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Canadian Reporter:
Lieutenant Brown, the readers of the Toronto Star want to know about Canada's newest Ace. Roy Brown:
What is there to know? I'm just a technician; I change things. Canadian Reporter:
Change things? Roy Brown:
Put a plane in front of me, with a man in it, I change them into a wreck and a corpse. Canadian Reporter:
Well... well how do you like France? Roy Brown:
It's a nice country, isn't it? Lots of my friends will be staying after the war. Canadian Reporter:
Ah... how do you like the French girls, Lieutenant? Roy Brown:
With both their arms and legs, I think. Canadian Reporter:
[coughs]
... the German planes, are they dangerous? Roy Brown:
The Germans, they're dangerous. The planes, they're dangerous too. They kill as many Germans as we do, the same way ours do us. Canadian Reporter:
But now that we outnumber The Germans, we're... we're winning, aren't we? Roy Brown:
How in Christ's name do I know? I go out in the morning and try to stay alive till I run out of petrol. One day I come back and they tell me I'm an Ace. Canadian Reporter:
But you've... you've shot down eight German planes! Roy Brown:
Is it eight? God Almighty I thought it was a hundred. I keep shooting him down but he's always up there in the morning. How the hell do I know who's winning the war? One of these mornings... Canadian Reporter:
One of these mornings, it'll all be over. Roy Brown:
How can it be over? There's still some of us alive. They wouldn't end it with any of us alive, now would they?
Lieutenant Brown, the readers of the Toronto Star want to know about Canada's newest Ace. Roy Brown:
What is there to know? I'm just a technician; I change things. Canadian Reporter:
Change things? Roy Brown:
Put a plane in front of me, with a man in it, I change them into a wreck and a corpse. Canadian Reporter:
Well... well how do you like France? Roy Brown:
It's a nice country, isn't it? Lots of my friends will be staying after the war. Canadian Reporter:
Ah... how do you like the French girls, Lieutenant? Roy Brown:
With both their arms and legs, I think. Canadian Reporter:
[coughs]
... the German planes, are they dangerous? Roy Brown:
The Germans, they're dangerous. The planes, they're dangerous too. They kill as many Germans as we do, the same way ours do us. Canadian Reporter:
But now that we outnumber The Germans, we're... we're winning, aren't we? Roy Brown:
How in Christ's name do I know? I go out in the morning and try to stay alive till I run out of petrol. One day I come back and they tell me I'm an Ace. Canadian Reporter:
But you've... you've shot down eight German planes! Roy Brown:
Is it eight? God Almighty I thought it was a hundred. I keep shooting him down but he's always up there in the morning. How the hell do I know who's winning the war? One of these mornings... Canadian Reporter:
One of these mornings, it'll all be over. Roy Brown:
How can it be over? There's still some of us alive. They wouldn't end it with any of us alive, now would they?
Full Transcript
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Mr Brown
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some of the squadron feel that your gesture the other evening
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was disrespectful to Major Hawker
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Well they're wrong
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But that doesn't matter I'll stay clear of the mess
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so they can go on toasting von Richthofen and his gang
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I very much doubt they'll be toasting the Germans again
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That's one point you made It wasn't my point sir
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Lanoe Hawker and I
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We believed in the same things
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We belong to that other world that you have no use for
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And now I wonder who will see us through
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Movie Summary
The story of Manfred von Richthofen, the German air ace during World War I and his struggle with the enemy aces and some jealous German officers.
