? -Why? 1369 03:00:23,271 --> 03:00:24,521 Heavens. 1370 03:00:24,814 --> 03:00:26,106 Why? 1371 03:00:26,983 --> 03:00:29,234 I've come to the end of myself, I suppose. 1372 03:00:29,486 --> 03:00:31,487 And the end of the Arab revolt? 1373 03:00:31,779 --> 03:00:34,865 I'm not the Arab revolt, Ali. I'm not even Arab. 1374 03:00:35,158 --> 03:00:38,160 A man can be whatever he wants. You said. 1375 03:00:38,453 --> 03:00:41,455 I'm sorry. I thought it was true. 1376 03:00:41,664 --> 03:00:43,624 You proved it. 1377 03:00:43,833 --> 03:00:46,001 Look, Ali. Look. 1378 03:00:46,294 --> 03:00:50,047 That's me. What colour is it? That's me. 1379 03:00:50,840 --> 03:00:53,175 And there's nothing I can do about it. 1380 03:00:53,343 --> 03:00:56,011 A man can do whatever he wants. You said. 1381 03:00:57,805 --> 03:00:59,264 He can... 1382 03:00:59,474 --> 03:01:02,351 ...but he can't want what he wants. 1383 03:01:03,311 --> 03:01:06,522 This is the stuff that decides what he wants. 1384 03:01:09,359 --> 03:01:13,153 You may as well know. I would've told them anything. 1385 03:01:13,363 --> 03:01:17,324 I would've told them who I am. I would've told them where you were. 1386 03:01:17,534 --> 03:01:20,327 -I tried to. -So would any man. 1387 03:01:20,537 --> 03:01:24,039 Well, any man is what l am. 1388 03:01:25,041 --> 03:01:29,044 And l'm going back to Allenby to ask him for a job... 1389 03:01:29,337 --> 03:01:31,380 ...that any man can do. 1390 03:01:31,673 --> 03:01:33,549 Allenby's in Jerusalem. 1391 03:01:33,841 --> 03:01:36,552 -I'll make easy stages. -You? 1392 03:01:38,096 --> 03:01:41,557 Oh, yes. Easy stages. 1393 03:01:43,351 --> 03:01:47,896 Look, Ali, I think l see a way of being just... 1394 03:01:48,106 --> 03:01:49,731 ...ordinarily... 1395 03:01:50,400 --> 03:01:51,817 ...happy. 1396 03:01:55,613 --> 03:01:57,239 Can I take this? 1397 03:01:57,865 --> 03:01:59,741 It is not clean. 1398 03:02:00,034 --> 03:02:03,078 No, but it's warm. 1399 03:02:03,454 --> 03:02:04,746 And these... 1400 03:02:04,956 --> 03:02:08,917 ...having led them here, have you no care for them? 1401 03:02:10,420 --> 03:02:15,591 You lead them. They're yours. Trust your own people. 1402 03:02:17,844 --> 03:02:20,053 And let me go back to mine. 1403 03:02:49,167 --> 03:02:52,294 -I say, don't forget those form fives. -All right. 1404 03:02:58,134 --> 03:02:59,968 Mind if l join you? 1405 03:03:00,803 --> 03:03:02,471 Honoured, sir. 1406 03:03:04,807 --> 03:03:08,143 -Good to be back. -We heard you were, sir. 1407 03:03:08,686 --> 03:03:11,271 -What's doing out there? -Where? 1408 03:03:11,481 --> 03:03:13,774 -Arabia? -Well, yes, sir. 1409 03:03:13,983 --> 03:03:17,319 Nothing much. Wrong time of year. What's doing here? 1410 03:03:17,612 --> 03:03:19,988 We're settling in. We built a squash court. 1411 03:03:20,198 --> 03:03:21,657 Jolly good. 1412 03:03:22,492 --> 03:03:26,495 Well, I have to go up there. 1413 03:03:27,497 --> 03:03:29,956 It's borrowed. Someone pinched mine. 1414 03:03:30,166 --> 03:03:31,917 Bloody wogs. 1415 03:03:33,336 --> 03:03:35,212 Yes, probably. 1416 03:03:35,963 --> 03:03:38,340 Jolly good about the squash court. 1417 03:03:41,052 --> 03:03:43,553 Lays it on a bit thick, doesn't he? 1418 03:03:56,818 --> 03:03:58,068 Morning. 1419 03:03:58,236 --> 03:04:00,028 -Good morning, sir. -Good to be back. 1420 03:04:00,321 --> 03:04:03,365 -I'll believe you, sir. -No, really it is. 1421 03:04:06,661 --> 03:04:07,994 Hello. 1422 03:04:08,579 --> 03:04:11,707 Morning. You're to go right in. 1423 03:04:23,720 --> 03:04:25,220 Lawrence. 1424 03:04:27,014 --> 03:04:29,558 Or is it Major Lawrence? 1425 03:04:30,226 --> 03:04:31,601 Sir. 1426 03:04:37,400 --> 03:04:39,234 Well, general, I will leave you. 1427 03:04:39,527 --> 03:04:42,404 Major Lawrence doubtless has reports to make... 1428 03:04:42,697 --> 03:04:46,491 ...about my people and their weakness... 1429 03:04:46,743 --> 03:04:51,538 ...and the need to keep them in the British interest. 1430 03:04:54,041 --> 03:04:57,586 And the French interest too. We must not forget the French. 1431 03:04:57,754 --> 03:04:59,796 I told you, sir, no such treaty exists. 1432 03:05:00,089 --> 03:05:04,551 Yes, general, you have lied most bravely, but not convincingly. 1433 03:05:04,761 --> 03:05:06,762 I know this treaty does exist. 1434 03:05:07,013 --> 03:05:08,930 Treaty, sir? 1435 03:05:11,100 --> 03:05:13,101 He does it better than you, general. 1436 03:05:13,394 --> 03:05:16,646 But then, of course, he is almost an Arab. 1437 03:05:30,828 --> 03:05:32,454 You really don't know? 1438 03:05:34,791 --> 03:05:36,792 Then what the devil's this? 1439 03:05:37,794 --> 03:05:41,671 It's my request for release from Arabia, sir. 1440 03:05:41,923 --> 03:05:43,298 For what reason? 1441 03:05:43,466 --> 03:05:45,801 You sure you haven't heard of the Sykes-Picot Treaty? 1442 03:05:45,968 --> 03:05:47,344 No. 1443 03:05:48,137 --> 03:05:51,306 -I can guess. -Don't guess. Tell him. 1444 03:05:53,100 --> 03:05:54,476 Well, now.... 1445 03:05:54,936 --> 03:05:57,979 Mr. Sykes is an English civil servant. 1446 03:05:58,189 --> 03:06:01,316 Monsieur Picot is a French civil servant. 1447 03:06:01,484 --> 03:06:05,695 Mr. Sykes and Monsieur Picot met, and they agreed that after the war... 1448 03:06:05,988 --> 03:06:09,324 ...France and England should share the Turkish Empire. 1449 03:06:09,617 --> 03:06:11,326 Including Arabia. 1450 03:06:11,619 --> 03:06:15,664 They signed an agreement, not a treaty, sir. 1451 03:06:15,873 --> 03:06:19,000 An agreement to that effect. 1452 03:06:19,669 --> 03:06:23,213 There may be honour among thieves, but there's none in politicians. 1453 03:06:23,506 --> 03:06:26,216 And let's have no displays of indignation. 1454 03:06:26,509 --> 03:06:29,636 You may not have known, but you certainly had suspicions. 1455 03:06:30,137 --> 03:06:33,473 If we've told lies, you've told half-lies. 1456 03:06:33,683 --> 03:06:38,144 And a man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. 1457 03:06:38,354 --> 03:06:43,108 But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it. 1458 03:06:43,693 --> 03:06:46,987 The truth is I'm an ordinary man. 1459 03:06:47,488 --> 03:06:49,865 You might have told me that, Dryden. 1460 03:06:51,367 --> 03:06:53,368 And l want an ordinary job, sir. 1461 03:06:53,619 --> 03:06:55,912 That's my reason for resigning. 1462 03:06:57,206 --> 03:06:58,874 It's personal. 1463 03:06:59,041 --> 03:07:01,251 -Personal? -Yes, sir. 1464 03:07:01,544 --> 03:07:04,629 Personal? You're a serving officer in the field. 1465 03:07:04,881 --> 03:07:08,216 And as it happens, a damned important one. Are you mad? 1466 03:07:08,509 --> 03:07:11,720 No, and if you don't mind, I'd rather not go mad. 1467 03:07:11,929 --> 03:07:14,014 That's my reason too. 1468 03:07:14,181 --> 03:07:19,227 Look, I'm making my big push on Damascus the 1 6th of next month... 1469 03:07:19,395 --> 03:07:21,396 ...and you are part of it. 1470 03:07:21,898 --> 03:07:25,567 Can you understand that? You're an important part of the big push! 1471 03:07:25,776 --> 03:07:29,696 I don't want to be part of your big push! 1472 03:07:30,406 --> 03:07:32,449 What about your Arab friends? 1473 03:07:32,700 --> 03:07:36,536 I have no Arab friends! I don't want Arab friends! 1474 03:07:36,746 --> 03:07:38,914 What in hell do you want, Lawrence? 1475 03:07:39,165 --> 03:07:44,252 I've told you, I just want my ration of common humanity. 1476 03:07:44,545 --> 03:07:47,422 -Lawrence. -Yes? 1477 03:07:50,176 --> 03:07:52,928 Nothing. Sorry I interrupted, sir. 1478 03:07:53,179 --> 03:07:55,263 That's all right. Thank you, Mr. Dryden. 1479 03:07:55,556 --> 03:07:57,265 Thank you, sir. 1480 03:07:58,309 --> 03:08:00,560 Why don't we...? 1481 03:08:03,105 --> 03:08:04,940 There's blood on your back. 1482 03:08:06,233 --> 03:08:09,319 -Do you want a doctor? -No. 1483 03:08:10,488 --> 03:08:12,697 Tell me what happened. 1484 03:08:17,620 --> 03:08:19,788 Say, what goes on in there? 1485 03:08:20,581 --> 03:08:22,457 -Nothing. -Oh, come on! 1486 03:08:22,708 --> 03:08:26,127 -No, really. Nothing at all. -Is the man in trouble? 1487 03:08:26,337 --> 03:08:30,298 I expect so. We all have troubles. Life's a vale of troubles. 1488 03:08:30,591 --> 03:08:34,469 Let me know if the man's in trouble. I've got a claim in that man. 1489 03:08:34,720 --> 03:08:38,139 -What claim? -I've made that boy a hero. 1490 03:08:38,349 --> 03:08:41,101 When the war's over, he can be anything he wants. 1491 03:08:41,310 --> 03:08:45,647 Yes. Well, at the moment he wants to be somebody else. 1492 03:08:46,148 --> 03:08:48,984 Will you kindly allow me to pass? 1493 03:08:49,527 --> 03:08:51,987 Walk away, Dryden, walk away. 1494 03:08:52,279 --> 03:08:55,031 Always walking away, aren't you? 1495 03:08:55,324 --> 03:08:56,825 Well, I'll tell you. 1496 03:08:57,034 --> 03:08:59,995 It's a clash of temperament that's going on in there. 1497 03:09:00,246 --> 03:09:03,164 Inevitably, one of them's half-mad... 1498 03:09:03,374 --> 03:09:06,167 ...and the other, wholly unscrupulous. 1499 03:09:07,003 --> 03:09:10,005 I believe your name will be a household word... 1500 03:09:10,506 --> 03:09:14,175 ...when you'd have to go to the war museum to find who Allenby was. 1501 03:09:15,052 --> 03:09:17,971 You're the most extraordinary man I ever met. 1502 03:09:18,556 --> 03:09:20,056 Leave me alone. 1503 03:09:20,349 --> 03:09:22,851 -Leave me alone. -That's a feeble thing to say. 1504 03:09:23,060 --> 03:09:25,687 -I know I'm not ordinary. -That's not what I'm saying. 1505 03:09:25,896 --> 03:09:28,690 All right, l'm extraordinary. 1506 03:09:30,693 --> 03:09:31,776 What of it? 1507 03:09:32,153 --> 03:09:34,863 Not many people have a destiny, Lawrence. 1508 03:09:35,031 --> 03:09:38,199 It's a terrible thing for a man to flunk it if he has. 1509 03:09:38,367 --> 03:09:40,535 Are you speaking from experience? 1510 03:09:40,828 --> 03:09:42,203 No. 1511 03:09:42,371 --> 03:09:44,205 You're guessing, then. 1512 03:09:45,374 --> 03:09:46,708 Suppose you're wrong. 1513 03:09:47,001 --> 03:09:50,045 Why suppose that? We both know I'm right. 1514 03:09:50,880 --> 03:09:53,840 -Yes. I said, yes. -After all-- 1515 03:09:56,385 --> 03:09:58,428 -The 1 6th? -Can you do it? 1516 03:09:58,596 --> 03:10:00,722 I'll give you a lot of money. 1517 03:10:01,015 --> 03:10:03,850 -Artillery? -I can't. 1518 03:10:05,061 --> 03:10:08,021 They won't be coming for money, not the best of them. 1519 03:10:08,314 --> 03:10:10,523 They'll be coming for Damascus. 1520 03:10:11,567 --> 03:10:13,610 Which I'm going to give them. 1521 03:10:14,361 --> 03:10:16,112 That's all I want. 1522 03:10:17,198 --> 03:10:20,075 All you want is someone holding down the Turkish Right. 1523 03:10:20,326 --> 03:10:24,579 But I'm going to give them Damascus. We'll get there before you do. 1524 03:10:24,872 --> 03:10:28,041 And when we've got it, we'll keep it. 1525 03:10:28,250 --> 03:10:30,627 Tell the politicians to burn their paper now. 1526 03:10:30,878 --> 03:10:32,212 Fair enough. 1527 03:10:32,713 --> 03:10:35,590 Fair? What's fair got to do with it? 1528 03:10:36,342 --> 03:10:38,259 It's going to happen. 1529 03:10:38,928 --> 03:10:41,054 I shall want quite a lot of money. 1530 03:10:41,764 --> 03:10:43,431 All there is. 1531 03:10:43,933 --> 03:10:45,558 Not that much. 1532 03:10:48,854 --> 03:10:51,606 The best of them won't come for money. 1533 03:10:53,484 --> 03:10:54,901 They'll come for me. 1534 03:11:13,379 --> 03:11:14,629 No pictures! 1535 03:11:14,922 --> 03:11:17,257 It's not for you, it's for Major Lawrence. 1536 03:11:17,466 --> 03:11:21,636 He doesn't mind having his picture taken. He doesn't mind at all. 1537 03:11:21,887 --> 03:11:24,139 Well, there's only one Lawrence. 1538 03:11:28,602 --> 03:11:31,187 Have you met Major Lawrence since he's come back? 1539 03:11:31,480 --> 03:11:32,772 Yes. 1540 03:11:32,940 --> 03:11:35,316 -Changed, hasn't he? -No. 1541 03:11:35,484 --> 03:11:38,403 Oh, l'd say he had. Different man, I'd say. 1542 03:11:43,159 --> 03:11:46,828 What did that Turkish general do to him in Deraa? 1543 03:11:47,538 --> 03:11:52,333 He was the same man after Deraa. The same man, humbled. 1544 03:11:54,003 --> 03:11:56,546 What did the English general do to him in Jerusalem? 1545 03:11:56,839 --> 03:11:58,506 Search me. Ask Lawrence. 1546 03:11:58,716 --> 03:12:00,675 -I did. -What did he say? 1547 03:12:00,926 --> 03:12:02,510 He laughed. 1548 03:12:03,012 --> 03:12:05,638 He told me to gather the Harith here. 1549 03:12:06,182 --> 03:12:07,724 He offered me money. 1550 03:12:08,017 --> 03:12:09,559 Did you take it? 1551 03:12:10,352 --> 03:12:12,979 No. But many did. 1552 03:12:50,726 --> 03:12:53,770 -What is this? -This is my bodyguard. 1553 03:12:54,480 --> 03:12:57,106 There is not a man without a price on his head. 1554 03:12:57,399 --> 03:13:01,027 -There's a price on my head too. -But these are murderers. 1555 03:13:01,237 --> 03:13:03,238 The sheiks will hang these men. 1556 03:13:03,489 --> 03:13:05,240 These men are mine. 1557 03:13:05,741 --> 03:13:10,078 Lawrence, these things know nothing of the Arab revolt. 1558 03:13:10,412 --> 03:13:13,873 -You, Ghitan of Aleppo. -Sherif? 1559 03:13:14,083 --> 03:13:17,085 -Where do we ride? -Damascus, sherif. 1560 03:13:17,294 --> 03:13:19,212 Aye, but for what? 1561 03:13:19,421 --> 03:13:21,589 Sherif, for Lawrence. 1562 03:13:24,718 --> 03:13:28,054 -You have bought these things. -I bought half the men here, Ali. 1563 03:13:28,264 --> 03:13:31,057 That is different. These are not ordinary men. 1564 03:13:31,267 --> 03:13:34,269 I don't want ordinary men. Hut! 1565 03:13:38,274 --> 03:13:40,108 Damascus! 1566 03:13:40,317 --> 03:13:45,738 Damascus! Damascus! 1567 03:14:19,606 --> 03:14:23,151 Very well, gentlemen. The cavalry's gone through Mazril and Deraa. 1568 03:14:23,444 --> 03:14:27,071 Very good, by the way. Very good indeed. Now your turn. 1569 03:14:27,281 --> 03:14:30,950 If the enemy's retreating in any order, which we'll assume-- 1570 03:14:31,118 --> 03:14:32,160 Certainly. 1571 03:14:32,328 --> 03:14:34,078 He can't be far from Mallud... 1572 03:14:34,705 --> 03:14:39,000 ...in which case I can have him within range by 0900 hours tomorrow. 1573 03:14:39,293 --> 03:14:41,294 Splendid. Philip. 1574 03:14:41,670 --> 03:14:44,339 These are the last infantry supports going up now. 1575 03:14:44,631 --> 03:14:48,176 But Mallud, we could have the fusiliers there by Wednesday. 1576 03:14:48,844 --> 03:14:52,305 That'll do for now. The guns are what matter. 1577 03:14:52,473 --> 03:14:53,723 Any questions? 1578 03:14:54,183 --> 03:14:58,311 This Arab army on the right, sir, what's it consist of? 1579 03:14:58,812 --> 03:15:01,022 Irregular cavalry, sir. About 2000. 1580 03:15:01,190 --> 03:15:03,107 Where are they now? 1581 03:15:03,817 --> 03:15:08,696 -Can only know by being with them. -Then get with them. I want to know. 1582 03:15:09,031 --> 03:15:11,324 Pound them, Charley. 1583 03:15:11,909 --> 03:15:13,326 Pound them. 1584 03:15:23,879 --> 03:15:26,714 God help the men who lie under that. 1585 03:15:26,924 --> 03:15:28,549 They're Turks. 1586 03:15:28,759 --> 03:15:30,426 God help them. 1587 03:16:13,178 --> 03:16:16,931 Well, he's got the bit between his teeth all right. 1588 03:16:17,182 --> 03:16:18,474 Cocky? 1589 03:16:18,684 --> 03:16:20,435 More than cocky, sir. 1590 03:16:20,727 --> 03:16:24,063 He's got the bit between his teeth all right. 1591 03:16:24,273 --> 03:16:27,775 I tell you, sir, I think he'll get to Damascus before we do. 1592 03:16:28,444 --> 03:16:30,278 -Unless.... -Unless? 1593 03:16:30,446 --> 03:16:34,323 Well, there's a Turkish column in front of him, out of Mazril. 1594 03:16:34,616 --> 03:16:37,577 -What do the Turks have in Mazril? -A brigade, sir. 1595 03:16:40,581 --> 03:16:42,790 I wonder where they are now. 1596 03:18:24,851 --> 03:18:26,018 No prisoners. 1597 03:18:29,523 --> 03:18:31,607 Damascus, Lawrence. 1598 03:18:41,535 --> 03:18:44,370 Lawrence, not this. 1599 03:18:45,080 --> 03:18:49,083 Go round. Damascus, Lawrence, Damascus. 1600 03:18:49,835 --> 03:18:51,419 No prisoners. 1601 03:19:01,555 --> 03:19:03,139 This was Talaal's village. 1602 03:19:07,394 --> 03:19:08,994 Talaal! 1603 03:19:29,666 --> 03:19:33,252 No prisoners! 1604 03:19:45,140 --> 03:19:46,740 God. 1605 03:19:53,440 --> 03:19:54,815 God! 1606 03:22:12,120 --> 03:22:15,289 Enough. Enough! Make them stop! 1607 03:23:52,679 --> 03:23:53,888 Major! 1608 03:23:54,556 --> 03:23:56,223 Major Lawrence! 1609 03:24:01,897 --> 03:24:03,897 Jesus wept. 1610 03:24:22,250 --> 03:24:24,293 Does it surprise you, Mr. Bentley? 1611 03:24:24,920 --> 03:24:27,713 Surely you know the Arabs are a barbarous people. 1612 03:24:27,923 --> 03:24:29,757 Barbarous and cruel. 1613 03:24:30,592 --> 03:24:34,219 Who but they? 1614 03:24:36,556 --> 03:24:38,933 Oh, you rotten man. 1615 03:24:39,976 --> 03:24:44,396 Here, let me take your rotten bloody picture. 1616 03:24:46,483 --> 03:24:48,609 For the rotten bloody newspapers. 1617 03:25:15,095 --> 03:25:18,597 These were cut last night, Lawrence, in Damascus. 1618 03:25:19,015 --> 03:25:20,724 Damascus! 1619 03:25:20,934 --> 03:25:22,810 Take them to Sherif Ali. 1620 03:25:23,019 --> 03:25:24,436 Tell him. 1621 03:25:25,438 --> 03:25:27,147 Remind him. 1622 03:25:27,983 --> 03:25:31,110 -Is Allenby in Damascus? -Near. 1623 03:25:31,945 --> 03:25:34,238 Tell Sherif Ali that. 1624 03:25:35,490 --> 03:25:37,324 They are not ripe. 1625 03:25:43,289 --> 03:25:45,332 General salute! 1626 03:25:45,500 --> 03:25:50,212 Present arms! 1627 03:26:02,142 --> 03:26:04,018 Port arms! 1628 03:26:06,813 --> 03:26:08,689 Lawrence is behind it, sir. 1629 03:26:08,898 --> 03:26:11,775 The whole town is plastered with the Arab flag. 1630 03:26:18,074 --> 03:26:19,867 -When? -A day and a night, sir. 1631 03:26:20,076 --> 03:26:21,994 They've been here a day and a night. 1632 03:26:22,203 --> 03:26:24,705 They've occupied the town. They've done it. 1633 03:26:24,998 --> 03:26:28,876 He's set up his own headquarters in the town hall. 1634 03:26:29,794 --> 03:26:31,587 What else beside the town hall? 1635 03:26:31,880 --> 03:26:34,715 Telephone exchange, post office, powerhouse... 1636 03:26:35,008 --> 03:26:37,384 ...hospitals, fire station. Everything, sir. 1637 03:26:37,594 --> 03:26:40,554 They call themselves the Arab National Council... 1638 03:26:40,722 --> 03:26:42,389 ...and they're in the town hall. 1639 03:26:42,682 --> 03:26:45,559 Well, they're your pigeon, Harry. 1640 03:26:47,228 --> 03:26:48,729 What should we do about it? 1641 03:26:48,938 --> 03:26:51,356 Get them out of it, sir, quick time. 1642 03:26:52,233 --> 03:26:54,068 How about that, Dryden? 1643 03:26:55,862 --> 03:26:58,572 Not unless you want a full-scale rising. 1644 03:26:59,365 --> 03:27:02,409 -What, then? -When will Feisal be in Damascus? 1645 03:27:02,577 --> 03:27:04,620 By special train in two days' time. 1646 03:27:04,913 --> 03:27:06,205 Two days. 1647 03:27:06,372 --> 03:27:09,750 Two days is what you asked for. I can't keep him out any longer. 1648 03:27:10,043 --> 03:27:12,086 -Isn't it enough? -Yes. 1649 03:27:12,253 --> 03:27:15,714 -Ample, l should think. -We can't just do nothing. 1650 03:27:15,924 --> 03:27:19,593 Why not? It's usually best. Get us something to drink, Tracey. 1651 03:27:19,844 --> 03:27:24,098 And Tracey, all troops to remain quartered until further orders. 1652 03:27:24,474 --> 03:27:26,100 Does that apply to technical units? 1653 03:27:26,392 --> 03:27:28,477 Technical units particularly. 1654 03:27:28,770 --> 03:27:30,104 Yes, sir. 1655 03:27:30,647 --> 03:27:32,106 Medicals too, sir? 1656 03:27:32,357 --> 03:27:34,566 I'm afraid so, Harry. 1657 03:27:34,901 --> 03:27:36,610 Medicals too. 1658 03:28:16,985 --> 03:28:18,527 We here... 1659 03:28:18,778 --> 03:28:21,655 ...are neither Harith nor Howeitat... 1660 03:28:21,823 --> 03:28:24,992 ...nor any other tribe, but Arabs... 1661 03:28:25,326 --> 03:28:28,787 ...of the Arab Council, acting for Prince Feisal. 1662 03:28:28,997 --> 03:28:31,039 He insulted me. 1663 03:28:32,167 --> 03:28:36,295 Sherif Ali said that the telephones are in the care of the Howeitat... 1664 03:28:36,504 --> 03:28:39,339 ...and they have ceased to work. And this is true. 1665 03:28:39,841 --> 03:28:43,552 They will not work because they are given no electricity. 1666 03:28:43,803 --> 03:28:47,347 The electricity is in the care of the Harith. 1667 03:28:49,809 --> 03:28:52,144 If you answer, there will be bloodshed. 1668 03:28:53,021 --> 03:28:56,523 You speak to me of bloodshed? 1669 03:28:59,235 --> 03:29:03,197 I ask pardon of Auda Abu Tayi. 1670 03:29:03,448 --> 03:29:04,990 Humbly? 1671 03:29:05,158 --> 03:29:06,533 Humbly, Harith? 1672 03:29:06,826 --> 03:29:08,827 Yes, humbly. 1673 03:29:09,204 --> 03:29:11,330 This is a new trick. 1674 03:29:12,332 --> 03:29:13,999 Why is there no electricity? 1675 03:29:14,959 --> 03:29:17,711 I have been to that electrical house, Lawrence. 1676 03:29:17,962 --> 03:29:20,839 There are three large machines. 1677 03:29:21,049 --> 03:29:23,383 He means generators! 1678 03:29:23,885 --> 03:29:25,052 So. 1679 03:29:25,511 --> 03:29:27,221 One of them is burning. 1680 03:29:27,472 --> 03:29:30,557 They are of an incredible size, but helpless. 1681 03:29:30,892 --> 03:29:33,602 It is so of all machines. 1682 03:29:33,853 --> 03:29:37,856 Let them burn. What need of telephones? 1683 03:29:40,526 --> 03:29:43,695 -The need is absolute. -Then we need English engineers. 1684 03:29:43,905 --> 03:29:47,574 No. Take English engineers and you take English government. 1685 03:29:47,867 --> 03:29:49,076 Take-- 1686 03:29:53,206 --> 03:29:54,414 Fire has broken out. 1687 03:29:54,624 --> 03:29:56,208 -Where? -The Jinsibi district. 1688 03:29:56,417 --> 03:29:59,294 -It is not a district that matters. -It will spread! 1689 03:29:59,587 --> 03:30:01,255 Then use the fire brigade! 1690 03:30:01,547 --> 03:30:04,424 We have tried, but there is no force in the water. 1691 03:30:04,634 --> 03:30:06,134 Then you must carry it. 1692 03:30:06,427 --> 03:30:10,764 -The Ruala do not carry water. -What else are they good for? 1693 03:30:23,069 --> 03:30:26,613 We will hear petitions this afternoon. 1694 03:30:29,450 --> 03:30:31,159 This afternoon! 1695 03:30:54,934 --> 03:30:58,937 -I'll take this up after the war. -Surely we should do something, sir. 1696 03:30:59,147 --> 03:31:03,108 -It's an old man's sport. -Are you an old man, sir? 1697 03:31:03,318 --> 03:31:06,194 All I can say is, sir, it's a heavy responsibility. 1698 03:31:07,655 --> 03:31:08,989 Sorry, sir. 1699 03:31:11,200 --> 03:31:12,868 Maybe it's the bulb. 1700 03:31:17,582 --> 03:31:18,707 No, sir. 1701 03:31:19,167 --> 03:31:20,834 It's the power. 1702 03:31:36,017 --> 03:31:37,392 They're leaving. 1703 03:31:38,102 --> 03:31:39,811 That's it, then. 1704 03:31:40,313 --> 03:31:42,397 Marvellous-looking beggars, aren't they? 1705 03:32:03,628 --> 03:32:06,505 Leave it, Lawrence. Come with me. 1706 03:32:06,756 --> 03:32:08,757 -Come where? -Back. 1707 03:32:13,221 --> 03:32:15,430 I know your heart. 1708 03:32:23,898 --> 03:32:25,524 What is it? 1709 03:32:26,526 --> 03:32:28,193 Is it this? 1710 03:32:30,905 --> 03:32:34,032 I tell you, this is nothing. 1711 03:32:47,213 --> 03:32:48,880 Is it the blood? 1712 03:32:49,674 --> 03:32:52,759 The desert has dried up more blood than you could think of. 1713 03:32:54,303 --> 03:32:58,682 I pray that I may never see the desert again. 1714 03:32:59,767 --> 03:33:01,059 Hear me, God. 1715 03:33:02,770 --> 03:33:06,606 You will come. There is only the desert for you. 1716 03:33:23,458 --> 03:33:24,749 What about you? 1717 03:33:25,751 --> 03:33:29,337 No, I shall stay here and learn politics. 1718 03:33:31,841 --> 03:33:33,258 A very low occupation. 1719 03:33:33,759 --> 03:33:36,803 I had not thought of it when I met you. 1720 03:33:45,771 --> 03:33:48,648 You have tried very hard to give us Damascus. 1721 03:33:48,858 --> 03:33:50,775 It's what I came for. 1722 03:33:54,280 --> 03:33:55,530 And then... 1723 03:33:57,950 --> 03:33:59,326 ...it would be something. 1724 03:33:59,535 --> 03:34:00,785 Yes. 1725 03:34:01,454 --> 03:34:02,662 Much. 1726 03:34:21,682 --> 03:34:24,142 -He is your friend? -Take your hand away. 1727 03:34:24,352 --> 03:34:25,644 -You love him. -I fear him. 1728 03:34:25,853 --> 03:34:27,687 Then why do you weep? 1729 03:34:28,022 --> 03:34:30,190 If I fear him, who love him... 1730 03:34:30,358 --> 03:34:33,318 ...how must he fear himself, who hates himself? 1731 03:34:33,694 --> 03:34:36,821 Take your hand away, Howeitat! 1732 03:34:39,200 --> 03:34:42,536 So you are not yet entirely politician. 1733 03:34:42,703 --> 03:34:43,787 Not yet. 1734 03:34:44,038 --> 03:34:48,375 Well, these are new tricks, and I am an old dog. 1735 03:34:48,918 --> 03:34:50,835 And Allah be thanked. 1736 03:34:51,337 --> 03:34:52,712 I'll tell thee what... 1737 03:34:53,005 --> 03:34:56,341 ...being an Arab will be thornier than you suppose, Harith. 1738 03:35:17,822 --> 03:35:21,116 In all my years, I've never seen anything like it. 1739 03:35:21,409 --> 03:35:24,244 It comes within the jurisdiction of the Arab Council. 1740 03:35:24,453 --> 03:35:28,832 Under the circumstances, I think I must take over. Immediately. 1741 03:35:29,083 --> 03:35:32,085 Under any circumstances at all, you must obey your orders. 1742 03:35:32,378 --> 03:35:33,920 No, sir, I will not. 1743 03:35:34,880 --> 03:35:36,464 Control yourself. 1744 03:35:36,966 --> 03:35:40,093 Now, go over to the town hall and see what they say. 1745 03:35:41,053 --> 03:35:43,346 We did what we could in the civic hospitals. 1746 03:35:43,556 --> 03:35:46,391 But you forgot the Turkish Military Hospital. 1747 03:35:46,767 --> 03:35:51,229 It has 600 beds. There are about 2000 Turkish wounded in it. 1748 03:35:51,897 --> 03:35:56,484 All of whom are the responsibility of your precious Arab Council. 1749 03:36:03,242 --> 03:36:04,659 What's it like? 1750 03:37:21,529 --> 03:37:23,571 This is outrageous! 1751 03:37:24,699 --> 03:37:26,699 Outrageous! 1752 03:37:32,665 --> 03:37:34,874 You filthy little wog! 1753 03:37:45,386 --> 03:37:49,472 My friend Lawrence, if I may call him that. 1754 03:37:49,724 --> 03:37:52,183 "My friend Lawrence." 1755 03:37:52,393 --> 03:37:57,021 How many men will claim the right to use that phrase? How proudly. 1756 03:37:57,231 --> 03:37:59,899 He longs for the greenness of his native land. 1757 03:38:00,109 --> 03:38:05,238 He pines for the Gothic cottages of Surrey, is it not? 1758 03:38:05,489 --> 03:38:09,075 Already in imagination, he catches trout... 1759 03:38:09,368 --> 03:38:12,871 ...and all the activities of the English gentleman. 1760 03:38:13,080 --> 03:38:16,583 That's me you're describing, sir, not Colonel Lawrence. 1761 03:38:17,501 --> 03:38:19,711 You're promoted colonel. 1762 03:38:19,920 --> 03:38:22,380 Yes. What for? 1763 03:38:22,590 --> 03:38:25,759 Take the honour, colonel. Be a little kind. 1764 03:38:26,010 --> 03:38:30,096 As a colonel, you'll have a cabin to yourself on the boat home. 1765 03:38:30,723 --> 03:38:33,016 Then, thank you. 1766 03:38:37,229 --> 03:38:38,438 Well, then... 1767 03:38:39,064 --> 03:38:40,106 ...Godspeed. 1768 03:38:40,608 --> 03:38:44,527 There's nothing further here for a warrior. 1769 03:38:44,779 --> 03:38:48,907 We drive bargains. Old men's work. 1770 03:38:49,116 --> 03:38:51,451 Young men make wars, and the virtues of war... 1771 03:38:51,619 --> 03:38:53,536 ...are the virtues of young men. 1772 03:38:53,788 --> 03:38:57,248 Courage and hope for the future. 1773 03:38:57,458 --> 03:39:00,126 Then old men make the peace. 1774 03:39:01,253 --> 03:39:04,130 And the vices of peace are the vices of old men. 1775 03:39:04,340 --> 03:39:06,800 Mistrust and caution. 1776 03:39:07,760 --> 03:39:09,594 It must be so. 1777 03:39:25,986 --> 03:39:30,615 What I owe you is beyond evaluation. 1778 03:39:40,334 --> 03:39:44,003 The powerhouse, the telephone exchange, these I concede. 1779 03:39:44,296 --> 03:39:46,005 The pumping plant I must retain. 1780 03:39:46,215 --> 03:39:48,800 If you retain it, there will be no water. 1781 03:39:49,009 --> 03:39:52,720 -I shall be glad of assistance. -Then you must bring down your flag. 1782 03:39:53,013 --> 03:39:56,850 I shall not, and if your men attempt it, my men will resist it. 1783 03:39:57,142 --> 03:39:58,810 -Have you men? -Enough for that. 1784 03:39:59,019 --> 03:40:01,396 It's a thing that makes an ugly incident. 1785 03:40:01,730 --> 03:40:03,606 I'm sure your government... 1786 03:40:03,858 --> 03:40:07,694 ...does not wish to appear at the peace conference as an aggressor. 1787 03:40:09,989 --> 03:40:11,489 I say! 1788 03:40:12,867 --> 03:40:14,826 It's Lawrence, isn't it? 1789 03:40:17,162 --> 03:40:19,372 May I shake your hand, sir? 1790 03:40:20,541 --> 03:40:23,167 Just want to be able to say I'd done it, sir. 1791 03:40:26,755 --> 03:40:29,007 Haven't we met before? 1792 03:40:29,216 --> 03:40:30,842 Don't think so, sir. 1793 03:40:31,051 --> 03:40:33,761 No, no, sir, I should remember that. 1794 03:40:39,018 --> 03:40:43,187 It is widely known the Arab Council took power in my name. 1795 03:40:43,397 --> 03:40:45,398 They have no power. lt's illusory. 1796 03:40:45,649 --> 03:40:48,067 Illusions can be very powerful. 1797 03:40:48,444 --> 03:40:50,069 Particularly... 1798 03:40:50,946 --> 03:40:53,573 ...when they take this form. 1799 03:40:55,743 --> 03:40:58,745 The world is delighted at the picture of Damascus... 1800 03:40:58,954 --> 03:41:00,914 ...liberated by the Arab army. 1801 03:41:01,457 --> 03:41:04,542 Led, may I remind you, by a British-serving officer. 1802 03:41:05,085 --> 03:41:10,089 Ah, yes. But then Lawrence is a sword with two edges. 1803 03:41:10,382 --> 03:41:13,426 We are equally glad to be rid of him, are we not? 1804 03:41:17,056 --> 03:41:19,265 I thought l was a hard man, sir. 1805 03:41:20,100 --> 03:41:22,393 You are merely a general. 1806 03:41:24,939 --> 03:41:26,439 I must be a king. 1807 03:41:29,443 --> 03:41:31,319 Excuse me, sir. 1808 03:41:45,960 --> 03:41:47,251 Well? 1809 03:41:48,128 --> 03:41:49,504 Well... 1810 03:41:49,964 --> 03:41:52,840 ...it seems we're to have a British waterworks... 1811 03:41:53,092 --> 03:41:55,301 ...with an Arab flag on it. 1812 03:41:55,511 --> 03:41:57,470 Do you think it was worth it? 1813 03:41:57,638 --> 03:42:00,306 Not my business. Thank God I'm a soldier. 1814 03:42:00,641 --> 03:42:01,808 Yes, sir. 1815 03:42:02,101 --> 03:42:03,726 So you keep saying. 1816 03:42:03,936 --> 03:42:05,520 You, I suspect... 1817 03:42:06,021 --> 03:42:09,941 ...are chief architect of this compromise. 1818 03:42:10,359 --> 03:42:13,486 -What do you think? -Me, Your Highness? 1819 03:42:14,154 --> 03:42:18,449 On the whole, I wish I'd stayed in Tunbridge Wells. 1820 03:42:56,488 --> 03:42:59,532 Well, sir. Going home. 1821 03:43:01,869 --> 03:43:03,536 Home, sir. 1822 03:43:27,736 --> 03:43:30,936 Ripped by HighCode 1822 03:43:31,305 --> 03:43:37,642 Please rate this subtitle at www.osdb.link/vbv5 Help other users to choose the best subtitles