1 00:07:54,949 --> 00:07:57,702 He was the most extraordinary man I ever knew. 2 00:07:57,910 --> 00:08:00,037 Did you know him well? 3 00:08:00,454 --> 00:08:01,873 I knew him. 4 00:08:03,416 --> 00:08:05,960 Well, nil nisi bonum. 5 00:08:06,252 --> 00:08:08,170 But did he really deserve... 6 00:08:08,379 --> 00:08:10,673 a place in here? 7 00:08:25,563 --> 00:08:28,482 Lord Allenby, could you give a few words about Lawrence? 8 00:08:28,733 --> 00:08:30,735 What, more words? 9 00:08:32,486 --> 00:08:34,405 The revolt in the desert... 10 00:08:34,614 --> 00:08:38,284 played a decisive part in the Middle Eastern campaign. 11 00:08:38,576 --> 00:08:41,287 Yes, sir, but about Colonel Lawrence himself. 12 00:08:42,079 --> 00:08:45,917 No, no. I didn't know him well, you know. 13 00:08:48,961 --> 00:08:52,131 Mr. Bentley, you know as much about Lawrence as anybody. 14 00:08:52,340 --> 00:08:55,092 Yes, it was my privilege to know him. 15 00:08:55,343 --> 00:08:57,970 And to make him known to the world. 16 00:08:58,262 --> 00:09:02,600 He was a poet, a scholar and a mighty warrior. 17 00:09:02,850 --> 00:09:03,935 Thank you. 18 00:09:04,101 --> 00:09:08,814 He was also the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum and Bailey. 19 00:09:09,231 --> 00:09:10,942 You, sir. Who are you? 20 00:09:11,233 --> 00:09:13,444 My name is Jackson Bentley. 21 00:09:13,945 --> 00:09:17,823 I overheard your last remark and take the gravest exception. 22 00:09:18,115 --> 00:09:20,326 - He was a great man. - Did you know him? 23 00:09:20,618 --> 00:09:22,620 No, I can't claim to have known him. 24 00:09:22,787 --> 00:09:25,289 I had the honor to shake his hand in Damascus. 25 00:09:25,539 --> 00:09:27,166 Knew him? I never knew him. 26 00:09:27,458 --> 00:09:30,836 He had some minor function on my staff in Cairo. 27 00:09:50,648 --> 00:09:52,191 Michael George Hartley... 28 00:09:52,483 --> 00:09:55,778 this is a nasty, dark little room. 29 00:09:55,987 --> 00:09:57,029 That's right. 30 00:09:57,321 --> 00:09:59,490 We are not happy in it. 31 00:09:59,699 --> 00:10:03,577 I am. It's better than a nasty, dark little trench. 32 00:10:03,828 --> 00:10:07,206 - Then you're a big noble fellow. - That's right. 33 00:10:08,666 --> 00:10:12,420 Here is William Potter with my newspaper. 34 00:10:12,837 --> 00:10:15,172 - Here you are, tosh. - Thanks. 35 00:10:17,299 --> 00:10:20,344 Would you care for one of Corporal Hartley's cigarettes? 36 00:10:21,887 --> 00:10:24,181 - Is it there? - Of course. 37 00:10:24,390 --> 00:10:26,017 Headlines. 38 00:10:26,517 --> 00:10:29,729 But I bet it isn't mentioned in the Times. 39 00:10:30,354 --> 00:10:34,734 "Bedouin tribes attack Turkish stronghold." 40 00:10:35,693 --> 00:10:39,363 I bet that no one in this headquarters even knows it happened. 41 00:10:39,613 --> 00:10:43,325 Or would care if it did. Allow me to ignite your cigarette. 42 00:10:45,870 --> 00:10:47,872 - Mr. Lawrence? - Yes. 43 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,374 - Flimsy, sir. - Thank you. 44 00:10:57,381 --> 00:11:00,718 You'll do that once too often. It's only flesh and blood. 45 00:11:00,968 --> 00:11:03,721 Michael George Hartley, you're a philosopher. 46 00:11:03,929 --> 00:11:05,848 And you're balmy! 47 00:11:19,945 --> 00:11:22,907 - It damn well hurts! - Certainly, it hurts. 48 00:11:23,407 --> 00:11:24,992 What's the trick, then? 49 00:11:25,242 --> 00:11:29,288 The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts. 50 00:11:29,580 --> 00:11:32,500 By the way, if Captain Gibbon should inquire for me... 51 00:11:32,750 --> 00:11:36,087 tell him I've gone for a chat with the general. 52 00:11:37,797 --> 00:11:40,007 - He's balmy. - He's all right. 53 00:11:45,930 --> 00:11:47,431 Lawrence. 54 00:11:48,265 --> 00:11:49,433 Yes? 55 00:11:49,683 --> 00:11:51,477 You're supposed to be... 56 00:11:51,894 --> 00:11:54,271 Do you usually wear your cap in the mess? 57 00:11:55,147 --> 00:11:56,190 Always. 58 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:58,609 You should be on duty. Where are you going? 59 00:11:58,901 --> 00:12:01,278 Mustn't talk shop, Freddie, not in the mess. 60 00:12:01,487 --> 00:12:03,447 I'm going for a powwow with the general. 61 00:12:03,656 --> 00:12:07,159 I'm not asking as your superior, but as the secretary of this mess. 62 00:12:07,451 --> 00:12:09,829 We don't want chaps in here who should be on duty. 63 00:12:10,121 --> 00:12:11,539 Where are you going? 64 00:12:14,458 --> 00:12:16,293 I must say, Lawrence! 65 00:12:16,502 --> 00:12:19,338 - Sorry. - You're a clown, Lawrence. 66 00:12:19,630 --> 00:12:22,967 Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers. 67 00:12:25,636 --> 00:12:26,637 Sorry. 68 00:12:27,471 --> 00:12:29,473 It's an intrigue, Dryden. 69 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,935 I do not propose to let an overweening, crass lieutenant... 70 00:12:33,144 --> 00:12:36,647 thumb his nose at his commander and get away with it. 71 00:12:36,939 --> 00:12:40,151 It doesn't sound as though he'd be any great loss, sir. 72 00:12:40,568 --> 00:12:43,821 Don't try that, Dryden. There's a principle involved. 73 00:12:44,029 --> 00:12:45,531 There is, indeed. 74 00:12:45,823 --> 00:12:47,700 He's of no use here in Cairo. 75 00:12:47,992 --> 00:12:51,036 He might be in Arabia. He knows his stuff, sir. 76 00:12:51,328 --> 00:12:52,830 Knows the books, you mean. 77 00:12:52,997 --> 00:12:56,167 I've already sent out Colonel Brighton, who's a soldier. 78 00:12:56,333 --> 00:12:59,170 If Brighton thinks we should send some arms, we will. 79 00:13:01,380 --> 00:13:03,007 Well, what more do you want? 80 00:13:03,215 --> 00:13:06,343 That there would be no question of Lieutenant Lawrence... 81 00:13:06,552 --> 00:13:08,512 giving military advice. 82 00:13:08,721 --> 00:13:10,681 By God, I should hope not. 83 00:13:10,890 --> 00:13:15,436 It's just that the Arab Bureau would like its own man on the spot to... 84 00:13:15,603 --> 00:13:16,687 To what? 85 00:13:16,979 --> 00:13:19,398 To make our own appraisal of the situation. 86 00:13:19,773 --> 00:13:23,694 I'll tell you, it's my considered opinion and that of my staff... 87 00:13:23,986 --> 00:13:26,739 that time spent on the Bedouin will be time wasted. 88 00:13:27,031 --> 00:13:29,366 They're a nation of sheep-stealers. 89 00:13:29,575 --> 00:13:32,494 They did attack Medina. 90 00:13:32,703 --> 00:13:35,039 And the Turks made mincemeat of them. 91 00:13:35,289 --> 00:13:36,624 We don't know that. 92 00:13:37,041 --> 00:13:41,378 We know that they didn't take it. A storm in a teacup, a sideshow. 93 00:13:42,046 --> 00:13:46,050 In my opinion, this whole theater of operations is a sideshow. 94 00:13:46,508 --> 00:13:49,637 The real war's being fought against Germans, not Turks. 95 00:13:49,887 --> 00:13:52,723 Not here, but on the Western front in the trenches. 96 00:13:52,932 --> 00:13:55,392 Your Bedouin Army, or whatever it calls itself... 97 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,229 would be a sideshow of a sideshow. 98 00:13:58,437 --> 00:14:01,065 Big things have small beginnings, sir. 99 00:14:02,441 --> 00:14:05,527 Does the Arab Bureau want a big thing in Arabia? 100 00:14:05,736 --> 00:14:10,241 Does the bureau think they'll sit down under us when this war is over? 101 00:14:10,449 --> 00:14:15,412 The bureau thinks the job of the moment, sir, is to win the war. 102 00:14:16,038 --> 00:14:18,290 Don't tell me my duty, Mr. Dryden. 103 00:14:19,166 --> 00:14:21,252 - Lawrence, sir. - Send him in. 104 00:14:23,170 --> 00:14:24,338 Good morning, sir. 105 00:14:24,588 --> 00:14:26,048 Salute. 106 00:14:28,175 --> 00:14:31,595 If you're insubordinate, I shall put you under arrest. 107 00:14:31,804 --> 00:14:33,597 - It's my manner. - Your what? 108 00:14:33,806 --> 00:14:36,684 My manner. It looks insubordinate, but it isn't. 109 00:14:37,101 --> 00:14:40,938 I can't make out whether you're bad-mannered or just half-witted. 110 00:14:41,272 --> 00:14:44,149 - I have the same problem, sir. - Shut up. 111 00:14:44,441 --> 00:14:47,778 The Arab Bureau thinks you would be of use to them in Arabia. 112 00:14:48,112 --> 00:14:49,697 Why, I can't imagine. 113 00:14:49,947 --> 00:14:52,366 You can't perform your present duties properly. 114 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,496 "I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city." 115 00:14:57,705 --> 00:14:59,957 - What? - Themistocles, sir. 116 00:15:00,165 --> 00:15:03,794 - A Greek philosopher. - I know you've been well-educated. 117 00:15:04,003 --> 00:15:06,297 It says so in your dossier. 118 00:15:08,632 --> 00:15:11,635 You're the kind of creature I can't stand, Lawrence. 119 00:15:13,846 --> 00:15:16,098 But I suppose I could be wrong. 120 00:15:16,682 --> 00:15:19,476 All right, Dryden. You can have him for six weeks. 121 00:15:19,643 --> 00:15:23,147 Who knows? It might even make a man of him. Come in! 122 00:15:25,149 --> 00:15:26,483 Yes, what is it? 123 00:15:26,734 --> 00:15:29,486 The convoy will be in Port Said tomorrow night. 124 00:15:29,695 --> 00:15:31,697 - Is that certain? - Yes, sir. 125 00:15:32,823 --> 00:15:34,992 There doesn't seem to be any artillery. 126 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,995 But there must be artillery! 127 00:15:40,748 --> 00:15:44,251 Sir, this is something of an expedition. 128 00:15:44,501 --> 00:15:48,672 He has to get to Yenbo, find a guide, find the Arabs and then get back. 129 00:15:48,922 --> 00:15:51,508 He can't do that in six weeks. 130 00:15:52,176 --> 00:15:54,845 - Two months, then. - Three. 131 00:15:55,346 --> 00:15:59,433 All right, three. Now, will you let me do some work, Mr. Dryden? 132 00:15:59,683 --> 00:16:01,352 Thank you, sir. 133 00:16:03,854 --> 00:16:07,191 I'd like to say, sir, that I am grateful for this. 134 00:16:07,399 --> 00:16:09,276 Shut up and get out. 135 00:16:15,366 --> 00:16:16,742 Sir? 136 00:16:22,373 --> 00:16:25,667 How can I fight a bloody war without bloody artillery? 137 00:16:26,668 --> 00:16:30,547 - How did you do it? - Might better ask why I bothered to. 138 00:16:30,798 --> 00:16:34,301 - Because I'm the man for the job. - I just wonder about that. 139 00:16:34,551 --> 00:16:37,429 Of course I am. What is the job, by the way? 140 00:16:37,721 --> 00:16:39,390 Find Prince Feisal. 141 00:16:39,681 --> 00:16:41,475 Good. And when I've found him? 142 00:16:43,435 --> 00:16:45,729 Find out what kind of a man he is. 143 00:16:45,979 --> 00:16:49,733 Find out what his intentions are. Not his immediate intentions. 144 00:16:49,900 --> 00:16:52,444 That is Colonel Brighton's business, not yours. 145 00:16:52,736 --> 00:16:56,990 I mean, his intentions in Arabia altogether. 146 00:17:00,244 --> 00:17:01,787 That's new. 147 00:17:03,330 --> 00:17:04,748 Where are they now? 148 00:17:04,915 --> 00:17:07,835 Anywhere within 300 miles of Medina. 149 00:17:08,085 --> 00:17:09,586 They're Hashemite Bedouins. 150 00:17:09,795 --> 00:17:13,465 They can cross 60 miles of desert in a day. 151 00:17:13,757 --> 00:17:15,717 Thanks. This is going to be fun. 152 00:17:16,427 --> 00:17:20,139 Lawrence, only two kinds of creature get fun in the desert: 153 00:17:20,431 --> 00:17:23,934 Bedouins and gods, and you're neither. Take it from me. 154 00:17:24,143 --> 00:17:27,438 For ordinary men, it's a burning fiery furnace. 155 00:17:27,729 --> 00:17:31,442 No, Dryden. It's going to be fun. 156 00:17:35,237 --> 00:17:38,532 It is recognized that you have a funny sense of fun. 157 00:18:54,525 --> 00:18:56,318 Here you may drink. 158 00:19:00,030 --> 00:19:01,323 One cup. 159 00:19:09,081 --> 00:19:10,707 You do not drink? 160 00:19:11,333 --> 00:19:12,376 No. 161 00:19:13,835 --> 00:19:15,462 I'll drink when you do. 162 00:19:16,380 --> 00:19:17,464 I am Bedu. 163 00:21:17,876 --> 00:21:22,089 Truly, now, you are a British officer? 164 00:21:22,339 --> 00:21:23,715 Yes. 165 00:21:24,466 --> 00:21:26,009 From Cairo? 166 00:21:26,468 --> 00:21:27,886 Yes. 167 00:21:28,512 --> 00:21:31,682 - You did not ride from Cairo? - No. 168 00:21:31,973 --> 00:21:35,852 Thank heaven. It's 900 miles. I came by boat. 169 00:21:36,353 --> 00:21:37,896 And before? 170 00:21:38,522 --> 00:21:41,024 From Britain? 171 00:21:41,358 --> 00:21:42,693 Yes. 172 00:21:44,027 --> 00:21:45,404 Truly? 173 00:21:45,904 --> 00:21:47,364 From Oxfordshire. 174 00:21:49,366 --> 00:21:50,867 Is that a desert country? 175 00:21:51,868 --> 00:21:56,206 No. A fat country. Fat people. 176 00:21:57,791 --> 00:21:59,000 You are not fat? 177 00:21:59,710 --> 00:22:00,877 No. 178 00:22:02,379 --> 00:22:04,005 I'm different. 179 00:22:32,033 --> 00:22:33,410 Here... 180 00:22:34,161 --> 00:22:35,662 take it. 181 00:22:36,538 --> 00:22:39,958 First I take you to Lord Feisal, then you give it to me. 182 00:22:40,250 --> 00:22:41,752 Take it now. 183 00:23:00,312 --> 00:23:01,938 Bedu food. 184 00:23:17,287 --> 00:23:18,622 Good. 185 00:23:18,872 --> 00:23:20,123 More? 186 00:24:09,005 --> 00:24:11,174 - Bedu. - Where? 187 00:24:32,153 --> 00:24:34,739 From here to Lord Feisal's camp is Harith country. 188 00:24:35,031 --> 00:24:36,199 Yes, I know. 189 00:24:36,408 --> 00:24:38,368 - I am not Harith. - No. 190 00:24:38,577 --> 00:24:41,204 Hazimi, of the Beni Salem. 191 00:25:17,490 --> 00:25:20,911 Put the right foot in tight. Lock it with your left foot. 192 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:22,746 When you are ready to go... 193 00:25:22,954 --> 00:25:26,082 hit her on the shoulder and say, "Hut-hut-hut." 194 00:25:43,725 --> 00:25:47,354 Today will be difficult, but tomorrow, good riding. 195 00:26:04,454 --> 00:26:07,958 I think we reach Masturah Well tomorrow. Yes. 196 00:26:08,124 --> 00:26:11,795 And from Masturah Well to Lord Feisal's camp, one day more. 197 00:26:12,003 --> 00:26:13,171 Now! 198 00:27:13,189 --> 00:27:14,524 Good? 199 00:27:14,733 --> 00:27:16,568 It's all right. 200 00:27:17,694 --> 00:27:19,904 This is a Harith well. 201 00:27:20,363 --> 00:27:22,866 The Harith are a dirty people. 202 00:28:44,447 --> 00:28:45,824 Turks? 203 00:29:12,308 --> 00:29:13,476 Bedu. 204 00:29:59,981 --> 00:30:01,733 Who is he? 205 00:30:55,411 --> 00:30:57,038 He is dead. 206 00:30:57,413 --> 00:30:58,915 Yes. 207 00:31:00,166 --> 00:31:01,251 Why? 208 00:31:04,128 --> 00:31:05,588 This is my well. 209 00:31:07,173 --> 00:31:08,800 I have drunk from it. 210 00:31:09,759 --> 00:31:11,552 You are welcome. 211 00:31:13,263 --> 00:31:14,597 He was my friend. 212 00:31:14,806 --> 00:31:17,642 - That? - Yes, that. 213 00:31:27,777 --> 00:31:30,989 - This pistol yours? - No, his. 214 00:31:47,672 --> 00:31:48,965 His? 215 00:31:49,590 --> 00:31:50,800 Mine. 216 00:31:51,467 --> 00:31:53,303 Then I will use it. 217 00:32:01,185 --> 00:32:03,479 Your friend... 218 00:32:05,481 --> 00:32:07,692 was a Hazimi of the Beni Salem. 219 00:32:07,984 --> 00:32:09,360 I know. 220 00:32:16,909 --> 00:32:18,202 I am Ali ibn el Kharish. 221 00:32:20,496 --> 00:32:21,831 I have heard of you. 222 00:32:23,541 --> 00:32:25,209 So... 223 00:32:27,545 --> 00:32:29,422 what was a Hazimi doing here? 224 00:32:29,672 --> 00:32:33,176 He was taking me to help Prince Feisal. 225 00:32:33,676 --> 00:32:37,138 - You've been sent from Cairo. - Yes. 226 00:32:37,638 --> 00:32:41,059 I have been in Cairo for my schooling. 227 00:32:42,018 --> 00:32:44,395 I can both read and write. 228 00:32:48,191 --> 00:32:52,153 My Lord Feisal already has an Englishman. 229 00:32:52,570 --> 00:32:54,197 What is your name? 230 00:32:55,156 --> 00:32:57,742 My name is for my friends. 231 00:33:03,206 --> 00:33:05,291 None of my friends is a murderer. 232 00:33:07,210 --> 00:33:09,253 You are angry, English. 233 00:33:18,054 --> 00:33:19,889 He was nothing. 234 00:33:20,181 --> 00:33:21,933 The well is everything. 235 00:33:22,975 --> 00:33:25,895 The Hazimi may not drink at our wells. 236 00:33:26,187 --> 00:33:27,772 He knew that. 237 00:33:30,108 --> 00:33:31,317 Salaam. 238 00:33:32,902 --> 00:33:34,570 Sherif Ali. 239 00:33:34,904 --> 00:33:37,990 So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe... 240 00:33:38,241 --> 00:33:40,743 so long will they be a little people... 241 00:33:40,993 --> 00:33:42,412 a silly people. 242 00:33:42,912 --> 00:33:47,083 Greedy, barbarous and cruel, as you are. 243 00:34:01,222 --> 00:34:02,265 Come. 244 00:34:03,307 --> 00:34:04,934 I will take you to Feisal. 245 00:34:05,101 --> 00:34:07,228 I do not want your company, sherif. 246 00:34:07,437 --> 00:34:10,773 Wadi Safra is another day from here. 247 00:34:11,107 --> 00:34:14,110 You will not find it, and you will die. 248 00:34:14,861 --> 00:34:18,281 I will find it with this. 249 00:34:26,873 --> 00:34:28,875 Good army compass. 250 00:34:29,459 --> 00:34:31,377 How if I take it? 251 00:34:31,794 --> 00:34:33,129 Then you would be a thief. 252 00:34:34,297 --> 00:34:35,631 Have you no fear, English? 253 00:34:36,549 --> 00:34:39,135 My fear is my concern. 254 00:34:39,635 --> 00:34:40,970 Truly. 255 00:34:44,974 --> 00:34:47,018 God be with you, English. 256 00:36:26,284 --> 00:36:28,077 Hey, you! 257 00:36:46,470 --> 00:36:49,599 - I've been waiting for you. - Did you know I was coming? 258 00:36:49,890 --> 00:36:52,101 I knew someone was coming. Feisal told me. 259 00:36:52,393 --> 00:36:53,769 How did he know? 260 00:36:53,978 --> 00:36:56,897 Not much happens within 50 miles of Feisal that he doesn't know. 261 00:36:57,106 --> 00:36:59,150 I'll give him that. No escort? 262 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,902 My guide was killed at the Masturah Well. 263 00:37:02,111 --> 00:37:04,989 - Turks? - No, an Arab. 264 00:37:05,281 --> 00:37:07,700 Bloody savages. 265 00:37:09,452 --> 00:37:12,538 - This is Wadi Safra, isn't it? - Yes, they're over there. 266 00:37:12,788 --> 00:37:15,333 Just a minute. What's your name and who sent you? 267 00:37:15,625 --> 00:37:19,629 Lawrence. I've been seconded to the Arab Bureau. 268 00:37:22,298 --> 00:37:24,634 What are you to do for the Arab Bureau? 269 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:29,805 Well, it's rather vague, sir. I'm to appreciate the situation. 270 00:37:30,514 --> 00:37:34,435 Well, that won't be difficult. The situation's bloody awful. 271 00:37:34,644 --> 00:37:37,813 Their morale, if they ever had any, which I doubt... 272 00:37:38,022 --> 00:37:42,026 the Turks knocked out of them in front of Medina, with howitzers. 273 00:37:42,318 --> 00:37:44,654 They're fading away by dozens every night. 274 00:37:44,945 --> 00:37:46,530 What I want to say is this: 275 00:37:46,822 --> 00:37:49,450 Wherever you are and whoever you are with... 276 00:37:49,659 --> 00:37:51,494 you're a British officer. Here's an order. 277 00:37:51,702 --> 00:37:55,498 When we get into that camp, you're to keep your mouth shut. 278 00:37:55,665 --> 00:37:59,669 - Do you understand what I'm saying? - I understand what you're saying. 279 00:37:59,835 --> 00:38:02,755 You'll make your appreciation and get back to... 280 00:38:05,341 --> 00:38:07,176 Oh, my God. 281 00:38:07,843 --> 00:38:09,679 Not again. 282 00:38:38,541 --> 00:38:41,711 I've told him! God knows I've told him. 283 00:38:41,919 --> 00:38:45,089 "Move South," I've said. "You're still in range." 284 00:38:47,049 --> 00:38:50,553 They simply will not understand what modern weapons do! 285 00:39:17,079 --> 00:39:20,458 Stand and fight. Stand and fight. 286 00:39:25,588 --> 00:39:27,047 Fire back at them. 287 00:40:39,036 --> 00:40:42,164 - Who are you? - Lieutenant Lawrence, sir. 288 00:40:42,414 --> 00:40:44,124 Seconded to the Arab Bureau. 289 00:40:44,333 --> 00:40:47,628 This is a bloody mess, sir. We'll have to move south. 290 00:40:47,837 --> 00:40:50,214 Yes, colonel, 50 miles south. 291 00:40:50,506 --> 00:40:53,342 You were right and I was wrong. 292 00:40:53,634 --> 00:40:55,678 We must take some thought for the wounded. 293 00:40:55,928 --> 00:40:59,181 - We can take care of them at Yenbo. - If they can get to Yenbo. 294 00:40:59,390 --> 00:41:00,933 They can hardly come with us. 295 00:41:01,183 --> 00:41:05,521 No. They must try to reach Yenbo. Lieutenant...? 296 00:41:06,355 --> 00:41:07,565 Lawrence. 297 00:41:07,857 --> 00:41:10,234 You understand, Lieutenant Lawrence... 298 00:41:10,442 --> 00:41:15,531 my people are unused to explosives and machines. 299 00:41:16,073 --> 00:41:20,035 First the guns, and now this. 300 00:42:14,632 --> 00:42:15,925 Cigarette? 301 00:42:16,133 --> 00:42:17,593 I'm sorry. 302 00:42:28,312 --> 00:42:30,272 Cigarette, Your Excellency? 303 00:42:31,148 --> 00:42:32,483 Umph off. 304 00:42:33,317 --> 00:42:36,153 Please, Your Excellency. Just one for two? 305 00:42:53,837 --> 00:42:55,005 Hold it, Jenkins! 306 00:42:59,343 --> 00:43:00,803 Jenkins! 307 00:43:10,187 --> 00:43:11,814 Lawrence? 308 00:43:14,191 --> 00:43:15,567 You have no servant. 309 00:43:15,818 --> 00:43:18,320 - I don't need a servant. - No? 310 00:43:18,570 --> 00:43:22,324 We can do everything. Light fires, cook food, wash clothes. 311 00:43:22,533 --> 00:43:24,535 - Yes, everything. - I don't doubt it. 312 00:43:24,827 --> 00:43:27,871 - It will be very nice for you. - I can't afford it. 313 00:43:51,020 --> 00:43:55,399 Recite, then, as much of the Koran as may be easy to you. 314 00:43:55,691 --> 00:43:59,361 God knoweth that there be some among you sick... 315 00:44:00,237 --> 00:44:05,617 while others travel through the Earth in quest for the bounties of God. 316 00:44:06,952 --> 00:44:11,206 Others do battle in his cause. 317 00:44:11,415 --> 00:44:15,753 Recite, therefore, as much as may be easy. 318 00:44:16,378 --> 00:44:19,214 And observe the prayers. 319 00:44:20,340 --> 00:44:25,846 This will be best and richest in the recompense. 320 00:44:26,972 --> 00:44:30,893 Seek ye the forgiveness of God. 321 00:44:31,643 --> 00:44:36,732 Verily, God is forgiving, merciful... 322 00:44:36,940 --> 00:44:38,400 Greetings, Ali. 323 00:44:38,567 --> 00:44:40,402 - My lord. - Sherif Ali. 324 00:44:40,611 --> 00:44:44,865 Lieutenant Lawrence, you have met Sherif Ali, I think. 325 00:44:45,741 --> 00:44:47,576 Yes, my lord. 326 00:44:50,079 --> 00:44:52,372 And now, Selim, "The Brightness." 327 00:44:52,581 --> 00:44:54,917 "By the noonday brightness... 328 00:44:55,125 --> 00:44:57,252 and by the night when it darkeneth... 329 00:44:57,503 --> 00:44:59,922 thy Lord hath not forsaken thee... 330 00:45:00,172 --> 00:45:02,591 neither hath He been displeased. 331 00:45:02,883 --> 00:45:07,137 And surely the future shall be better for thee than the past." 332 00:45:07,429 --> 00:45:10,933 "And in the end shall your Lord be bounteous to thee... 333 00:45:11,100 --> 00:45:13,435 and thou be satisfied." 334 00:45:15,395 --> 00:45:16,772 So? 335 00:45:18,690 --> 00:45:19,942 Yes, colonel. 336 00:45:20,317 --> 00:45:24,029 - I want a decision, sir. - You want me to fall back on Yenbo. 337 00:45:24,279 --> 00:45:26,949 Well, you're not doing much good here, sir. 338 00:45:27,157 --> 00:45:31,120 I'm sorry to rub it in, sir, but we can't supply you here. 339 00:45:31,328 --> 00:45:33,288 You could supply us through Aqaba! 340 00:45:33,705 --> 00:45:35,290 Aqaba! 341 00:45:36,125 --> 00:45:38,794 If you can get ahold of Aqaba, we can supply you. 342 00:45:38,961 --> 00:45:40,963 - But you can't! - You could. 343 00:45:41,463 --> 00:45:44,049 You mean, the navy? 344 00:45:44,967 --> 00:45:48,303 The Turks have 12-inch guns at Aqaba, sir. 345 00:45:48,512 --> 00:45:50,514 Can you imagine what that means? 346 00:45:50,806 --> 00:45:52,474 Yes, I can imagine. 347 00:45:52,683 --> 00:45:56,937 Put that out of your mind, sir. The navy's got other things to do. 348 00:45:57,146 --> 00:45:59,648 Oh, yes. Protecting the Suez Canal. 349 00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:04,069 The one essential sector of this front is and must be the canal. 350 00:46:04,319 --> 00:46:06,155 You can see that, sir, surely. 351 00:46:06,321 --> 00:46:09,324 I see that the canal is an essential British interest. 352 00:46:09,491 --> 00:46:11,535 It is of little consequence to us. 353 00:46:12,035 --> 00:46:14,079 I must ask you not to speak like that. 354 00:46:14,329 --> 00:46:16,999 British and Arab interests are one and the same. 355 00:46:18,333 --> 00:46:20,002 Possibly. 356 00:46:21,670 --> 00:46:23,964 Upon my word, sir, you're ungrateful. 357 00:46:24,173 --> 00:46:26,842 Fall back on Yenbo and we will give you equipment. 358 00:46:27,009 --> 00:46:29,219 Give you arms, advice, training, everything. 359 00:46:29,511 --> 00:46:32,347 - Guns? - A modern rifle for every man. 360 00:46:32,598 --> 00:46:35,517 No. Guns. Artillery. 361 00:46:35,726 --> 00:46:39,021 Guns like the Turkish guns at Medina. 362 00:46:39,188 --> 00:46:42,274 Yes, give us guns and keep the training. 363 00:46:42,524 --> 00:46:46,195 Your men need training far more than guns, sir. 364 00:46:46,486 --> 00:46:48,113 English will teach Bedu to fight? 365 00:46:48,363 --> 00:46:52,492 We will teach them, Sherif Ali, to fight a modern mechanized army. 366 00:46:54,119 --> 00:46:58,248 Yes, lieutenant? What do you think about Yenbo? 367 00:47:02,085 --> 00:47:04,922 I think it is far from Damascus. 368 00:47:05,214 --> 00:47:08,550 We'll have you in Damascus, sir. Never fear. 369 00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:11,762 Have you been in Damascus, Mr. Lawrence? 370 00:47:12,387 --> 00:47:13,764 Yes, my lord. 371 00:47:14,806 --> 00:47:16,433 It is beautiful, is it not? 372 00:47:16,725 --> 00:47:18,393 - Very. - That will do, Lawrence. 373 00:47:18,644 --> 00:47:22,731 Dreaming won't get you to Damascus, but discipline will. 374 00:47:23,023 --> 00:47:28,070 Look, Great Britain is a small country, much smaller than yours. 375 00:47:28,278 --> 00:47:30,572 Small population compared with some. 376 00:47:30,781 --> 00:47:33,951 It's small, but it's great. And why? 377 00:47:34,243 --> 00:47:37,079 - Because it has guns. - Because it has discipline. 378 00:47:37,287 --> 00:47:39,581 Because it has a navy, because of this... 379 00:47:39,748 --> 00:47:41,458 the English go where they please... 380 00:47:41,750 --> 00:47:44,294 and strike where they please. This makes them great. 381 00:47:44,586 --> 00:47:46,672 - Right. - Mr. Lawrence, that will do! 382 00:47:46,922 --> 00:47:49,174 Lawrence is not your military adviser. 383 00:47:49,424 --> 00:47:51,551 But I would like to hear his opinion. 384 00:47:51,969 --> 00:47:54,179 Damn it! Who do you take your orders from? 385 00:47:54,429 --> 00:47:57,849 From Lord Feisal, in Feisal's tent. 386 00:47:58,100 --> 00:48:03,355 Old fool! Why turn from him to him? They are master and man. 387 00:48:04,481 --> 00:48:08,151 My lord, I think... 388 00:48:09,111 --> 00:48:11,280 I think your book is right. 389 00:48:11,613 --> 00:48:15,993 The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped. 390 00:48:16,285 --> 00:48:18,287 On this ocean, the Bedu go where they please... 391 00:48:18,453 --> 00:48:19,955 and strike where they please. 392 00:48:20,205 --> 00:48:22,457 This is the way the Bedu has always fought. 393 00:48:22,708 --> 00:48:25,627 You're famed through the world for fighting this way. 394 00:48:25,877 --> 00:48:28,005 And this is the way you should fight now. 395 00:48:28,297 --> 00:48:29,840 I don't know. 396 00:48:30,132 --> 00:48:32,342 I'm sorry, sir, but you're wrong. 397 00:48:32,968 --> 00:48:37,306 Fall back on Yenbo, the Arab Rising becomes one unit in the British army. 398 00:48:37,514 --> 00:48:39,683 - What is this to you? - You're a traitor. 399 00:48:39,975 --> 00:48:41,977 No, colonel. 400 00:48:42,227 --> 00:48:45,480 He is a young man, and young men are passionate. 401 00:48:45,731 --> 00:48:48,817 They must say their say. 402 00:48:49,985 --> 00:48:54,990 But wiser people must decide. I know you are right. 403 00:48:55,157 --> 00:48:57,701 Very well. When shall we move? The sooner the better. 404 00:48:57,993 --> 00:49:00,495 You'll lose another 50 men tonight. 405 00:49:02,539 --> 00:49:04,499 You tread heavily... 406 00:49:05,542 --> 00:49:08,211 but you speak the truth. 407 00:49:09,838 --> 00:49:13,342 I will give you my answer tomorrow. And now... 408 00:49:13,717 --> 00:49:15,510 it is late. 409 00:49:31,234 --> 00:49:33,737 Colonel Brighton means to put my men... 410 00:49:33,904 --> 00:49:36,782 under European officers, does he not? 411 00:49:37,032 --> 00:49:38,909 In effect, my lord, yes. 412 00:49:39,201 --> 00:49:41,203 And I must do it... 413 00:49:41,787 --> 00:49:45,540 because the Turks have European guns. 414 00:49:45,791 --> 00:49:48,460 But I fear to do it... 415 00:49:49,378 --> 00:49:51,588 upon my soul I do. 416 00:49:53,548 --> 00:49:57,719 The English have a great hunger for desolate places. 417 00:49:57,928 --> 00:50:01,098 I fear they hunger for Arabia. 418 00:50:01,390 --> 00:50:03,266 Then you must deny it to them. 419 00:50:03,558 --> 00:50:07,104 You are an Englishman. Are you not loyal to England? 420 00:50:07,729 --> 00:50:10,690 To England and to other things. 421 00:50:10,941 --> 00:50:13,568 To England and Arabia both? 422 00:50:13,777 --> 00:50:15,570 And is that possible? 423 00:50:22,327 --> 00:50:26,581 I think you are another of these desert-loving English. 424 00:50:26,790 --> 00:50:28,917 Doughty, Stanhope... 425 00:50:29,501 --> 00:50:31,837 Gordon of Khartoum. 426 00:50:32,087 --> 00:50:34,339 No Arab loves the desert. 427 00:50:34,589 --> 00:50:39,594 We love water and green trees. There is nothing in the desert. 428 00:50:40,637 --> 00:50:43,098 And no man needs nothing. 429 00:50:46,226 --> 00:50:49,813 Or is it that you think we are something you can play with... 430 00:50:50,105 --> 00:50:53,650 because we are a little people, a silly people... 431 00:50:53,942 --> 00:50:58,113 greedy, barbarous and cruel? 432 00:50:58,447 --> 00:51:01,741 Or do you know, lieutenant, in the Arab city of Cordoba... 433 00:51:01,950 --> 00:51:04,453 were two miles of lighting in the streets... 434 00:51:04,661 --> 00:51:06,371 when London was a village. 435 00:51:06,621 --> 00:51:09,458 Yes, you were great. 436 00:51:09,666 --> 00:51:11,793 Nine centuries ago. 437 00:51:12,043 --> 00:51:14,254 Time to be great again, my lord. 438 00:51:14,463 --> 00:51:17,757 Which is why my father made this war upon the Turks. 439 00:51:17,966 --> 00:51:21,761 My father, Mr. Lawrence, not the English. 440 00:51:22,971 --> 00:51:25,265 But my father is old... 441 00:51:26,266 --> 00:51:27,976 and I... 442 00:51:29,644 --> 00:51:33,356 I long for the vanished gardens of Cordoba. 443 00:51:35,192 --> 00:51:38,153 However, before the gardens must come the fighting. 444 00:51:39,488 --> 00:51:43,366 To be great again, it seems that we need the English... 445 00:51:43,658 --> 00:51:44,659 or... 446 00:51:44,910 --> 00:51:46,328 Or? 447 00:51:46,828 --> 00:51:50,499 What no man can provide, Mr. Lawrence. 448 00:51:50,707 --> 00:51:53,168 We need a miracle. 449 00:54:58,478 --> 00:54:59,521 Aqaba. 450 00:55:03,024 --> 00:55:04,401 Aqaba. 451 00:55:05,235 --> 00:55:06,861 From the land. 452 00:55:07,862 --> 00:55:09,614 You are mad. 453 00:55:10,031 --> 00:55:14,411 To come to Aqaba by land we should have to cross the Nefud Desert. 454 00:55:14,619 --> 00:55:15,870 That's right. 455 00:55:16,204 --> 00:55:18,373 The Nefud cannot be crossed. 456 00:55:18,581 --> 00:55:20,500 I'll cross it if you will. 457 00:55:20,709 --> 00:55:24,879 You? It takes more than a compass, Englishman. 458 00:55:25,088 --> 00:55:27,882 The Nefud is the worst place God created. 459 00:55:28,133 --> 00:55:32,137 I can't answer for the place. Only for myself. 460 00:55:32,554 --> 00:55:34,055 Fifty men? 461 00:55:34,305 --> 00:55:36,891 Fifty? Against Aqaba? 462 00:55:37,100 --> 00:55:39,519 If 50 men came out of the Nefud... 463 00:55:39,728 --> 00:55:42,772 they would be 50 men other men might join. 464 00:55:43,565 --> 00:55:45,900 The Howeitat are there, I hear. 465 00:55:46,234 --> 00:55:49,237 The Howeitat are brigands. They'll sell themselves to anyone. 466 00:55:49,529 --> 00:55:51,740 - Good fighters, though. - Good... 467 00:55:52,741 --> 00:55:56,119 Yes. There are guns at Aqaba. 468 00:55:56,411 --> 00:56:00,540 They face the sea, Sherif Ali, and cannot be turned around. 469 00:56:00,749 --> 00:56:04,461 From the landward side, there are no guns at Aqaba. 470 00:56:04,753 --> 00:56:09,758 With good reason. It cannot be approached from the landward side. 471 00:56:09,966 --> 00:56:12,594 Certainly the Turks don't dream of it. 472 00:56:16,055 --> 00:56:18,057 Aqaba's over there. 473 00:56:20,602 --> 00:56:22,812 It's only a matter of going. 474 00:56:23,938 --> 00:56:26,274 You are mad. 475 00:56:33,448 --> 00:56:35,950 And where are you going, lieutenant? 476 00:56:37,285 --> 00:56:39,329 With 50 of my men. 477 00:56:40,955 --> 00:56:42,165 To work your miracle. 478 00:56:42,499 --> 00:56:46,795 Blasphemy is a bad beginning for such a journey. 479 00:56:47,504 --> 00:56:50,131 - Who told you? - Ali did. 480 00:56:50,298 --> 00:56:52,008 Why not you? 481 00:56:53,635 --> 00:56:56,638 You are falling back from Yenbo, sir? 482 00:56:56,888 --> 00:56:59,140 Yes, I must. 483 00:56:59,390 --> 00:57:02,477 But I will spare these to you. 484 00:57:04,354 --> 00:57:07,482 Did Ali break confidence to tell me? 485 00:57:08,107 --> 00:57:12,028 Sherif Ali owes you his allegiance, my lord. 486 00:57:12,987 --> 00:57:15,490 Yet you did not tell Colonel Brighton. 487 00:57:15,698 --> 00:57:16,741 No. 488 00:57:28,628 --> 00:57:30,630 Since you do know... 489 00:57:31,130 --> 00:57:34,676 we can claim to arrive in the name of Feisal of Mecca. 490 00:57:35,051 --> 00:57:38,346 Yes, Lieutenant Lawrence, you may claim it. 491 00:57:39,180 --> 00:57:42,267 But in whose name do you ride? 492 01:00:10,832 --> 01:00:13,501 Sherif, I caught them. They have tracked us. 493 01:00:13,793 --> 01:00:16,004 They were here. I caught them. 494 01:00:16,170 --> 01:00:19,090 Why are you here? Boy! 495 01:00:19,340 --> 01:00:21,217 To serve Lord Lawrence, sherif. 496 01:00:21,509 --> 01:00:24,095 This is true, Lawrence. They do wish it. 497 01:00:24,345 --> 01:00:26,180 You have been tracking us. 498 01:00:26,848 --> 01:00:29,100 - You were told to stay. - No, sherif. 499 01:00:29,350 --> 01:00:31,394 Our camel strayed. We followed her. 500 01:00:31,686 --> 01:00:34,564 She led us here to be Lord Lawrence's servants. 501 01:00:34,856 --> 01:00:37,442 - It is the will of Allah. - Blasphemy. 502 01:00:37,692 --> 01:00:38,943 Don't do that. 503 01:00:39,402 --> 01:00:44,115 No, Lawrence, these are not servants. These are outcasts, parent-less. 504 01:00:44,741 --> 01:00:47,452 Be warned. They are not suitable. 505 01:00:47,702 --> 01:00:51,456 They sound very suitable. You can ride with the baggage. 506 01:00:53,082 --> 01:00:56,544 These are not servants. These are worshippers. 507 01:01:00,548 --> 01:01:03,384 One shilling, every week? 508 01:01:03,593 --> 01:01:05,219 That is fair. 509 01:01:05,887 --> 01:01:07,221 - Each? - No. 510 01:01:07,430 --> 01:01:09,057 - That is too much. - All right. 511 01:01:17,648 --> 01:01:21,861 They will be lucky for you. Allah favors the compassionate. 512 01:01:35,750 --> 01:01:37,502 There is the railway. 513 01:01:38,377 --> 01:01:41,297 And that is the desert. 514 01:01:42,757 --> 01:01:46,469 From here until the other side, no water but what we carry. 515 01:01:46,677 --> 01:01:49,972 For the camels, no water at all. 516 01:01:50,598 --> 01:01:52,767 If the camels die... 517 01:01:54,102 --> 01:01:55,436 we die. 518 01:01:56,395 --> 01:01:59,190 And in 20 days they will start to die. 519 01:02:04,695 --> 01:02:07,949 There's no time to waste, then, is there? 520 01:04:40,059 --> 01:04:41,769 I was thinking. 521 01:04:41,978 --> 01:04:43,688 You were drifting. 522 01:04:45,648 --> 01:04:49,318 Yes. It will not happen again. 523 01:04:49,610 --> 01:04:53,281 Be warned, you were drifting. 524 01:04:53,948 --> 01:04:55,992 It will not happen again. 525 01:05:58,137 --> 01:06:00,014 That water is wasted. 526 01:06:05,436 --> 01:06:07,730 From now on, we must travel by night... 527 01:06:08,022 --> 01:06:10,900 and rest while it is too hot to travel. 528 01:06:11,192 --> 01:06:13,569 A few hours each day. 529 01:06:15,404 --> 01:06:17,365 Why don't we start now? 530 01:06:17,531 --> 01:06:20,242 No. We will rest now. 531 01:06:22,078 --> 01:06:23,204 Three hours. 532 01:06:23,454 --> 01:06:24,872 Fine. 533 01:06:25,456 --> 01:06:26,916 I'll wake you. 534 01:08:45,429 --> 01:08:47,014 Do we rest here? 535 01:08:47,223 --> 01:08:50,392 There is no rest now short of water. 536 01:08:50,684 --> 01:08:52,686 The other side of that. 537 01:08:53,854 --> 01:08:56,023 And how much of that is there? 538 01:08:56,357 --> 01:08:57,900 I'm not sure. 539 01:08:59,026 --> 01:09:03,364 But however much, it must be crossed before tomorrow's sun gets up. 540 01:09:04,448 --> 01:09:06,700 This is the sun's anvil. 541 01:10:39,293 --> 01:10:40,544 Have we done it? 542 01:10:40,794 --> 01:10:43,922 No, but we're off the anvil. 543 01:10:44,798 --> 01:10:46,342 Thank God for that anyway. 544 01:10:46,550 --> 01:10:48,469 Yes, thank him. 545 01:10:48,719 --> 01:10:52,306 Lawrence, I do not think you know how you have tempted him. 546 01:10:52,556 --> 01:10:53,849 I know. 547 01:10:57,186 --> 01:10:58,687 We've done it. 548 01:10:58,979 --> 01:11:00,522 God willing. 549 01:11:02,650 --> 01:11:04,693 When do we reach the wells? 550 01:11:05,069 --> 01:11:08,238 God willing, midday. 551 01:11:08,739 --> 01:11:12,159 - Then we've done it. - Thank him, Lawrence. Thank him. 552 01:11:15,829 --> 01:11:17,456 Gasim's. 553 01:11:21,335 --> 01:11:23,045 What's happened to him? 554 01:11:23,837 --> 01:11:25,339 God knows. 555 01:11:27,007 --> 01:11:28,884 Why don't you stop? 556 01:11:29,343 --> 01:11:32,846 For what? He will be dead by midday. 557 01:11:38,185 --> 01:11:39,978 We must go back. 558 01:11:40,187 --> 01:11:43,065 What for, to die with Gasim? 559 01:11:44,358 --> 01:11:46,610 In one hour comes the sun. 560 01:11:48,112 --> 01:11:52,783 In God's name, understand! We cannot go back! 561 01:11:53,033 --> 01:11:54,368 I can. 562 01:11:55,202 --> 01:11:56,870 Take the boys. 563 01:12:02,710 --> 01:12:05,212 If you go back, you kill yourself, is all. 564 01:12:05,379 --> 01:12:07,715 Gasim you have killed already. 565 01:12:08,215 --> 01:12:09,550 Get out of my way. 566 01:12:09,883 --> 01:12:13,721 Gasim's time is come, Lawrence. It is written. 567 01:12:13,929 --> 01:12:15,264 Nothing is written! 568 01:12:18,392 --> 01:12:19,810 Go back, then! 569 01:12:20,227 --> 01:12:23,564 What did you bring us here for with your blasphemous conceit? 570 01:12:24,565 --> 01:12:26,442 English blasphemer! 571 01:12:27,568 --> 01:12:29,153 Aqaba? 572 01:12:29,653 --> 01:12:31,447 Was it Aqaba? 573 01:12:32,281 --> 01:12:35,033 You will not be at Aqaba, English! 574 01:12:37,077 --> 01:12:38,662 Go back, blasphemer... 575 01:12:39,246 --> 01:12:41,248 but you will not be at Aqaba. 576 01:12:41,623 --> 01:12:43,333 I shall be at Aqaba. 577 01:12:43,584 --> 01:12:45,627 That is written. 578 01:12:46,253 --> 01:12:47,546 In here. 579 01:12:57,431 --> 01:12:59,183 English! 580 01:12:59,433 --> 01:13:01,101 English! 581 01:19:34,161 --> 01:19:37,080 Lawrence! Daud! 582 01:21:45,500 --> 01:21:47,627 Nothing is written. 583 01:22:19,826 --> 01:22:21,411 Al Lawrence. 584 01:22:25,832 --> 01:22:27,250 Farraj. 585 01:22:28,376 --> 01:22:29,544 Wash. 586 01:23:06,748 --> 01:23:08,458 Al Lawrence. 587 01:23:08,917 --> 01:23:13,546 Truly, for some men nothing is written unless they write it. 588 01:23:18,218 --> 01:23:21,221 Not Al Lawrence. Just Lawrence. 589 01:23:21,429 --> 01:23:24,182 - Al Lawrence is better. - True. 590 01:23:26,184 --> 01:23:28,770 Your father too, just Mr. Lawrence? 591 01:23:35,110 --> 01:23:37,904 My father is Sir Thomas Chapman. 592 01:23:38,113 --> 01:23:40,907 - Is that a lord? - A kind of lord. 593 01:23:41,241 --> 01:23:43,993 Then when he dies, you too will be a lord. 594 01:23:44,244 --> 01:23:45,453 No. 595 01:23:47,622 --> 01:23:49,416 You have an elder brother. 596 01:23:49,582 --> 01:23:50,792 No. 597 01:23:50,959 --> 01:23:56,089 But then, I do not understand this. Your father's name is Chapman. 598 01:23:57,632 --> 01:23:59,592 He didn't marry my mother. 599 01:24:01,094 --> 01:24:02,762 I see. 600 01:24:03,263 --> 01:24:04,639 I'm sorry. 601 01:24:06,599 --> 01:24:10,520 It seems to me that you are free to choose your own name, then. 602 01:24:13,106 --> 01:24:15,608 Yes, I suppose I am. 603 01:24:16,943 --> 01:24:18,653 Al Lawrence is best. 604 01:24:21,614 --> 01:24:25,743 All right, I'll settle for Al Lawrence. 605 01:24:55,398 --> 01:24:58,485 They are the robes of a sherif of the Beni Wejh. 606 01:25:11,164 --> 01:25:12,832 Very fine. 607 01:25:14,834 --> 01:25:18,922 - Great honor. - The honor is to us. Saiaam, sherif. 608 01:25:19,172 --> 01:25:21,591 - Is it permitted? - Surely. 609 01:25:26,804 --> 01:25:31,851 He for whom nothing is written may write himself a clan. 610 01:25:39,859 --> 01:25:43,112 They are good for riding. Try. 611 01:27:35,224 --> 01:27:36,934 What are you doing, Englishman? 612 01:27:38,311 --> 01:27:39,854 As you see. 613 01:27:41,147 --> 01:27:42,190 Are you alone? 614 01:27:42,649 --> 01:27:44,233 Almost. 615 01:27:52,867 --> 01:27:55,328 Are you with those dogs drinking at my well? 616 01:27:55,578 --> 01:27:56,996 Yours? 617 01:28:00,583 --> 01:28:02,377 I am Auda Abu Tayi. 618 01:28:04,170 --> 01:28:07,006 I've heard of another man of that name. 619 01:28:07,882 --> 01:28:09,592 Other? What other? 620 01:28:09,967 --> 01:28:14,180 The Auda I'd heard of wouldn't need to summon help to look after his wells. 621 01:28:17,684 --> 01:28:19,852 He must be a great hero. 622 01:28:20,061 --> 01:28:21,771 He is. 623 01:28:22,021 --> 01:28:25,191 He wouldn't refuse water to men coming out of Nefud Desert. 624 01:28:25,525 --> 01:28:27,610 Now, would he not? 625 01:28:30,196 --> 01:28:33,032 No, that must be some other man. 626 01:28:35,535 --> 01:28:37,412 Here is my help. 627 01:29:03,104 --> 01:29:05,773 Son, what fashion is this? 628 01:29:07,108 --> 01:29:10,778 - Harith, Father. - What manner of Harith? 629 01:29:11,404 --> 01:29:12,739 A Beni Wejh sherif. 630 01:29:13,740 --> 01:29:15,241 And is he Harith? 631 01:29:15,450 --> 01:29:17,660 No, Father, English. 632 01:29:20,913 --> 01:29:22,248 Son... 633 01:29:23,082 --> 01:29:25,168 they are stealing our water. 634 01:29:26,085 --> 01:29:27,920 Tell them we are coming. 635 01:29:28,671 --> 01:29:29,756 Tell them. 636 01:30:39,700 --> 01:30:41,369 - Empty that! - Do not! 637 01:30:43,663 --> 01:30:45,832 It is Auda of the Howeitat who speaks. 638 01:30:46,624 --> 01:30:48,668 It is Ali of the Harith who answers. 639 01:31:04,851 --> 01:31:06,143 Harith. 640 01:31:07,019 --> 01:31:08,187 Ali. 641 01:31:08,896 --> 01:31:11,148 Does your father still steal? 642 01:31:13,234 --> 01:31:14,443 No. 643 01:31:16,070 --> 01:31:19,031 Does Auda take me for one of his own bastards? 644 01:31:20,241 --> 01:31:23,411 No. There is no resemblance. 645 01:31:24,287 --> 01:31:26,706 Alas, you resemble your father. 646 01:31:27,164 --> 01:31:30,042 - Auda flatters me. - You are easily flattered. 647 01:31:30,585 --> 01:31:33,045 I knew your father well. 648 01:31:33,462 --> 01:31:35,298 Did you know your own? 649 01:31:38,676 --> 01:31:43,389 We are 50, you are two. How if we shot you down? 650 01:31:43,890 --> 01:31:46,976 Why, then you have a blood feud with the Howeitat. 651 01:31:48,269 --> 01:31:51,314 - Do you desire it? - Not the generals in Cairo... 652 01:31:51,814 --> 01:31:54,901 nor the sultan himself desire that. 653 01:31:58,070 --> 01:31:59,238 Call off your men. 654 01:32:04,785 --> 01:32:07,413 This honors the unworthy. 655 01:32:07,747 --> 01:32:09,832 I've only just begun to teach him. 656 01:32:10,082 --> 01:32:14,337 And what are you teaching him today? Howeitat hospitality? 657 01:32:14,587 --> 01:32:16,589 Be not clever with me, English. 658 01:32:18,299 --> 01:32:21,594 - Who is he? - A friend of Prince Feisal's. 659 01:32:31,103 --> 01:32:34,273 - So you desire my hospitality? - Yes. 660 01:32:34,482 --> 01:32:35,983 Is he your tongue? 661 01:32:36,734 --> 01:32:38,486 We do desire it. 662 01:32:41,656 --> 01:32:44,784 Then it is given, if you will take it. 663 01:32:46,285 --> 01:32:48,120 I'm at my summer camp, a poor place. 664 01:32:48,371 --> 01:32:53,125 Well, to me it seems a poor place. Some men find it marvelous. 665 01:32:53,876 --> 01:32:58,297 Tomorrow, maybe I will allow the Turks to buy you, friends of Feisal. 666 01:32:59,548 --> 01:33:00,800 But... 667 01:33:01,300 --> 01:33:02,635 dine with me. 668 01:33:04,011 --> 01:33:05,471 Dine with Auda, English. 669 01:33:06,305 --> 01:33:08,808 Dine with the Howeitat, Harith. 670 01:33:09,558 --> 01:33:14,313 It is my pleasure that you dine with me in Wadi Rumm! 671 01:35:53,973 --> 01:35:57,643 This thing you work against Aqaba... 672 01:35:58,018 --> 01:36:00,437 what profit do you hope from it? 673 01:36:00,646 --> 01:36:03,232 We work it for Feisal of Mecca. 674 01:36:03,482 --> 01:36:05,568 The Harith do not work for profit. 675 01:36:06,735 --> 01:36:10,489 Well, if it is in a man to be a servant, Sherif Ali... 676 01:36:10,990 --> 01:36:13,492 he could find worse masters than Feisal. 677 01:36:13,826 --> 01:36:16,662 But I... I cannot serve. 678 01:36:17,538 --> 01:36:20,583 You permit the Turks to stay in Aqaba. 679 01:36:20,833 --> 01:36:22,835 Yes, it is my pleasure. 680 01:36:27,840 --> 01:36:31,343 We do not work this thing for Feisal. 681 01:36:31,844 --> 01:36:32,845 No? 682 01:36:33,888 --> 01:36:36,557 - For the English, then? - For the Arabs. 683 01:36:37,183 --> 01:36:38,601 The Arabs? 684 01:36:39,393 --> 01:36:43,689 The Howeitat, Ageyil, Ruala, Beni Sahkr, these I know. 685 01:36:43,898 --> 01:36:45,900 I have even heard of the Harith. 686 01:36:46,567 --> 01:36:48,068 But the Arabs? 687 01:36:48,527 --> 01:36:50,696 What tribe is that? 688 01:36:52,364 --> 01:36:56,535 They're a tribe of slaves. They serve the Turks. 689 01:36:56,744 --> 01:36:58,787 Well, they are nothing to me. 690 01:36:59,038 --> 01:37:00,915 My tribe is the Howeitat. 691 01:37:01,123 --> 01:37:03,500 Who work only for profit. 692 01:37:03,709 --> 01:37:05,377 Who work at Auda's pleasure. 693 01:37:05,544 --> 01:37:08,214 And Auda's pleasure is to serve the Turks. 694 01:37:08,380 --> 01:37:09,548 Serve? 695 01:37:10,007 --> 01:37:11,050 I serve? 696 01:37:11,258 --> 01:37:13,928 It is the servant who takes money. 697 01:37:19,225 --> 01:37:20,935 I am Auda Abu Tayi. 698 01:37:21,227 --> 01:37:23,062 - Does Auda serve? - No! 699 01:37:23,229 --> 01:37:26,398 - Does Auda Abu Tayi serve? - No! 700 01:37:31,070 --> 01:37:35,157 I carry 23 great wounds, all got in battle. 701 01:37:35,616 --> 01:37:39,119 75 men have I killed with my own hands, in battle. 702 01:37:39,328 --> 01:37:43,540 I scatter, I burn my enemies tents. I take away their flocks and herds. 703 01:37:43,749 --> 01:37:47,836 The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! 704 01:37:48,087 --> 01:37:52,258 Because I am a river to my people. 705 01:38:00,933 --> 01:38:02,101 Is that service? 706 01:38:02,643 --> 01:38:03,936 No. 707 01:38:10,651 --> 01:38:14,154 And yet now it seems Auda has grown old. 708 01:38:14,363 --> 01:38:17,116 And lost his taste for fighting. 709 01:38:17,283 --> 01:38:21,453 It is well you say it in my tent, thou old tulip. 710 01:38:21,662 --> 01:38:25,457 Yet this is a tulip that the Turks could not buy. 711 01:38:25,624 --> 01:38:27,459 Why should they wish to? 712 01:38:29,628 --> 01:38:30,671 Now... 713 01:38:31,297 --> 01:38:35,467 I will tell you what they pay me, and you will tell me if this is... 714 01:38:35,676 --> 01:38:37,970 a servant's wages. 715 01:38:38,137 --> 01:38:42,141 They pay me, month by month... 716 01:38:42,349 --> 01:38:46,478 100 golden guineas. 717 01:38:47,646 --> 01:38:50,816 150, Auda. 718 01:38:51,025 --> 01:38:53,986 - Who told you that? - I have long ears. 719 01:38:54,153 --> 01:38:56,488 And a long tongue between them. 720 01:38:56,655 --> 01:39:00,034 100, 150, what matters? It's a trifle. 721 01:39:00,242 --> 01:39:04,038 A trifle which they take from a great box they have. 722 01:39:04,246 --> 01:39:06,248 In Aqaba. 723 01:39:07,499 --> 01:39:10,210 - In Aqaba? - Where else? 724 01:39:11,128 --> 01:39:14,006 You trouble me like women. 725 01:39:14,340 --> 01:39:17,509 Friends, we've been foolish. Auda will not come to Aqaba. 726 01:39:18,177 --> 01:39:19,345 - For money? - No. 727 01:39:19,678 --> 01:39:20,846 - For Feisal? - No! 728 01:39:21,055 --> 01:39:24,141 Nor to drive away the Turks. 729 01:39:24,892 --> 01:39:26,769 He will come... 730 01:39:27,686 --> 01:39:30,022 because it is his pleasure. 731 01:39:32,024 --> 01:39:35,694 Thy mother mated with a scorpion. 732 01:39:37,071 --> 01:39:40,532 Make God your agent! 733 01:39:41,867 --> 01:39:44,036 Aqaba! 734 01:39:44,244 --> 01:39:45,913 Aqaba! 735 01:40:01,595 --> 01:40:03,597 God be with you. 736 01:40:06,558 --> 01:40:08,227 God be with you. 737 01:40:21,740 --> 01:40:24,243 God be with you. 738 01:40:24,701 --> 01:40:26,745 God be with you. 739 01:43:22,296 --> 01:43:23,755 Yes. 740 01:43:24,089 --> 01:43:25,132 Aqaba. 741 01:43:26,758 --> 01:43:29,428 Tomorrow we will go and get it. 742 01:43:30,637 --> 01:43:33,599 - Do you think we shall? - Yes. 743 01:43:33,765 --> 01:43:36,518 If you are right about the guns. 744 01:44:04,463 --> 01:44:07,174 He killed. He dies. 745 01:44:07,924 --> 01:44:10,135 This is the end of Aqaba. 746 01:44:12,804 --> 01:44:14,640 One of our men murdered Auda's man. 747 01:44:14,806 --> 01:44:15,807 Why? 748 01:44:16,016 --> 01:44:19,061 Theft? Blood feud? It makes no matter why. 749 01:44:19,519 --> 01:44:20,729 Ali! 750 01:44:21,146 --> 01:44:22,981 It is an ancient wound. 751 01:44:23,190 --> 01:44:26,151 I didn't come here to watch a tribal bloodbath. 752 01:44:30,656 --> 01:44:32,824 It is the law, Lawrence. 753 01:44:32,991 --> 01:44:35,327 The law says the man must die. 754 01:44:36,244 --> 01:44:39,331 If he dies, will that content the Howeitat? 755 01:44:40,332 --> 01:44:41,583 Yes. 756 01:44:45,045 --> 01:44:46,672 Sherif Ali! 757 01:44:46,838 --> 01:44:49,841 If none of Lord Auda's men harms any of yours... 758 01:44:50,217 --> 01:44:53,470 - ... will that content the Harith? - Yes. 759 01:44:59,601 --> 01:45:02,229 Then I will execute the law. 760 01:45:03,230 --> 01:45:05,357 I have no tribe. 761 01:45:06,608 --> 01:45:08,902 And no one is offended. 762 01:45:21,373 --> 01:45:22,374 Gasim. 763 01:45:26,878 --> 01:45:28,296 Did you do it? 764 01:45:55,240 --> 01:45:56,908 Well, Lawrence... 765 01:46:04,416 --> 01:46:05,792 What ails the Englishman? 766 01:46:06,042 --> 01:46:09,463 That that he killed was the man he brought out of the Nefud. 767 01:46:09,671 --> 01:46:11,673 It was written, then. 768 01:46:12,549 --> 01:46:14,551 Better to have left him. 769 01:46:18,180 --> 01:46:21,475 It was execution, Lawrence. No shame in that. 770 01:46:21,933 --> 01:46:24,186 Besides, it was necessary. 771 01:46:25,270 --> 01:46:27,481 You gave life and you took it. 772 01:46:28,064 --> 01:46:29,608 The writing is still yours. 773 01:47:06,812 --> 01:47:08,897 Auda Abu Tayi! 774 01:50:24,926 --> 01:50:27,178 The miracle is accomplished. 775 01:50:28,179 --> 01:50:29,806 Garlands for the conqueror. 776 01:50:50,910 --> 01:50:54,080 Tribute for the prince. Flowers for the man. 777 01:50:54,873 --> 01:50:56,583 I'm none of those things, Ali. 778 01:50:56,833 --> 01:50:59,461 - What, then? - Don't know. 779 01:51:00,545 --> 01:51:01,838 Thanks. 780 01:51:03,381 --> 01:51:05,550 My God, I love this country. 781 01:51:07,218 --> 01:51:08,219 What! 782 01:51:09,262 --> 01:51:11,139 No gold in Aqaba! 783 01:51:12,474 --> 01:51:14,893 Auda, I found it! 784 01:51:24,110 --> 01:51:25,737 That's a pity. 785 01:51:29,282 --> 01:51:31,868 Ali, get a message down the coast to Yenbo. 786 01:51:32,077 --> 01:51:34,579 Tell Feisal to find boats, any boats... 787 01:51:34,746 --> 01:51:37,916 and bring the Arab army here to Aqaba, quickly. 788 01:51:38,124 --> 01:51:39,292 And you? 789 01:51:40,085 --> 01:51:42,629 I'm going to tell the generals... 790 01:51:43,088 --> 01:51:44,923 in Cairo. 791 01:51:45,131 --> 01:51:47,467 Yes, cross Sinai. 792 01:51:47,759 --> 01:51:48,760 Come on! 793 01:51:49,094 --> 01:51:50,428 Sinai? 794 01:51:50,929 --> 01:51:52,263 Yes. 795 01:51:52,764 --> 01:51:56,434 - With these? - They'll be all right with me. 796 01:52:01,689 --> 01:52:05,819 Look, Ali. If any of your Bedouin arrived in Cairo and said: 797 01:52:06,111 --> 01:52:08,947 "We've taken Aqaba," the generals would laugh. 798 01:52:09,697 --> 01:52:10,990 I see. 799 01:52:11,616 --> 01:52:14,786 In Cairo you will put off these funny clothes. 800 01:52:14,953 --> 01:52:19,165 You'll wear trousers and tell stories of our quaintness and barbarity... 801 01:52:19,791 --> 01:52:22,043 and then they will believe you. 802 01:52:22,627 --> 01:52:24,796 You're an ignorant man. 803 01:52:44,816 --> 01:52:46,234 Paper. 804 01:52:47,152 --> 01:52:48,987 Paper! 805 01:52:51,698 --> 01:52:54,367 There is no gold in Aqaba. 806 01:52:55,493 --> 01:52:57,328 No gold. 807 01:52:58,705 --> 01:53:00,665 No great box! 808 01:53:04,836 --> 01:53:07,172 Did Auda come to Aqaba for gold? 809 01:53:07,714 --> 01:53:10,008 For my pleasure, as you said. 810 01:53:11,259 --> 01:53:13,761 But gold is honorable... 811 01:53:14,846 --> 01:53:17,515 and Lawrence promised gold. 812 01:53:18,600 --> 01:53:19,767 Lawrence lied. 813 01:53:21,728 --> 01:53:23,188 See, Auda. 814 01:53:25,857 --> 01:53:27,984 "The Crown of England... 815 01:53:29,068 --> 01:53:31,529 promises to pay... 816 01:53:32,530 --> 01:53:36,910 5000 golden guineas... 817 01:53:37,410 --> 01:53:42,123 to Auda Abu Tayi." 818 01:53:43,249 --> 01:53:47,545 Signed in His Majesty's absence... 819 01:53:47,795 --> 01:53:49,214 by... 820 01:53:50,924 --> 01:53:52,133 me. 821 01:53:53,218 --> 01:53:55,386 In 10 days... 822 01:53:56,095 --> 01:53:58,223 I'll be back with the gold. 823 01:53:59,307 --> 01:54:04,062 With gold, with guns, with everything. 824 01:54:05,146 --> 01:54:06,731 Ten days. 825 01:54:08,024 --> 01:54:09,651 You'll cross Sinai? 826 01:54:09,943 --> 01:54:11,319 Why not? 827 01:54:12,070 --> 01:54:13,780 Moses did. 828 01:54:16,407 --> 01:54:18,618 And you will take the children? 829 01:54:19,911 --> 01:54:21,287 Moses did. 830 01:54:21,537 --> 01:54:23,248 Moses was a prophet... 831 01:54:23,748 --> 01:54:26,334 and beloved of God. 832 01:54:31,631 --> 01:54:35,760 He said there was gold here. He lied. 833 01:54:37,053 --> 01:54:39,931 He is not perfect. 834 01:54:49,983 --> 01:54:52,443 Lord, can we not rest? 835 01:54:52,610 --> 01:54:55,780 I told you, no rest till they know that I have Aqaba. 836 01:54:57,991 --> 01:54:59,701 Have you two slept in beds? 837 01:54:59,951 --> 01:55:01,160 Farraj? 838 01:55:01,786 --> 01:55:03,079 Daud? 839 01:55:04,289 --> 01:55:05,957 With sheets? 840 01:55:07,875 --> 01:55:11,337 Tomorrow the finest sheets in the finest room and hotel in Cairo. 841 01:55:11,587 --> 01:55:12,880 I promise. 842 01:55:13,131 --> 01:55:15,800 Then it shall be so, lord. 843 01:55:37,155 --> 01:55:38,489 Look! 844 01:55:45,246 --> 01:55:46,831 Pillar of fire. 845 01:55:50,043 --> 01:55:52,045 No, lord. Dust. 846 01:56:41,677 --> 01:56:43,179 My compass. 847 01:56:44,972 --> 01:56:46,265 No matter. 848 01:56:46,724 --> 01:56:50,436 If we ride west, we must strike the canal. 849 01:56:51,562 --> 01:56:52,939 Due west. 850 01:57:13,584 --> 01:57:15,086 Come on! 851 01:57:48,494 --> 01:57:51,122 Lawrence! 852 01:58:03,843 --> 01:58:05,136 Farraj! 853 01:58:15,396 --> 01:58:18,316 Farraj, don't! Don't! 854 01:58:19,358 --> 01:58:20,776 Don't! 855 01:59:56,247 --> 01:59:57,415 Why do you walk? 856 02:00:00,167 --> 02:00:02,086 But why, lord? 857 02:00:13,431 --> 02:00:14,682 But why, lord? 858 02:00:14,932 --> 02:00:18,394 There is room for both. It serves no purpose. 859 02:00:44,128 --> 02:00:46,631 Lawrence, look! 860 02:01:55,533 --> 02:01:57,576 It's all right, Farraj. 861 02:01:57,785 --> 02:01:59,370 It's all right. 862 02:03:11,275 --> 02:03:13,152 Who are you? 863 02:03:15,279 --> 02:03:17,948 Who are you? 864 02:03:53,359 --> 02:03:55,986 - Daud! - We're here, sir. 865 02:04:14,171 --> 02:04:15,714 You taking him in there? 866 02:04:16,841 --> 02:04:18,217 Yes. 867 02:04:38,737 --> 02:04:40,155 Here! 868 02:04:42,074 --> 02:04:44,410 Here. You! 869 02:04:45,953 --> 02:04:49,456 And where the hell do you think you're going to, Mustapha? 870 02:04:50,207 --> 02:04:51,709 We are thirsty. 871 02:04:53,544 --> 02:04:55,963 - Mr. Lawrence, is it? - Yes. 872 02:04:56,422 --> 02:04:59,550 - Are you going to the officers' bar? - Yes. 873 02:05:00,759 --> 02:05:03,053 You can't take him in there, sir. 874 02:05:06,724 --> 02:05:09,268 What do you think you look like? 875 02:05:27,953 --> 02:05:29,580 No, no. You must go. 876 02:05:29,788 --> 02:05:31,415 No, no. Go, effendi, go! 877 02:05:33,250 --> 02:05:36,003 Get out! You must get out! Get out! 878 02:05:37,630 --> 02:05:41,926 We want two large glasses of lemonade. 879 02:05:42,134 --> 02:05:45,971 - This is a bar for British officers. - We are not particular. 880 02:05:51,310 --> 02:05:55,230 - Are you off your head? - No. Oddly enough I'm not. 881 02:05:55,481 --> 02:05:59,109 - Just clear out of here, will you? - Get that boy out of here. 882 02:05:59,443 --> 02:06:02,112 Corporal, we'll have this one out anyway. 883 02:06:02,780 --> 02:06:05,324 - Get that wog out of here. - Clear off. 884 02:06:07,451 --> 02:06:09,161 What's going on? 885 02:06:12,122 --> 02:06:16,043 - It's Lawrence, sir. - Lemonade with ice. 886 02:06:17,378 --> 02:06:18,963 Explain yourself. 887 02:06:19,672 --> 02:06:21,465 We've taken Aqaba. 888 02:06:21,966 --> 02:06:24,635 - Taken Aqaba? Who has? - We have. 889 02:06:24,885 --> 02:06:29,390 Our side in this war has. The wogs have. 890 02:06:30,140 --> 02:06:31,475 We have. 891 02:06:33,268 --> 02:06:35,145 He likes your lemonade. 892 02:06:35,479 --> 02:06:37,398 You mean the Turks have gone? 893 02:06:37,690 --> 02:06:40,651 No, they're still there but they've no boots. 894 02:06:41,151 --> 02:06:45,280 Prisoners, sir. We took them prisoners. The entire garrison. 895 02:06:45,781 --> 02:06:47,992 That's not true. We killed some. 896 02:06:48,200 --> 02:06:52,162 Too many, really. I'll manage it better next time. 897 02:06:53,497 --> 02:06:56,375 There's been a lot of killing one way or another. 898 02:06:58,502 --> 02:07:02,006 Cross my heart and hope to die, it's all perfectly true. 899 02:07:02,214 --> 02:07:05,009 - It isn't possible. - Yes, it is. 900 02:07:05,342 --> 02:07:07,177 I did it. 901 02:07:12,391 --> 02:07:14,059 You'd better talk to Allenby. 902 02:07:14,351 --> 02:07:17,104 - General Allenby? - He's in command. Murray's gone. 903 02:07:17,354 --> 02:07:19,606 That's a step in the right direction. 904 02:07:20,357 --> 02:07:23,110 First I want a room. With a bed, with sheets. 905 02:07:23,402 --> 02:07:26,113 - Yes, of course. - It's for him. 906 02:07:27,865 --> 02:07:30,743 Right. You want a bed yourself, don't you? 907 02:07:31,035 --> 02:07:33,037 See Allenby first, though. 908 02:07:33,704 --> 02:07:35,330 Will he see me? 909 02:07:36,081 --> 02:07:37,583 I think so. 910 02:07:38,333 --> 02:07:39,877 Do that, then. 911 02:07:44,757 --> 02:07:47,384 - I'd better shave. - Yes, you had. 912 02:07:47,593 --> 02:07:50,220 You'd better get into some trousers too. 913 02:08:01,398 --> 02:08:03,233 "Undisciplined. 914 02:08:05,110 --> 02:08:07,071 Unpunctual. 915 02:08:08,238 --> 02:08:10,157 Untidy. 916 02:08:11,992 --> 02:08:14,119 Several languages. 917 02:08:15,412 --> 02:08:17,414 Knowledge of music... 918 02:08:18,290 --> 02:08:20,084 literature. 919 02:08:21,126 --> 02:08:23,087 Knowledge of... 920 02:08:24,463 --> 02:08:26,256 Knowledge of..." 921 02:08:29,468 --> 02:08:32,429 You're an interesting man, there's no doubt about it. 922 02:08:33,097 --> 02:08:36,183 - Who told you to take Aqaba? - Nobody. 923 02:08:36,475 --> 02:08:39,144 - Sir. - Sir. 924 02:08:39,436 --> 02:08:40,771 Then why did you? 925 02:08:40,938 --> 02:08:43,440 - Aqaba's important. - Why is it important? 926 02:08:43,649 --> 02:08:46,193 - It's the Turkish route to the canal. - Not anymore. 927 02:08:46,443 --> 02:08:50,614 - They're coming through Beersheba. - I know, but we've gone to Gaza. 928 02:08:50,781 --> 02:08:55,410 - So? - So that left Aqaba behind your right. 929 02:08:55,953 --> 02:08:56,995 True. 930 02:08:57,204 --> 02:09:01,834 And it will be further behind your right when you go for Jerusalem. 931 02:09:02,709 --> 02:09:05,129 Am I going for Jerusalem? 932 02:09:05,462 --> 02:09:06,630 Yes. 933 02:09:08,966 --> 02:09:10,425 Very well. 934 02:09:10,634 --> 02:09:12,928 Aqaba behind my right. 935 02:09:13,137 --> 02:09:16,014 It threatened El' Arîsh and Gaza. 936 02:09:17,474 --> 02:09:18,725 Anything else? 937 02:09:18,976 --> 02:09:20,185 Yes. 938 02:09:20,477 --> 02:09:22,938 Aqaba's linked with Medina. 939 02:09:23,480 --> 02:09:26,483 Do you think we should shift them out of Medina now? 940 02:09:26,733 --> 02:09:30,320 No. I think you should leave them there. 941 02:09:30,487 --> 02:09:32,489 You acted without orders, you know. 942 02:09:33,198 --> 02:09:37,452 Shouldn't officers use their initiative at all times? 943 02:09:37,661 --> 02:09:39,997 Not really. It's awfully dangerous. 944 02:09:40,205 --> 02:09:42,541 Yes, I know. 945 02:09:42,833 --> 02:09:44,376 Already? 946 02:09:44,668 --> 02:09:45,836 Yes. 947 02:09:47,588 --> 02:09:50,215 I'm promoting you major. 948 02:09:51,216 --> 02:09:53,510 I don't think that's a very good idea. 949 02:09:53,677 --> 02:09:56,763 I didn't ask you. I want you to go back... 950 02:09:57,014 --> 02:10:00,684 and carry on the good work. 951 02:10:01,185 --> 02:10:04,021 No. Thank you, sir. 952 02:10:04,521 --> 02:10:08,483 - Why not? - Well, I, it's... 953 02:10:08,692 --> 02:10:10,027 Let me see now... 954 02:10:11,737 --> 02:10:15,490 I killed two people. I mean, two Arabs. 955 02:10:15,699 --> 02:10:17,910 One was a boy. 956 02:10:18,118 --> 02:10:19,578 That was... 957 02:10:21,205 --> 02:10:23,040 yesterday. 958 02:10:23,248 --> 02:10:25,292 I led him into a quicksand. 959 02:10:25,542 --> 02:10:27,211 The other was a man. 960 02:10:27,544 --> 02:10:29,504 That was... 961 02:10:29,713 --> 02:10:32,132 before Aqaba, anyway. 962 02:10:32,799 --> 02:10:35,510 I had to execute him with my pistol. 963 02:10:36,011 --> 02:10:39,056 There was something about it I didn't like. 964 02:10:39,306 --> 02:10:42,434 - Well, naturally. - No. Something else. 965 02:10:44,728 --> 02:10:47,064 That's all right. Let it be a warning. 966 02:10:47,272 --> 02:10:49,399 No. Something else. 967 02:10:51,026 --> 02:10:52,611 What, then? 968 02:10:53,528 --> 02:10:55,906 I enjoyed it. 969 02:11:03,413 --> 02:11:06,917 Rubbish. Rubbish and nerves. You're tired. 970 02:11:08,669 --> 02:11:12,297 What do you mean coming dressed like that? Amateur theatricals? 971 02:11:12,547 --> 02:11:14,258 Yes. Entirely. 972 02:11:14,466 --> 02:11:17,594 Let me see that hat thing or whatever it is. 973 02:11:17,928 --> 02:11:19,930 Fascinating gear they wear. 974 02:11:20,180 --> 02:11:22,432 How would I look in this, Harry? 975 02:11:22,641 --> 02:11:26,144 - Damn ridiculous, sir. - Here, you keep it. 976 02:11:27,062 --> 02:11:31,149 What I'm trying to say is I don't think I'm fit for it. 977 02:11:31,358 --> 02:11:34,278 Really? What do you think, Dryden? 978 02:11:35,279 --> 02:11:39,866 Before he did it, sir, I'd have said it couldn't be done. 979 02:11:40,200 --> 02:11:43,203 - Brighton? - I know what he thinks. 980 02:11:44,371 --> 02:11:47,708 I think you should recommend a decoration, sir. 981 02:11:48,083 --> 02:11:50,961 I don't think it matters what his motives were. 982 02:11:51,169 --> 02:11:54,298 It was a brilliant bit of soldiering. 983 02:11:55,841 --> 02:11:57,718 - Mr. Perkins! - Sir! 984 02:11:57,968 --> 02:12:00,595 Let's have a drink, gentlemen. 985 02:12:04,641 --> 02:12:08,020 - You've heard about this, Mr. Perkins? - Yes, sir. 986 02:12:08,228 --> 02:12:12,524 - What do you think about it? - Bloody marvelous, sir. Well done. 987 02:12:12,733 --> 02:12:15,819 - Thank you, Mr. Perkins. - Sir! 988 02:12:21,491 --> 02:12:23,118 Come on, then. 989 02:12:26,705 --> 02:12:28,498 You're a clever man, sir. 990 02:12:28,832 --> 02:12:32,419 No, but I know a good thing when I see one. 991 02:12:32,669 --> 02:12:35,380 That's fair, surely? 992 02:12:55,901 --> 02:13:01,031 If I need a breakthrough to Jerusalem, I must concentrate, not dissipate. 993 02:13:01,239 --> 02:13:03,533 - Bravo. - You know better? 994 02:13:23,095 --> 02:13:25,931 I fight like Clausewitz, then you fight like Saxe. 995 02:13:26,181 --> 02:13:28,558 We should do very well indeed, shouldn't we? 996 02:14:05,137 --> 02:14:07,597 Easy, gentlemen, please. 997 02:14:08,765 --> 02:14:10,976 - Give us something to drink. - Of course, sir. 998 02:14:11,476 --> 02:14:15,105 I'm here at the invitation of Major Lawrence. 999 02:14:15,856 --> 02:14:17,023 Tracy. 1000 02:14:18,942 --> 02:14:20,777 Shall we go outside? 1001 02:14:31,955 --> 02:14:35,250 So you hold bound the Turkish desert army? 1002 02:14:35,459 --> 02:14:36,501 Yes. 1003 02:14:36,751 --> 02:14:39,045 With 1000 Arabs? 1004 02:14:40,130 --> 02:14:43,300 1000 Arabs means 1000 knives. 1005 02:14:43,467 --> 02:14:45,469 Delivered anywhere, day or night. 1006 02:14:46,011 --> 02:14:47,679 It means 1000 camels. 1007 02:14:47,971 --> 02:14:52,267 That means 1000 packs of high explosives and 1000 crack rifles. 1008 02:14:52,809 --> 02:14:56,563 We can cross Arabia while Johnny Turk is still turning round. 1009 02:14:57,147 --> 02:14:59,065 I'll smash his railways. 1010 02:14:59,316 --> 02:15:01,818 While he mends, I'll smash them somewhere else. 1011 02:15:02,068 --> 02:15:04,863 In 13 weeks I can have Arabia in chaos. 1012 02:15:05,155 --> 02:15:07,491 You are going back, then? 1013 02:15:10,327 --> 02:15:11,578 Yes. 1014 02:15:11,995 --> 02:15:14,331 Of course I'm going back. 1015 02:15:18,668 --> 02:15:21,087 Well, if we can see it, so can the Turk. 1016 02:15:21,338 --> 02:15:25,592 If he finds he's using four divisions to fend off a handful of bandits... 1017 02:15:25,842 --> 02:15:27,010 he'll withdraw. 1018 02:15:27,177 --> 02:15:29,930 He daren't withdraw. Arabia's part of his empire. 1019 02:15:30,180 --> 02:15:32,682 If he gets out now, he'll never get back again. 1020 02:15:32,933 --> 02:15:35,435 - I wonder who will. - No one will. 1021 02:15:36,061 --> 02:15:38,313 Arabia's for the Arabs now. 1022 02:15:44,319 --> 02:15:46,613 That's what I've told them anyway. 1023 02:15:47,072 --> 02:15:48,907 That's what they think. 1024 02:15:49,366 --> 02:15:52,619 - That's why they're fighting. - Oh, surely. 1025 02:15:55,580 --> 02:15:57,874 They've only one suspicion. 1026 02:15:58,333 --> 02:16:02,712 That we'll let them drive the Turks out and then move in ourselves. 1027 02:16:02,921 --> 02:16:07,425 I've told them that that's false, that we have no ambitions in Arabia. 1028 02:16:07,634 --> 02:16:08,718 Have we? 1029 02:16:09,219 --> 02:16:11,388 I'm not a politician, thank God. 1030 02:16:11,596 --> 02:16:14,724 Have we any ambition in Arabia, Dryden? 1031 02:16:15,725 --> 02:16:17,978 Difficult question, sir. 1032 02:16:19,980 --> 02:16:23,775 I want to know, sir, if I can tell them in your name... 1033 02:16:23,984 --> 02:16:27,404 that we've no ambitions in Arabia. 1034 02:16:28,446 --> 02:16:29,948 Certainly. 1035 02:16:47,465 --> 02:16:50,927 2000 small arms, not enough. I need five. 1036 02:16:51,136 --> 02:16:52,304 Right. 1037 02:16:52,596 --> 02:16:55,932 Money. It'll have to be sovereigns. They don't like paper. 1038 02:16:56,933 --> 02:17:00,312 - Instructors for the Lewis guns. - Right. 1039 02:17:00,520 --> 02:17:02,105 More money. 1040 02:17:02,439 --> 02:17:05,609 - How much more? - 25,000 now. A lot more later. 1041 02:17:05,817 --> 02:17:08,528 - Dryden? - It can be done, sir. 1042 02:17:08,778 --> 02:17:11,615 A couple of armored cars. 1043 02:17:11,781 --> 02:17:13,158 Right. 1044 02:17:13,908 --> 02:17:15,452 Field artillery. 1045 02:17:17,621 --> 02:17:18,997 Right. 1046 02:17:21,958 --> 02:17:24,210 I'll give you every blessed thing I can... 1047 02:17:24,461 --> 02:17:27,339 because I know you'll use it. Congratulations. 1048 02:17:27,547 --> 02:17:30,300 Thank you for your hospitality, gentlemen. 1049 02:18:05,960 --> 02:18:07,837 Congratulations! 1050 02:18:18,098 --> 02:18:21,184 Are you really going to give them artillery, sir? 1051 02:18:21,393 --> 02:18:23,228 I was wondering that, sir. 1052 02:18:23,478 --> 02:18:25,689 Might be difficult to get it back. 1053 02:18:25,897 --> 02:18:29,484 Give them artillery and you've made them independent. 1054 02:18:29,693 --> 02:18:31,611 Then I can't give it to them, can I? 1055 02:18:31,861 --> 02:18:33,780 - For you to say. - No, it's not. 1056 02:18:34,030 --> 02:18:36,783 I've got orders to obey, thank God. 1057 02:18:37,033 --> 02:18:38,993 Not like that poor devil. 1058 02:18:39,494 --> 02:18:41,037 He's riding the whirlwind. 1059 02:18:41,246 --> 02:18:43,498 Let's hope we're not. 1060 02:24:07,245 --> 02:24:10,498 Excuse me, friend. Who do these bags belong to? 1061 02:24:11,041 --> 02:24:12,250 To Prince Feisal. 1062 02:24:12,500 --> 02:24:15,253 - You're not Prince Feisal? - No. 1063 02:24:15,545 --> 02:24:16,880 You know him though? 1064 02:24:17,047 --> 02:24:20,550 He is my master. I am his servant. 1065 02:24:23,720 --> 02:24:25,055 Can you read? 1066 02:24:33,730 --> 02:24:38,234 Chicago Courier is my paper, but my work is syndicated in America. 1067 02:24:38,485 --> 02:24:42,030 I understood so from your letter, Mr. Bentley. 1068 02:24:56,211 --> 02:24:57,378 Now... 1069 02:24:58,588 --> 02:25:02,550 - Where can I find Major Lawrence? - Is that what you have come for? 1070 02:25:02,759 --> 02:25:04,886 Not altogether, sir, no. 1071 02:25:05,136 --> 02:25:09,516 Well, Mr. Bentley, you will find Major Lawrence with my army. 1072 02:25:09,724 --> 02:25:12,811 That's what I meant, sir. Where can I find your army? 1073 02:25:13,103 --> 02:25:14,270 I don't know. 1074 02:25:14,938 --> 02:25:17,607 - Last week they were near El Ghira. - Ghira? 1075 02:25:17,816 --> 02:25:21,653 Yes, I fear you have a long journey. Can you ride a camel? 1076 02:25:22,612 --> 02:25:25,240 - I've never tried. - Take a mule. 1077 02:25:25,782 --> 02:25:27,909 Avoid Mellaha, the Turks are there. 1078 02:25:28,284 --> 02:25:30,912 In Mellaha now? They move fast. 1079 02:25:31,121 --> 02:25:32,413 They do. 1080 02:25:32,622 --> 02:25:35,792 But not so fast as we do, you will find. 1081 02:25:36,126 --> 02:25:37,627 Myself... 1082 02:25:38,253 --> 02:25:40,130 I am going to Cairo. 1083 02:25:40,338 --> 02:25:42,340 - As you know. - Yes. 1084 02:25:42,590 --> 02:25:45,093 There's work for me there of a different kind. 1085 02:25:45,635 --> 02:25:46,845 Yes. 1086 02:25:50,431 --> 02:25:52,809 I understand you've been given no artillery. 1087 02:25:53,268 --> 02:25:55,812 - That is so. - You're handicapped? 1088 02:25:55,979 --> 02:25:58,064 It restricts us to small things. 1089 02:25:58,273 --> 02:25:59,566 It's intended to. 1090 02:26:02,277 --> 02:26:03,862 Do you know General Allenby? 1091 02:26:04,863 --> 02:26:08,324 Watch out for Allenby. He's a slim customer. 1092 02:26:08,658 --> 02:26:11,327 - Excuse me? - A clever man. 1093 02:26:11,619 --> 02:26:14,497 Slim customer. It's very good. 1094 02:26:14,789 --> 02:26:19,335 I'll certainly watch out for him. You're being very sympathetic. 1095 02:26:19,627 --> 02:26:23,131 Your Highness, we Americans were once a colonial people. 1096 02:26:23,339 --> 02:26:25,717 We naturally feel sympathetic to any people... 1097 02:26:25,967 --> 02:26:28,178 who struggle for their freedom. 1098 02:26:28,344 --> 02:26:30,597 Very gratifying. 1099 02:26:33,349 --> 02:26:37,687 Also, my interests are the same as yours. You want your story told. 1100 02:26:37,854 --> 02:26:40,190 I badly want a story to tell. 1101 02:26:40,398 --> 02:26:44,194 Ah, now you are talking turkey, are you not? 1102 02:26:44,861 --> 02:26:47,697 I will give you a guide and a letter. 1103 02:26:47,906 --> 02:26:49,866 And before I leave here... 1104 02:26:50,158 --> 02:26:52,493 which must be presently... 1105 02:26:52,702 --> 02:26:56,206 I will have some facts and figures put on paper for you. 1106 02:26:57,999 --> 02:27:01,252 You know that we are destroying the Turkish railways. 1107 02:27:01,502 --> 02:27:02,629 I do, sir. 1108 02:27:02,837 --> 02:27:05,757 Major Lawrence is in charge of all this, is he? 1109 02:27:06,007 --> 02:27:08,509 My army is made up of tribes. 1110 02:27:08,718 --> 02:27:11,721 The tribes are led by the tribal leaders. 1111 02:27:11,888 --> 02:27:15,058 Your people do think very highly of Major Lawrence? 1112 02:27:15,266 --> 02:27:18,353 Oh, yes. And the rightly. 1113 02:27:18,937 --> 02:27:22,273 In this country, Mr. Bentley... 1114 02:27:23,149 --> 02:27:26,569 the man who gives victory in battle is prized... 1115 02:27:26,736 --> 02:27:29,405 beyond every other man. 1116 02:27:30,073 --> 02:27:33,243 One figure I can give you from my head... 1117 02:27:33,409 --> 02:27:37,080 because it never leaves my head. 1118 02:27:37,580 --> 02:27:41,668 Since starting this campaign four months ago, we have lost... 1119 02:27:42,585 --> 02:27:45,046 37 wounded... 1120 02:27:47,590 --> 02:27:50,927 156 dead. 1121 02:27:52,470 --> 02:27:57,267 You remark the disproportion between our dead and wounded. 1122 02:27:57,475 --> 02:27:58,768 Yeah. 1123 02:27:59,102 --> 02:28:00,478 Four times as many. 1124 02:28:00,728 --> 02:28:05,441 That's because those too wounded to bring away, we ourselves kill. 1125 02:28:05,692 --> 02:28:08,194 We leave no wounded for the Turks. 1126 02:28:08,611 --> 02:28:12,282 - You mean...? - We leave no wounded for the Turks. 1127 02:28:12,782 --> 02:28:16,202 In their eyes, we are not soldiers but rebels. 1128 02:28:16,411 --> 02:28:20,915 Rebels, wounded or whole, are not protected by the Geneva Code... 1129 02:28:21,124 --> 02:28:23,001 and are treated harshly. 1130 02:28:23,710 --> 02:28:24,794 How harshly? 1131 02:28:25,086 --> 02:28:27,964 More harshly than I hope you can imagine. 1132 02:28:28,756 --> 02:28:29,799 I see. 1133 02:28:29,966 --> 02:28:33,219 Our own prisoners are taken care of until the British... 1134 02:28:33,428 --> 02:28:37,265 can relieve us of them, according to the Code. 1135 02:28:37,473 --> 02:28:41,519 - I should like you to notice that. - Yes, sir. 1136 02:28:42,520 --> 02:28:45,148 Is that the influence of Major Lawrence? 1137 02:28:45,606 --> 02:28:46,983 Why should you suppose? 1138 02:28:47,233 --> 02:28:49,652 It's just that I heard in Cairo that... 1139 02:28:49,861 --> 02:28:52,322 Major Lawrence has a horror of bloodshed. 1140 02:28:52,530 --> 02:28:54,240 That is exactly so. 1141 02:28:54,449 --> 02:28:57,952 With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. 1142 02:28:58,286 --> 02:29:01,164 With me, it is merely good manners. 1143 02:29:01,331 --> 02:29:05,501 You may judge which motive is the more reliable. 1144 02:29:06,127 --> 02:29:09,505 - And now, perhaps... - Oh, sure, sure. 1145 02:29:13,634 --> 02:29:15,303 Thank you, sir. 1146 02:29:15,511 --> 02:29:17,263 Can you manage the letter...? 1147 02:29:17,513 --> 02:29:20,350 I'll do everything I have said... 1148 02:29:20,558 --> 02:29:24,145 if you will tell me truly the nature of your interest... 1149 02:29:24,354 --> 02:29:26,773 in my people and Major Lawrence. 1150 02:29:28,691 --> 02:29:31,819 It's very simple, sir. I'm looking for a hero. 1151 02:29:32,028 --> 02:29:34,530 Indeed. You do not seem a romantic man. 1152 02:29:34,864 --> 02:29:35,865 Oh, no. 1153 02:29:36,157 --> 02:29:39,911 But influential men back home believe it's time for America... 1154 02:29:40,161 --> 02:29:42,872 to lend her weight to the struggle against Germany. 1155 02:29:43,081 --> 02:29:45,083 And Turkey. 1156 02:29:45,375 --> 02:29:49,712 I've been sent to find material to show our people that this war is... 1157 02:29:50,213 --> 02:29:52,673 - Enjoyable? - Hardly that, sir. 1158 02:29:52,882 --> 02:29:55,885 But to show it in its more adventurous aspects. 1159 02:29:56,094 --> 02:29:59,722 You look for a figure who will draw your country towards war. 1160 02:30:01,307 --> 02:30:03,101 All right. Yes. 1161 02:30:03,726 --> 02:30:05,395 Lawrence is your man. 1162 02:30:45,268 --> 02:30:46,269 Stop! 1163 02:31:05,663 --> 02:31:07,290 Stop it! 1164 02:31:08,124 --> 02:31:09,500 Stop it! 1165 02:31:17,675 --> 02:31:19,177 Come on, men! 1166 02:32:28,371 --> 02:32:29,705 Lawrence! 1167 02:32:50,393 --> 02:32:52,395 Good God! God! 1168 02:33:38,774 --> 02:33:43,571 Jiminy! Never seen a man killed with a sword before. 1169 02:33:43,821 --> 02:33:46,073 Why don't you take a picture? 1170 02:33:46,449 --> 02:33:47,742 Wish I had. 1171 02:33:51,954 --> 02:33:54,165 How is it with thee, Lawrence? 1172 02:33:56,417 --> 02:33:57,460 Am I in this? 1173 02:33:58,461 --> 02:34:00,171 Did you take his picture? 1174 02:34:00,421 --> 02:34:01,672 Yeah. 1175 02:34:06,093 --> 02:34:10,264 You are using up your nine lives very quickly. 1176 02:34:12,767 --> 02:34:14,810 Charming company you keep. 1177 02:34:15,061 --> 02:34:16,312 Auda? 1178 02:34:17,104 --> 02:34:22,151 He's a bit old-fashioned. He thinks these things will steal his virtue. 1179 02:34:22,485 --> 02:34:24,570 He thinks you're a kind of thief. 1180 02:34:24,820 --> 02:34:26,947 It's all right to take your picture? 1181 02:34:27,490 --> 02:34:28,991 - All right. - Okay. 1182 02:34:29,200 --> 02:34:30,660 Just walk. 1183 02:35:30,886 --> 02:35:33,055 Major Lawrence! 1184 02:35:33,681 --> 02:35:36,392 Yes, sir, that's my baby. 1185 02:35:44,400 --> 02:35:47,027 This looting has got to stop! 1186 02:35:47,236 --> 02:35:48,571 It is customary. 1187 02:35:48,863 --> 02:35:52,408 It's theft. And theft makes thieves. 1188 02:35:52,700 --> 02:35:54,910 I would not say that to Auda. 1189 02:35:55,411 --> 02:35:58,205 - It is their payment, colonel. - Payment. 1190 02:35:58,414 --> 02:36:01,208 Truly. Are not British soldiers paid? 1191 02:36:02,084 --> 02:36:05,421 - They don't go home when being paid. - They are not free to. 1192 02:36:10,217 --> 02:36:14,305 Well, there's another lot you've seen the last of. 1193 02:36:14,597 --> 02:36:16,223 They'll come back. 1194 02:36:17,057 --> 02:36:19,977 He says they'll come back. Will they? 1195 02:36:20,269 --> 02:36:22,438 Not this year, Lawrence. 1196 02:36:23,189 --> 02:36:27,610 Look, Lawrence, how many men do you think you'll have left? 200? 1197 02:36:27,818 --> 02:36:30,613 - Less. - Well, then? 1198 02:36:30,946 --> 02:36:33,282 I said, they'll come back. 1199 02:36:33,991 --> 02:36:35,201 You badly hurt? 1200 02:36:36,744 --> 02:36:38,496 Not hurt at all. 1201 02:36:38,746 --> 02:36:42,917 Didn't you know? They can only kill me with a golden bullet. 1202 02:36:58,641 --> 02:37:02,478 It is for children. I have set myself to learn again. 1203 02:37:02,937 --> 02:37:06,482 - What are you learning from this? - Politics. 1204 02:37:07,149 --> 02:37:11,654 You'll be a democracy in this country? You gonna have a parliament? 1205 02:37:12,321 --> 02:37:14,615 I will tell you that when I have a country. 1206 02:37:16,867 --> 02:37:18,160 Did I answer well? 1207 02:37:18,536 --> 02:37:22,748 You answered without saying anything. That's politics. 1208 02:37:23,999 --> 02:37:25,668 You learn quickly. 1209 02:37:27,002 --> 02:37:29,171 I have a good teacher. 1210 02:37:31,799 --> 02:37:33,175 Yeah. 1211 02:37:40,891 --> 02:37:42,768 - How's your hurt? - Fine. 1212 02:37:42,977 --> 02:37:47,815 Before I return to the fleshpots, which I shall be very glad to do... 1213 02:37:48,023 --> 02:37:51,068 may I put two questions to you, straight? 1214 02:37:51,360 --> 02:37:54,697 I'd be interested to hear you put a question straight. 1215 02:37:54,905 --> 02:37:56,073 One. 1216 02:37:56,532 --> 02:38:00,494 What, in your opinion, do these people hope to gain from this war? 1217 02:38:00,786 --> 02:38:03,205 They hope to gain their freedom. 1218 02:38:04,498 --> 02:38:05,541 Freedom. 1219 02:38:06,834 --> 02:38:09,670 "They hope to gain their freedom." 1220 02:38:09,879 --> 02:38:13,549 - There's one born every minute. - They're going to get it. 1221 02:38:14,341 --> 02:38:16,552 I'm going to give it to them. 1222 02:38:18,220 --> 02:38:24,059 - The second question? - Well, I was going to ask... 1223 02:38:24,560 --> 02:38:28,522 what is it that attracts you personally to the desert? 1224 02:38:30,524 --> 02:38:32,568 It's clean. 1225 02:38:35,404 --> 02:38:36,947 Well, now... 1226 02:38:37,823 --> 02:38:39,950 that's a very illuminating answer. 1227 02:38:40,326 --> 02:38:41,952 May I... 1228 02:38:42,578 --> 02:38:45,080 take one farewell picture? 1229 02:38:45,915 --> 02:38:48,959 I gave Math Budad two lamps for it. 1230 02:38:49,251 --> 02:38:52,212 One clock for two lamps. 1231 02:38:52,713 --> 02:38:53,923 A fair bargain. 1232 02:38:54,131 --> 02:38:56,759 Fair? I robbed him. 1233 02:39:08,228 --> 02:39:09,730 Trash. 1234 02:39:10,856 --> 02:39:13,275 I must find something honorable. 1235 02:39:13,567 --> 02:39:15,110 Honorable? 1236 02:39:15,736 --> 02:39:19,490 The year is running out, Brighton. 1237 02:39:23,911 --> 02:39:26,914 I must find something honorable. 1238 02:41:58,440 --> 02:42:00,609 Now you may blow up my train. 1239 02:42:00,901 --> 02:42:02,611 And what will you do now? 1240 02:42:02,820 --> 02:42:07,407 Now I go home. They will carry my toys. 1241 02:42:08,158 --> 02:42:10,160 They will carry my toys too, see? 1242 02:42:10,577 --> 02:42:13,622 Major Lawrence will campaign this winter. 1243 02:42:13,914 --> 02:42:17,292 But you got what you wanted, so you're going home, is that it? 1244 02:42:17,459 --> 02:42:22,131 Of course. When Lawrence has got what he wants, he will go home. 1245 02:42:22,339 --> 02:42:24,925 When you've got what you want, you will go home. 1246 02:42:25,134 --> 02:42:26,802 No, I shan't, Auda. 1247 02:42:27,594 --> 02:42:28,971 Then you are a fool. 1248 02:42:29,638 --> 02:42:32,641 Maybe. But I am not a deserter. 1249 02:42:33,767 --> 02:42:35,978 Give thanks to God, Brighton... 1250 02:42:36,186 --> 02:42:39,314 that when he made you a fool, he gave you a fool's face. 1251 02:42:40,566 --> 02:42:42,651 You are an impudent rascal. 1252 02:42:44,153 --> 02:42:48,490 I must go, Lawrence, before I soil myself with a fool's blood. 1253 02:42:58,876 --> 02:43:00,627 Like talking to a brick wall. 1254 02:43:09,303 --> 02:43:11,972 So what will you do now? What can you do? 1255 02:43:12,639 --> 02:43:14,349 I'll go north. 1256 02:43:15,684 --> 02:43:17,519 That's what Allenby wants. 1257 02:43:17,728 --> 02:43:21,857 Allenby wanted the Arab army behind Deraa. 1258 02:43:22,107 --> 02:43:24,359 Then that's where I'll take it. 1259 02:43:25,360 --> 02:43:30,199 Tell Allenby to hurry up, or we'll be in Deraa before he's in Jerusalem. 1260 02:43:30,490 --> 02:43:31,658 Won't we? 1261 02:44:04,149 --> 02:44:05,192 Train, Farraj. 1262 02:44:06,235 --> 02:44:07,736 Yeah, Lawrence. 1263 02:44:36,932 --> 02:44:38,767 Hide yourself, my friend. 1264 02:44:47,985 --> 02:44:49,444 Detonator. 1265 02:45:02,958 --> 02:45:04,626 All right, fetch another. 1266 02:45:04,835 --> 02:45:08,630 - Pardon, Lawrence. I put... - Plenty of time. Fetch another. 1267 02:45:14,094 --> 02:45:15,470 Farraj? 1268 02:45:25,772 --> 02:45:28,817 - What happened? - Detonator. A detonator! 1269 02:45:42,331 --> 02:45:44,833 He cannot ride, Lawrence. Look. 1270 02:45:54,343 --> 02:45:57,179 If they take him alive, you know what they'll do to him. 1271 02:46:09,566 --> 02:46:12,027 Daud will be angry with you. 1272 02:46:13,028 --> 02:46:14,905 Salute him for me. 1273 02:46:34,716 --> 02:46:36,385 What will you do now? 1274 02:46:37,844 --> 02:46:39,346 Go north. 1275 02:46:39,554 --> 02:46:41,014 With twenty? 1276 02:46:41,890 --> 02:46:44,351 What would you recommend me to do? 1277 02:46:46,061 --> 02:46:48,063 What would you recommend? 1278 02:46:53,068 --> 02:46:55,404 He hasn't 1/10 so many men, sir. 1279 02:46:55,570 --> 02:46:57,447 He's lied, in fact. 1280 02:46:58,824 --> 02:47:02,536 Yes and no. He doesn't claim to have done anything he hasn't done. 1281 02:47:02,744 --> 02:47:05,414 Then there is an Arab north army. 1282 02:47:06,915 --> 02:47:11,420 - No, sir, he has lied about that. - Any idea why? 1283 02:47:11,837 --> 02:47:15,841 - It's his army, I suppose. - It's Prince Feisal's army. 1284 02:47:17,259 --> 02:47:19,761 Do you think he's gone native, Harry? 1285 02:47:21,096 --> 02:47:22,722 No. 1286 02:47:23,765 --> 02:47:27,477 He would if he could, I think. 1287 02:47:29,271 --> 02:47:32,732 - Not my line of country. - It doesn't matter. Just curious. 1288 02:47:33,442 --> 02:47:35,652 What matters is I believed it. 1289 02:47:35,944 --> 02:47:37,612 The Turks believe it. 1290 02:47:37,904 --> 02:47:41,283 They are offering 20,000 pounds for him. 1291 02:47:43,243 --> 02:47:44,995 Good heavens. 1292 02:47:45,454 --> 02:47:49,166 - Shouldn't say he had long to live. - Whatever else, he's a brave man... 1293 02:47:49,416 --> 02:47:53,795 Surely, surely. If he's still going north with 50 men, he doesn't lack guts. 1294 02:47:54,963 --> 02:47:57,757 I wonder if they'd offer that much for me. 1295 02:47:59,468 --> 02:48:03,597 What about next year? Will they still come back? 1296 02:48:03,805 --> 02:48:05,807 I wouldn't be surprised. 1297 02:48:06,016 --> 02:48:09,644 - They think he's a kind of prophet. - They do or he does? 1298 02:48:25,285 --> 02:48:27,829 - Now may I speak? - Yes. 1299 02:48:28,497 --> 02:48:31,666 One more failure and you will find yourself alone. 1300 02:48:33,043 --> 02:48:36,546 - I do not include myself. - I do not include the others. 1301 02:48:36,838 --> 02:48:39,007 So say they love you. 1302 02:48:39,466 --> 02:48:41,968 The more reason to be thrifty with them. 1303 02:48:42,177 --> 02:48:45,305 Give them something to do that can be done. But you, no. 1304 02:48:45,514 --> 02:48:47,682 They must move mountains, walk on water. 1305 02:48:47,933 --> 02:48:51,144 That's right. That's right. 1306 02:48:51,728 --> 02:48:54,231 Who are you to know what can be done? 1307 02:48:54,689 --> 02:48:58,360 If we'd done what you thought could be done, we'd be in Yenbo now. 1308 02:48:58,944 --> 02:49:03,365 Whatever I ask them to do can be done. They know that if you don't. 1309 02:49:05,492 --> 02:49:08,453 Do you think I'm just anybody? 1310 02:49:08,954 --> 02:49:10,330 Do you? 1311 02:49:13,542 --> 02:49:16,878 My friends, who will walk on water with me? 1312 02:49:20,340 --> 02:49:24,719 - Who will come with me into Deraa? - Deraa is garrisoned. 1313 02:49:24,886 --> 02:49:27,013 Will you take 20 against 2000? 1314 02:49:27,222 --> 02:49:30,976 - I'll go by myself if I have to. - Why? 1315 02:49:31,226 --> 02:49:33,061 Because I told the English generals... 1316 02:49:33,353 --> 02:49:36,982 the Arab revolt would be in Deraa when they'd be in Jerusalem. 1317 02:49:37,399 --> 02:49:39,526 Or perhaps you are here... 1318 02:49:40,110 --> 02:49:42,070 for the English generals. 1319 02:49:44,114 --> 02:49:45,782 Who says this? 1320 02:49:46,074 --> 02:49:47,409 Rumor. 1321 02:49:48,743 --> 02:49:51,246 That is not an argument. 1322 02:49:51,496 --> 02:49:53,707 Oh, argument. 1323 02:49:53,915 --> 02:49:57,252 This afternoon I will take the Arab revolt into Deraa... 1324 02:49:57,544 --> 02:49:59,921 while the Arabs argue. 1325 02:50:01,881 --> 02:50:05,010 Can you pass for an Arab in an Arab town? 1326 02:50:05,385 --> 02:50:09,139 Yes. If one of you would lend me some dirty clothes. 1327 02:50:18,398 --> 02:50:19,608 It's madness. 1328 02:50:23,111 --> 02:50:24,904 What are you looking for? 1329 02:50:25,113 --> 02:50:27,616 Some way to announce myself. 1330 02:50:27,824 --> 02:50:29,784 Be patient with him, God. 1331 02:50:43,173 --> 02:50:47,469 - Do you not see how they look at you? - Peace, Ali, I am invisible. 1332 02:50:47,636 --> 02:50:48,970 Halt! 1333 02:50:49,179 --> 02:50:50,430 Walk on. 1334 02:50:50,639 --> 02:50:52,474 - Halt! - Walk on. 1335 02:50:53,642 --> 02:50:55,810 You and you. 1336 02:52:36,953 --> 02:52:38,037 You. 1337 02:52:54,596 --> 02:52:56,598 You have blue eyes. 1338 02:52:57,474 --> 02:53:01,728 - I say you have blue eyes. - Yes, effendi. 1339 02:53:01,936 --> 02:53:05,231 - Are you Circassian? - Yes, effendi. 1340 02:53:06,107 --> 02:53:07,692 How old are you? 1341 02:53:07,942 --> 02:53:10,945 Twenty-seven, effendi. 1342 02:53:11,196 --> 02:53:13,072 I think. 1343 02:53:13,281 --> 02:53:17,827 You look older. You have had a lot of experience. 1344 02:53:19,120 --> 02:53:21,206 It's an interesting face. 1345 02:53:25,835 --> 02:53:28,296 I am surrounded by cattle. 1346 02:53:28,963 --> 02:53:32,634 He wouldn't know an interesting face from a sow's belly. 1347 02:53:33,635 --> 02:53:37,639 I have been is Deraa now for three and a half years. 1348 02:53:37,847 --> 02:53:42,268 If they posted me to the dark side of the moon, I could not be more... 1349 02:53:42,477 --> 02:53:44,312 isolated. 1350 02:53:46,231 --> 02:53:48,817 You haven't the least idea what I'm talking about. 1351 02:53:49,108 --> 02:53:50,819 No, effendi. 1352 02:53:53,363 --> 02:53:54,781 Have you? 1353 02:53:55,990 --> 02:53:57,283 No. 1354 02:53:57,992 --> 02:53:59,828 That would be too... 1355 02:54:00,036 --> 02:54:01,663 lucky. 1356 02:54:26,145 --> 02:54:27,897 Where did you get that? 1357 02:54:29,816 --> 02:54:33,987 - It's old, effendi. - No, this is recent. 1358 02:54:36,030 --> 02:54:38,283 - You are a deserter. - No, effendi. 1359 02:54:38,533 --> 02:54:40,410 Yes, you are a deserter. 1360 02:54:41,536 --> 02:54:43,788 But from which army? 1361 02:54:46,291 --> 02:54:48,543 Not that it matters at all. 1362 02:54:48,877 --> 02:54:51,212 A man cannot be always in uniform. 1363 02:55:02,724 --> 02:55:04,684 Your skin is very fair. 1364 02:55:23,578 --> 02:55:24,871 Beat him. 1365 02:56:59,424 --> 02:57:00,800 To me! 1366 02:59:03,297 --> 02:59:04,841 Sleep. 1367 02:59:06,634 --> 02:59:08,177 Sleep. 1368 02:59:19,981 --> 02:59:21,315 Eat. 1369 02:59:27,155 --> 02:59:28,447 Eat. 1370 02:59:32,285 --> 02:59:35,121 You have a body, like other men. 1371 02:59:43,629 --> 02:59:44,672 Good. 1372 02:59:45,840 --> 02:59:47,633 Then sleep. 1373 03:00:01,147 --> 03:00:02,398 Better? 1374 03:00:03,024 --> 03:00:05,735 Much better. You were right. 1375 03:00:06,027 --> 03:00:08,196 Rest, rest. Can you not learn? 1376 03:00:09,155 --> 03:00:11,199 Oh, I've learned all right. 1377 03:00:16,996 --> 03:00:18,706 I'm going, Ali. 1378 03:00:19,749 --> 03:00:21,876 - Why? - Why? 1379 03:00:23,169 --> 03:00:24,420 Heavens. 1380 03:00:24,712 --> 03:00:26,005 Why? 1381 03:00:26,881 --> 03:00:29,133 I've come to the end of myself, I suppose. 1382 03:00:29,383 --> 03:00:31,385 And the end of the Arab revolt? 1383 03:00:31,677 --> 03:00:34,764 I'm not the Arab revolt, Ali. I'm not even Arab. 1384 03:00:35,056 --> 03:00:38,059 A man can be whatever he wants. You said. 1385 03:00:38,351 --> 03:00:41,354 I'm sorry. I thought it was true. 1386 03:00:41,562 --> 03:00:43,522 You proved it. 1387 03:00:43,731 --> 03:00:45,900 Look, Ali. Look. 1388 03:00:46,192 --> 03:00:49,946 That's me. What color is it? That's me. 1389 03:00:50,738 --> 03:00:53,074 And there's nothing I can do about it. 1390 03:00:53,241 --> 03:00:55,910 A man can do whatever he wants. You said. 1391 03:00:57,703 --> 03:00:59,163 He can... 1392 03:00:59,372 --> 03:01:02,250 but he can't want what he wants. 1393 03:01:03,209 --> 03:01:06,420 This is the stuff that decides what he wants. 1394 03:01:09,257 --> 03:01:13,052 You may as well know. I would've told them anything. 1395 03:01:13,261 --> 03:01:17,223 I would've told them who I am. I would've told them where you were. 1396 03:01:17,431 --> 03:01:20,226 - I tried to. - So would any man. 1397 03:01:20,434 --> 03:01:23,938 Well, any man is what I am. 1398 03:01:24,939 --> 03:01:28,943 And I'm going back to Allenby to ask him for a job... 1399 03:01:29,235 --> 03:01:31,279 that any man can do. 1400 03:01:31,570 --> 03:01:33,447 Allenby's in Jerusalem. 1401 03:01:33,739 --> 03:01:36,450 - I'll make easy stages. - You? 1402 03:01:37,994 --> 03:01:41,455 Oh, yes. Easy stages. 1403 03:01:43,249 --> 03:01:47,795 Look, Ali, I think I see a way of being just... 1404 03:01:48,004 --> 03:01:49,630 ordinarily... 1405 03:01:50,298 --> 03:01:51,716 happy. 1406 03:01:55,511 --> 03:01:57,138 Can I take this? 1407 03:01:57,763 --> 03:01:59,640 It is not clean. 1408 03:01:59,932 --> 03:02:02,977 No, but it's warm. 1409 03:02:03,352 --> 03:02:04,645 And these... 1410 03:02:04,854 --> 03:02:08,816 having led them here, have you no care for them? 1411 03:02:10,318 --> 03:02:15,489 You lead them. They're yours. Trust your own people. 1412 03:02:17,742 --> 03:02:19,952 And let me go back to mine. 1413 03:02:49,065 --> 03:02:52,193 - I say, don't forget those form fives. - All right. 1414 03:02:58,032 --> 03:02:59,867 Mind if I join you? 1415 03:03:00,701 --> 03:03:02,370 Honored, sir. 1416 03:03:04,705 --> 03:03:08,042 - Good to be back. - We heard you were, sir. 1417 03:03:08,584 --> 03:03:11,170 - What's doing out there? - Where? 1418 03:03:11,379 --> 03:03:13,672 - Arabia? - Well, yes, sir. 1419 03:03:13,881 --> 03:03:17,218 Nothing much. Wrong time of year. What's doing here? 1420 03:03:17,510 --> 03:03:19,887 We're settling in. We built a squash court. 1421 03:03:20,096 --> 03:03:21,555 Jolly good. 1422 03:03:22,390 --> 03:03:26,394 Well, I have to go up there. 1423 03:03:27,395 --> 03:03:29,855 It's borrowed. Someone pinched mine. 1424 03:03:30,064 --> 03:03:31,816 Bloody wogs. 1425 03:03:33,234 --> 03:03:35,111 Yes, probably. 1426 03:03:35,861 --> 03:03:38,239 Jolly good about the squash court. 1427 03:03:40,950 --> 03:03:43,452 Lays it on a bit thick, doesn't he? 1428 03:03:56,715 --> 03:03:57,967 Morning. 1429 03:03:58,134 --> 03:03:59,927 - Good morning, sir. - Good to be back. 1430 03:04:00,219 --> 03:04:03,264 - I'll believe you, sir. - No, really it is. 1431 03:04:06,559 --> 03:04:07,893 Hello. 1432 03:04:08,477 --> 03:04:11,605 Morning. You're to go right in. 1433 03:04:23,617 --> 03:04:25,119 Lawrence. 1434 03:04:26,912 --> 03:04:29,457 Or is it Major Lawrence? 1435 03:04:30,124 --> 03:04:31,500 Sir. 1436 03:04:37,298 --> 03:04:39,133 Well, general, I will leave you. 1437 03:04:39,425 --> 03:04:42,303 Major Lawrence doubtless has reports to make... 1438 03:04:42,595 --> 03:04:46,390 about my people and their weakness... 1439 03:04:46,640 --> 03:04:51,437 and the need to keep them weak in the British interest. 1440 03:04:53,939 --> 03:04:57,485 And the French interest too. We must not forget the French. 1441 03:04:57,651 --> 03:04:59,695 I told you, sir, no such treaty exists. 1442 03:04:59,987 --> 03:05:04,450 Yes, general, you have lied most bravely, but not convincingly. 1443 03:05:04,658 --> 03:05:06,660 I know this treaty does exist. 1444 03:05:06,911 --> 03:05:08,829 Treaty, sir? 1445 03:05:10,998 --> 03:05:13,000 He does it better than you, general. 1446 03:05:13,292 --> 03:05:16,545 But then, of course, he is almost an Arab. 1447 03:05:30,726 --> 03:05:32,353 You really don't know? 1448 03:05:34,688 --> 03:05:36,690 Then what the devil's this? 1449 03:05:37,691 --> 03:05:41,570 It's my request for release from Arabia, sir. 1450 03:05:41,820 --> 03:05:43,197 For what reason? 1451 03:05:43,364 --> 03:05:45,699 You sure you haven't heard of the Sykes-Picot Treaty? 1452 03:05:45,866 --> 03:05:47,243 No. 1453 03:05:48,035 --> 03:05:51,205 - I can guess. - Don't guess. Tell him. 1454 03:05:52,998 --> 03:05:54,375 Well, now... 1455 03:05:54,833 --> 03:05:57,878 Mr. Sykes is an English civil servant. 1456 03:05:58,087 --> 03:06:01,215 Monsieur Picot is a French civil servant. 1457 03:06:01,382 --> 03:06:05,594 Mr. Sykes and Monsieur Picot met, and they agreed that after the war... 1458 03:06:05,886 --> 03:06:09,223 France and England should share the Turkish Empire. 1459 03:06:09,515 --> 03:06:11,225 Including Arabia. 1460 03:06:11,517 --> 03:06:15,563 They signed an agreement, not a treaty, sir. 1461 03:06:15,771 --> 03:06:18,899 An agreement to that effect. 1462 03:06:19,567 --> 03:06:23,112 There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians. 1463 03:06:23,404 --> 03:06:26,115 And let's have no displays of indignation. 1464 03:06:26,407 --> 03:06:29,535 You may not have known, but you certainly had suspicions. 1465 03:06:30,035 --> 03:06:33,372 If we've told lies, you've told half-lies. 1466 03:06:33,581 --> 03:06:38,043 And a man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. 1467 03:06:38,252 --> 03:06:43,007 But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it. 1468 03:06:43,591 --> 03:06:46,885 The truth is I'm an ordinary man. 1469 03:06:47,386 --> 03:06:49,763 You might have told me that, Dryden. 1470 03:06:51,265 --> 03:06:53,267 And I want an ordinary job, sir. 1471 03:06:53,517 --> 03:06:55,811 That's my reason for resigning. 1472 03:06:57,104 --> 03:06:58,772 It's personal. 1473 03:06:58,939 --> 03:07:01,150 - Personal? - Yes, sir. 1474 03:07:01,442 --> 03:07:04,528 Personal? You're a serving officer in the field. 1475 03:07:04,778 --> 03:07:08,115 And as it happens, a damned important one. Are you mad? 1476 03:07:08,407 --> 03:07:11,619 No, and if you don't mind, I'd rather not go mad. 1477 03:07:11,827 --> 03:07:13,912 That's my reason too. 1478 03:07:14,079 --> 03:07:19,126 Look, I'm making my big push on Damascus the 16th of next month... 1479 03:07:19,293 --> 03:07:21,295 and you are part of it. 1480 03:07:21,795 --> 03:07:25,466 Can you understand that? You're an important part of the big push! 1481 03:07:25,674 --> 03:07:29,595 I don't want to be part of your big push! 1482 03:07:30,304 --> 03:07:32,348 What about your Arab friends? 1483 03:07:32,598 --> 03:07:36,435 I have no Arab friends! I don't want Arab friends! 1484 03:07:36,644 --> 03:07:38,812 What in hell do you want, Lawrence? 1485 03:07:39,063 --> 03:07:44,151 I've told you, I just want my ration of common humanity. 1486 03:07:44,443 --> 03:07:47,321 - Lawrence. - Yes? 1487 03:07:50,074 --> 03:07:52,826 Nothing. Sorry I interrupted, sir. 1488 03:07:53,077 --> 03:07:55,162 That's all right. Thank you, Mr. Dryden. 1489 03:07:55,454 --> 03:07:57,164 Thank you, sir. 1490 03:07:58,207 --> 03:08:00,459 Why don't we...? 1491 03:08:03,003 --> 03:08:04,838 There's blood on your back. 1492 03:08:06,131 --> 03:08:09,218 - Do you want a doctor? - No. 1493 03:08:10,386 --> 03:08:12,596 Tell me what happened. 1494 03:08:17,518 --> 03:08:19,687 Say, what goes on in there? 1495 03:08:20,479 --> 03:08:22,356 - Nothing. - Oh, come on! 1496 03:08:22,606 --> 03:08:26,026 - No, really. Nothing at all. - Is the man in trouble? 1497 03:08:26,235 --> 03:08:30,197 I expect so. We all have troubles. Life's a vale of troubles. 1498 03:08:30,489 --> 03:08:34,368 Let me know if the man's in trouble. I've got a claim in that man. 1499 03:08:34,618 --> 03:08:38,038 - What claim? - I've made that boy a hero. 1500 03:08:38,247 --> 03:08:40,999 When the war's over, he can be anything he wants. 1501 03:08:41,208 --> 03:08:45,546 Yes. Well, at the moment he wants to be somebody else. 1502 03:08:46,046 --> 03:08:48,882 Will you kindly allow me to pass? 1503 03:08:49,425 --> 03:08:51,885 Walk away, Dryden, walk away. 1504 03:08:52,177 --> 03:08:54,930 Always walking away, aren't you? 1505 03:08:55,222 --> 03:08:56,724 Well, I'll tell you. 1506 03:08:56,932 --> 03:08:59,893 It's a clash of temperament that's going on in there. 1507 03:09:00,144 --> 03:09:03,063 Inevitably, one of them's half-mad... 1508 03:09:03,272 --> 03:09:06,066 and the other, wholly unscrupulous. 1509 03:09:06,900 --> 03:09:09,903 I believe your name will be a household word... 1510 03:09:10,404 --> 03:09:14,074 when you'd have to go to the war museum to find who Allenby was. 1511 03:09:14,950 --> 03:09:17,870 You're the most extraordinary man I ever met. 1512 03:09:18,454 --> 03:09:19,955 Leave me alone. 1513 03:09:20,247 --> 03:09:22,750 - Leave me alone. - That's a feeble thing to say. 1514 03:09:22,958 --> 03:09:25,586 - I know I'm not ordinary. - That's not what I'm saying. 1515 03:09:25,794 --> 03:09:28,589 All right, I'm extraordinary. 1516 03:09:30,591 --> 03:09:31,675 What of it? 1517 03:09:32,050 --> 03:09:34,762 Not many people have a destiny, Lawrence. 1518 03:09:34,928 --> 03:09:38,098 It's a terrible thing for a man to flunk it if he has. 1519 03:09:38,265 --> 03:09:40,434 Are you speaking from experience? 1520 03:09:40,726 --> 03:09:42,102 No. 1521 03:09:42,269 --> 03:09:44,104 You're guessing, then. 1522 03:09:45,272 --> 03:09:46,607 Suppose you're wrong. 1523 03:09:46,899 --> 03:09:49,943 Why suppose that? We both know I'm right. 1524 03:09:50,778 --> 03:09:53,739 - Yes. I said, yes. - After all... 1525 03:09:56,283 --> 03:09:58,327 - The 16th? - Can you do it? 1526 03:09:58,494 --> 03:10:00,621 I'll give you a lot of money. 1527 03:10:00,913 --> 03:10:03,749 - Artillery? - I can't. 1528 03:10:04,958 --> 03:10:07,920 They won't be coming for money, not the best of them. 1529 03:10:08,212 --> 03:10:10,422 They'll be coming for Damascus. 1530 03:10:11,465 --> 03:10:13,509 Which I'm going to give them. 1531 03:10:14,259 --> 03:10:16,011 That's all I want. 1532 03:10:17,095 --> 03:10:19,973 All you want is someone holding down the Turkish Right. 1533 03:10:20,224 --> 03:10:24,478 But I'm going to give them Damascus. We'll get there before you do. 1534 03:10:24,770 --> 03:10:27,940 And when we've got it, we'll keep it. 1535 03:10:28,148 --> 03:10:30,526 Tell the politicians to burn their paper now. 1536 03:10:30,776 --> 03:10:32,110 Fair enough. 1537 03:10:32,611 --> 03:10:35,489 Fair? What's fair got to do with it? 1538 03:10:36,240 --> 03:10:38,158 It's going to happen. 1539 03:10:38,826 --> 03:10:40,953 I shall want quite a lot of money. 1540 03:10:41,662 --> 03:10:43,330 All there is. 1541 03:10:43,831 --> 03:10:45,457 Not that much. 1542 03:10:48,752 --> 03:10:51,505 The best of them won't come for money. 1543 03:10:53,382 --> 03:10:54,800 They'll come for me. 1544 03:11:13,277 --> 03:11:14,528 No pictures! 1545 03:11:14,820 --> 03:11:17,155 It's not for you, it's for Major Lawrence. 1546 03:11:17,364 --> 03:11:21,535 He doesn't mind having his picture taken. He doesn't mind at all. 1547 03:11:21,785 --> 03:11:24,037 Well, there's only one Lawrence. 1548 03:11:28,500 --> 03:11:31,086 Have you met Major Lawrence since he's come back? 1549 03:11:31,378 --> 03:11:32,671 Yes. 1550 03:11:32,838 --> 03:11:35,215 - Changed, hasn't he? - No. 1551 03:11:35,382 --> 03:11:38,302 Oh, I'd say he had. Different man, I'd say. 1552 03:11:43,056 --> 03:11:46,727 What did that Turkish general do to him in Deraa? 1553 03:11:47,436 --> 03:11:52,232 He was the same man after Deraa. The same man, humbled. 1554 03:11:53,901 --> 03:11:56,445 What did the English general do to him in Jerusalem? 1555 03:11:56,737 --> 03:11:58,405 Search me. Ask Lawrence. 1556 03:11:58,614 --> 03:12:00,574 - I did. - What did he say? 1557 03:12:00,824 --> 03:12:02,409 He laughed. 1558 03:12:02,910 --> 03:12:05,537 He told me to gather the Harith here. 1559 03:12:06,079 --> 03:12:07,623 He offered me money. 1560 03:12:07,915 --> 03:12:09,458 Did you take it? 1561 03:12:10,250 --> 03:12:12,878 No. But many did. 1562 03:12:50,624 --> 03:12:53,669 - What is this? - This is my bodyguard. 1563 03:12:54,378 --> 03:12:57,005 There is not a man without a price on his head. 1564 03:12:57,297 --> 03:13:00,926 - There's a price on my head too. - But these are murderers. 1565 03:13:01,134 --> 03:13:03,136 The sheiks will hang these men. 1566 03:13:03,387 --> 03:13:05,138 These men are mine. 1567 03:13:05,639 --> 03:13:09,977 Lawrence, these things know nothing of the Arab revolt. 1568 03:13:10,310 --> 03:13:13,772 - You, Ghitan of Aleppo. - Sherif? 1569 03:13:13,981 --> 03:13:16,984 - Where do we ride? - Damascus, sherif. 1570 03:13:17,192 --> 03:13:19,111 Aye, but for what? 1571 03:13:19,319 --> 03:13:21,488 Sherif, for Lawrence. 1572 03:13:24,616 --> 03:13:27,953 - You have bought these things. - I bought half the men here, Ali. 1573 03:13:28,161 --> 03:13:30,956 That is different. These are not ordinary men. 1574 03:13:31,164 --> 03:13:34,167 I don't want ordinary men. Hut! 1575 03:13:38,171 --> 03:13:40,007 Damascus! 1576 03:13:40,215 --> 03:13:42,342 Damascus! Damascus! 1577 03:13:42,551 --> 03:13:45,637 Damascus! Damascus! 1578 03:14:19,504 --> 03:14:23,050 Very well, gentlemen. The cavalry's gone through Mazril and Deraa. 1579 03:14:23,341 --> 03:14:26,970 Very good, by the way. Very good indeed. Now your turn. 1580 03:14:27,179 --> 03:14:30,849 If the enemy's retreating in any order, which we'll assume... 1581 03:14:31,016 --> 03:14:32,059 Certainly. 1582 03:14:32,225 --> 03:14:33,977 He can't be far from Mallud... 1583 03:14:34,603 --> 03:14:38,899 in which case I can have him within range by 0900 hours tomorrow. 1584 03:14:39,191 --> 03:14:41,193 Splendid. Philip. 1585 03:14:41,568 --> 03:14:44,237 These are the last infantry supports going up now. 1586 03:14:44,529 --> 03:14:48,075 But Mallud, we could have the fusiliers there by Wednesday. 1587 03:14:48,742 --> 03:14:52,204 That'll do for now. The guns are what matter. 1588 03:14:52,370 --> 03:14:53,622 Any questions? 1589 03:14:54,081 --> 03:14:58,210 This Arab army on the right, sir, what's it consist of? 1590 03:14:58,710 --> 03:15:00,921 Irregular cavalry, sir. About 2000. 1591 03:15:01,088 --> 03:15:03,006 Where are they now? 1592 03:15:03,715 --> 03:15:08,595 - Can only know by being with them. - Then get with them. I want to know. 1593 03:15:08,929 --> 03:15:11,223 Pound them, Charley. 1594 03:15:11,807 --> 03:15:13,225 Pound them. 1595 03:15:23,777 --> 03:15:26,613 God help the men who lie under that. 1596 03:15:26,822 --> 03:15:28,448 They're Turks. 1597 03:15:28,657 --> 03:15:30,325 God help them. 1598 03:16:13,076 --> 03:16:16,830 Well, he's got the bit between his teeth all right. 1599 03:16:17,080 --> 03:16:18,373 Cocky? 1600 03:16:18,582 --> 03:16:20,333 More than cocky, sir. 1601 03:16:20,625 --> 03:16:23,962 He's got the bit between his teeth all right. 1602 03:16:24,171 --> 03:16:27,674 I tell you, sir, I think he'll get to Damascus before we do. 1603 03:16:28,341 --> 03:16:30,177 - Unless... - Unless? 1604 03:16:30,343 --> 03:16:34,222 Well, there's a Turkish column in front of him, out of Mazril. 1605 03:16:34,514 --> 03:16:37,475 - What do the Turks have in Mazril? - A brigade, sir. 1606 03:16:40,478 --> 03:16:42,689 I wonder where they are now. 1607 03:18:24,749 --> 03:18:25,917 No prisoners. 1608 03:18:29,421 --> 03:18:31,506 Damascus, Lawrence. 1609 03:18:41,433 --> 03:18:44,269 Lawrence, not this. 1610 03:18:44,978 --> 03:18:48,982 Go round. Damascus, Lawrence, Damascus. 1611 03:18:49,733 --> 03:18:51,318 No prisoners. 1612 03:19:01,453 --> 03:19:03,038 This was Talaal's village. 1613 03:19:07,292 --> 03:19:09,294 Talaal! 1614 03:19:19,304 --> 03:19:20,513 Talaal! 1615 03:19:29,564 --> 03:19:31,566 No prisoners! 1616 03:19:32,025 --> 03:19:33,151 No prisoners! 1617 03:19:45,038 --> 03:19:46,331 God. 1618 03:19:50,085 --> 03:19:51,419 God. 1619 03:19:53,338 --> 03:19:54,714 God! 1620 03:22:12,018 --> 03:22:15,188 Enough. Enough! Make them stop! 1621 03:23:52,577 --> 03:23:53,786 Major! 1622 03:23:54,454 --> 03:23:56,122 Major Lawrence! 1623 03:24:01,794 --> 03:24:03,421 Jesus wept. 1624 03:24:18,978 --> 03:24:20,271 Jesus wept. 1625 03:24:22,148 --> 03:24:24,192 Does it surprise you, Mr. Bentley? 1626 03:24:24,817 --> 03:24:27,612 Surely you know the Arabs are a barbarous people. 1627 03:24:27,820 --> 03:24:29,656 Barbarous and cruel. 1628 03:24:30,490 --> 03:24:32,367 Who but they? 1629 03:24:32,784 --> 03:24:34,118 Who but they? 1630 03:24:36,454 --> 03:24:38,831 Oh, you rotten man. 1631 03:24:39,874 --> 03:24:44,295 Here, let me take your rotten bloody picture. 1632 03:24:46,381 --> 03:24:48,508 For the rotten bloody newspapers. 1633 03:25:14,992 --> 03:25:18,496 These were cut last night, Lawrence, in Damascus. 1634 03:25:18,913 --> 03:25:20,623 Damascus! 1635 03:25:20,832 --> 03:25:22,709 Take them to Sherif Ali. 1636 03:25:22,917 --> 03:25:24,335 Tell him. 1637 03:25:25,336 --> 03:25:27,046 Remind him. 1638 03:25:27,880 --> 03:25:31,008 - Is Allenby in Damascus? - Near. 1639 03:25:31,843 --> 03:25:34,137 Tell Sherif Ali that. 1640 03:25:35,388 --> 03:25:37,223 They are not ripe. 1641 03:25:43,187 --> 03:25:45,231 General salute! 1642 03:25:45,398 --> 03:25:50,111 Present arms! 1643 03:26:02,039 --> 03:26:03,916 Port arms! 1644 03:26:06,711 --> 03:26:08,588 Lawrence is behind it, sir. 1645 03:26:08,796 --> 03:26:11,674 The whole town is plastered with the Arab flag. 1646 03:26:17,972 --> 03:26:19,766 - When? - A day and a night, sir. 1647 03:26:19,974 --> 03:26:21,893 They've been here a day and a night. 1648 03:26:22,101 --> 03:26:24,604 They've occupied the town. They've done it. 1649 03:26:24,896 --> 03:26:28,775 He's set up his own headquarters in the town hall. 1650 03:26:29,692 --> 03:26:31,486 What else beside the town hall? 1651 03:26:31,778 --> 03:26:34,614 Telephone exchange, post office, powerhouse... 1652 03:26:34,906 --> 03:26:37,283 hospitals, fire station. Everything, sir. 1653 03:26:37,492 --> 03:26:40,453 They call themselves the Arab National Council... 1654 03:26:40,620 --> 03:26:42,288 and they're in the town hall. 1655 03:26:42,580 --> 03:26:45,458 Well, they're your pigeon, Harry. 1656 03:26:47,126 --> 03:26:48,628 What should we do about it? 1657 03:26:48,836 --> 03:26:51,255 Get them out of it, sir, quick time. 1658 03:26:52,131 --> 03:26:53,966 How about that, Dryden? 1659 03:26:55,760 --> 03:26:58,471 Not unless you want a full-scale rising. 1660 03:26:59,263 --> 03:27:02,308 - What, then? - When will Feisal be in Damascus? 1661 03:27:02,475 --> 03:27:04,519 By special train in two days' time. 1662 03:27:04,811 --> 03:27:06,103 Two days. 1663 03:27:06,270 --> 03:27:09,649 Two days is what you asked for. I can't keep him out any longer. 1664 03:27:09,941 --> 03:27:11,984 - Isn't it enough? - Yes. 1665 03:27:12,151 --> 03:27:15,613 - Ample, I should think. - We can't just do nothing. 1666 03:27:15,822 --> 03:27:19,492 Why not? It's usually best. Get us something to drink, Tracey. 1667 03:27:19,742 --> 03:27:23,996 And Tracey, all troops to remain quartered until further orders. 1668 03:27:24,372 --> 03:27:25,998 Does that apply to technical units? 1669 03:27:26,290 --> 03:27:28,376 Technical units particularly. 1670 03:27:28,668 --> 03:27:30,002 Yes, sir. 1671 03:27:30,545 --> 03:27:32,004 Medicals too, sir? 1672 03:27:32,255 --> 03:27:34,465 I'm afraid so, Harry. 1673 03:27:34,799 --> 03:27:36,509 Medicals too. 1674 03:28:16,883 --> 03:28:18,426 We here... 1675 03:28:18,676 --> 03:28:21,554 are neither Harith nor Howeitat... 1676 03:28:21,721 --> 03:28:24,891 nor any other tribe, but Arabs... 1677 03:28:25,224 --> 03:28:28,686 of the Arab Council, acting for Prince Feisal. 1678 03:28:28,895 --> 03:28:30,938 He insulted me. 1679 03:28:32,064 --> 03:28:36,193 Sherif Ali said that the telephones are in the care of the Howeitat... 1680 03:28:36,402 --> 03:28:39,238 and they have ceased to work. And this is true. 1681 03:28:39,739 --> 03:28:43,451 They will not work because they are given no electricity. 1682 03:28:43,701 --> 03:28:47,246 The electricity is in the care of the Harith. 1683 03:28:49,707 --> 03:28:52,043 If you answer, there will be bloodshed. 1684 03:28:52,919 --> 03:28:56,422 You speak to me of bloodshed? 1685 03:28:59,133 --> 03:29:03,095 I ask pardon of Auda Abu Tayi. 1686 03:29:03,346 --> 03:29:04,889 Humbly? 1687 03:29:05,056 --> 03:29:06,432 Humbly, Harith? 1688 03:29:06,724 --> 03:29:08,726 Yes, humbly. 1689 03:29:09,101 --> 03:29:11,228 This is a new trick. 1690 03:29:12,229 --> 03:29:13,898 Why is there no electricity? 1691 03:29:14,857 --> 03:29:17,610 I have been to that electrical house, Lawrence. 1692 03:29:17,860 --> 03:29:20,738 There are three large machines. 1693 03:29:20,947 --> 03:29:23,282 He means generators! 1694 03:29:23,783 --> 03:29:24,951 So. 1695 03:29:25,409 --> 03:29:27,119 One of them is burning. 1696 03:29:27,370 --> 03:29:30,456 They are of an incredible size, but helpless. 1697 03:29:30,790 --> 03:29:33,501 It is so of all machines. 1698 03:29:33,751 --> 03:29:37,755 Let them burn. What need of telephones? 1699 03:29:40,424 --> 03:29:43,594 - The need is absolute. - Then we need English engineers. 1700 03:29:43,803 --> 03:29:47,473 No. Take English engineers and you take English government. 1701 03:29:47,765 --> 03:29:48,975 Take... 1702 03:29:53,104 --> 03:29:54,313 Fire has broken out. 1703 03:29:54,522 --> 03:29:56,107 - Where? - The Jinsibi district. 1704 03:29:56,315 --> 03:29:59,193 - It is not a district that matters. - It will spread! 1705 03:29:59,485 --> 03:30:01,153 Then use the fire brigade! 1706 03:30:01,445 --> 03:30:04,323 We have tried, but there is no force in the water. 1707 03:30:04,532 --> 03:30:06,033 Then you must carry it. 1708 03:30:06,325 --> 03:30:10,663 - The Ruala do not carry water. - What else are they good for? 1709 03:30:22,967 --> 03:30:26,512 We will hear petitions this afternoon. 1710 03:30:29,348 --> 03:30:31,058 This afternoon! 1711 03:30:54,832 --> 03:30:58,836 - I'll take this up after the war. - Surely we should do something, sir. 1712 03:30:59,045 --> 03:31:03,007 - It's an old man's sport. - Are you an old man, sir? 1713 03:31:03,215 --> 03:31:06,093 All I can say is, sir, it's a heavy responsibility. 1714 03:31:07,553 --> 03:31:08,888 Sorry, sir. 1715 03:31:11,098 --> 03:31:12,767 Maybe it's the bulb. 1716 03:31:17,480 --> 03:31:18,606 No, sir. 1717 03:31:19,065 --> 03:31:20,733 It's the power. 1718 03:31:35,915 --> 03:31:37,291 They're leaving. 1719 03:31:38,000 --> 03:31:39,710 That's it, then. 1720 03:31:40,211 --> 03:31:42,296 Marvelous-looking beggars, aren't they? 1721 03:32:03,526 --> 03:32:06,403 Leave it, Lawrence. Come with me. 1722 03:32:06,654 --> 03:32:08,656 - Come where? - Back. 1723 03:32:13,119 --> 03:32:15,329 I know your heart. 1724 03:32:23,796 --> 03:32:25,422 What is it? 1725 03:32:26,423 --> 03:32:28,092 Is it this? 1726 03:32:30,803 --> 03:32:33,931 I tell you, this is nothing. 1727 03:32:47,111 --> 03:32:48,779 Is it the blood? 1728 03:32:49,572 --> 03:32:52,658 The desert has dried up more blood than you could think of. 1729 03:32:54,201 --> 03:32:58,581 I pray that I may never see the desert again. 1730 03:32:59,665 --> 03:33:00,958 Hear me, God. 1731 03:33:02,668 --> 03:33:06,505 You will come. There is only the desert for you. 1732 03:33:23,355 --> 03:33:24,648 What about you? 1733 03:33:25,649 --> 03:33:29,236 No, I shall stay here and learn politics. 1734 03:33:31,739 --> 03:33:33,157 A very low occupation. 1735 03:33:33,657 --> 03:33:36,702 I had not thought of it when I met you. 1736 03:33:45,669 --> 03:33:48,547 You have tried very hard to give us Damascus. 1737 03:33:48,756 --> 03:33:50,674 It's what I came for. 1738 03:33:54,178 --> 03:33:55,429 And then... 1739 03:33:57,848 --> 03:33:59,225 it would be something. 1740 03:33:59,433 --> 03:34:00,684 Yes. 1741 03:34:01,352 --> 03:34:02,561 Much. 1742 03:34:21,580 --> 03:34:24,041 - He is your friend? - Take your hand away. 1743 03:34:24,250 --> 03:34:25,542 - You love him. - I fear him. 1744 03:34:25,751 --> 03:34:27,586 Then why do you weep? 1745 03:34:27,920 --> 03:34:30,089 If I fear him, who love him... 1746 03:34:30,256 --> 03:34:33,217 how must he fear himself, who hates himself? 1747 03:34:33,592 --> 03:34:36,720 Take your hand away, Howeitat! 1748 03:34:39,098 --> 03:34:42,434 So you are not yet entirely politician. 1749 03:34:42,601 --> 03:34:43,686 Not yet. 1750 03:34:43,936 --> 03:34:48,274 Well, these are new tricks, and I am an old dog. 1751 03:34:48,816 --> 03:34:50,734 And Allah be thanked. 1752 03:34:51,235 --> 03:34:52,611 I'll tell thee what... 1753 03:34:52,903 --> 03:34:56,240 being an Arab will be thornier than you suppose, Harith. 1754 03:35:17,720 --> 03:35:21,015 In all my years, I've never seen anything like it. 1755 03:35:21,307 --> 03:35:24,143 It comes within the jurisdiction of the Arab Council. 1756 03:35:24,351 --> 03:35:28,731 Under the circumstances, I think I must take over. Immediately. 1757 03:35:28,981 --> 03:35:31,984 Under any circumstances at all, you must obey your orders. 1758 03:35:32,276 --> 03:35:33,819 No, sir, I will not. 1759 03:35:34,778 --> 03:35:36,363 Control yourself. 1760 03:35:36,864 --> 03:35:39,992 Now, go over to the town hall and see what they say. 1761 03:35:40,951 --> 03:35:43,245 We did what we could in the civic hospitals. 1762 03:35:43,454 --> 03:35:46,290 But you forgot the Turkish Military Hospital. 1763 03:35:46,665 --> 03:35:51,128 It has 600 beds. There are about 2000 Turkish wounded in it. 1764 03:35:51,795 --> 03:35:56,383 All of whom are the responsibility of your precious Arab Council. 1765 03:36:03,140 --> 03:36:04,558 What's it like? 1766 03:37:21,427 --> 03:37:23,470 This is outrageous! 1767 03:37:24,596 --> 03:37:26,473 Outrageous! 1768 03:37:29,726 --> 03:37:31,437 Outrageous! 1769 03:37:32,563 --> 03:37:34,773 You filthy little wog! 1770 03:37:45,284 --> 03:37:49,371 My friend Lawrence, if I may call him that. 1771 03:37:49,621 --> 03:37:52,082 "My friend Lawrence." 1772 03:37:52,291 --> 03:37:56,920 How many men will claim the right to use that phrase? How proudly. 1773 03:37:57,129 --> 03:37:59,798 He longs for the greenness of his native land. 1774 03:38:00,007 --> 03:38:05,137 He pines for the Gothic cottages of Surrey, is it not? 1775 03:38:05,387 --> 03:38:08,974 Already in imagination, he catches trout... 1776 03:38:09,266 --> 03:38:12,769 and all the activities of the English gentleman. 1777 03:38:12,978 --> 03:38:16,482 That's me you're describing, sir, not Colonel Lawrence. 1778 03:38:17,399 --> 03:38:19,610 You're promoted colonel. 1779 03:38:19,818 --> 03:38:22,279 Yes. What for? 1780 03:38:22,488 --> 03:38:25,657 Take the honor, colonel. Be a little kind. 1781 03:38:25,908 --> 03:38:29,995 As a colonel, you'll have a cabin to yourself on the boat home. 1782 03:38:30,621 --> 03:38:32,915 Then, thank you. 1783 03:38:37,127 --> 03:38:38,337 Well, then... 1784 03:38:38,962 --> 03:38:40,005 Godspeed. 1785 03:38:40,506 --> 03:38:44,426 There's nothing further here for a warrior. 1786 03:38:44,676 --> 03:38:48,805 We drive bargains. Old men's work. 1787 03:38:49,014 --> 03:38:51,350 Young men make wars, and the virtues of war... 1788 03:38:51,517 --> 03:38:53,435 are the virtues of young men. 1789 03:38:53,685 --> 03:38:57,147 Courage and hope for the future. 1790 03:38:57,356 --> 03:39:00,025 Then old men make the peace. 1791 03:39:01,151 --> 03:39:04,029 And the vices of peace are the vices of old men. 1792 03:39:04,238 --> 03:39:06,698 Mistrust and caution. 1793 03:39:07,658 --> 03:39:09,493 It must be so. 1794 03:39:25,884 --> 03:39:30,514 What I owe you is beyond evaluation. 1795 03:39:40,232 --> 03:39:43,902 The powerhouse, the telephone exchange, these I concede. 1796 03:39:44,194 --> 03:39:45,904 The pumping plant I must retain. 1797 03:39:46,113 --> 03:39:48,699 If you retain it, there will be no water. 1798 03:39:48,907 --> 03:39:52,619 - I shall be glad of assistance. - Then you must bring down your flag. 1799 03:39:52,911 --> 03:39:56,748 I shall not, and if your men attempt it, my men will resist it. 1800 03:39:57,040 --> 03:39:58,709 - Have you men? - Enough for that. 1801 03:39:58,917 --> 03:40:01,295 It's a thing that makes an ugly incident. 1802 03:40:01,628 --> 03:40:03,505 I'm sure your government... 1803 03:40:03,755 --> 03:40:07,593 does not wish to appear at the peace conference as an aggressor. 1804 03:40:09,886 --> 03:40:11,388 I say! 1805 03:40:12,764 --> 03:40:14,725 It's Lawrence, isn't it? 1806 03:40:17,060 --> 03:40:19,271 May I shake your hand, sir? 1807 03:40:20,439 --> 03:40:23,066 Just want to be able to say I'd done it, sir. 1808 03:40:26,653 --> 03:40:28,905 Haven't we met before? 1809 03:40:29,114 --> 03:40:30,741 Don't think so, sir. 1810 03:40:30,949 --> 03:40:33,660 No, no, sir, I should remember that. 1811 03:40:38,915 --> 03:40:43,086 It is widely known the Arab Council took power in my name. 1812 03:40:43,295 --> 03:40:45,297 They have no power. It's illusory. 1813 03:40:45,547 --> 03:40:47,966 Illusions can be very powerful. 1814 03:40:48,342 --> 03:40:49,968 Particularly... 1815 03:40:50,844 --> 03:40:53,472 when they take this form. 1816 03:40:55,641 --> 03:40:58,644 The world is delighted at the picture of Damascus... 1817 03:40:58,852 --> 03:41:00,812 liberated by the Arab army. 1818 03:41:01,355 --> 03:41:04,441 Led, may I remind you, by a British-serving officer. 1819 03:41:04,983 --> 03:41:09,988 Ah, yes. But then Lawrence is a sword with two edges. 1820 03:41:10,280 --> 03:41:13,325 We are equally glad to be rid of him, are we not? 1821 03:41:16,953 --> 03:41:19,164 I thought I was a hard man, sir. 1822 03:41:19,998 --> 03:41:22,292 You are merely a general. 1823 03:41:24,836 --> 03:41:26,338 I must be a king. 1824 03:41:29,341 --> 03:41:31,218 Excuse me, sir. 1825 03:41:45,857 --> 03:41:47,150 Well? 1826 03:41:48,026 --> 03:41:49,403 Well... 1827 03:41:49,861 --> 03:41:52,739 it seems we're to have a British waterworks... 1828 03:41:52,989 --> 03:41:55,200 with an Arab flag on it. 1829 03:41:55,409 --> 03:41:57,369 Do you think it was worth it? 1830 03:41:57,536 --> 03:42:00,205 Not my business. Thank God I'm a soldier. 1831 03:42:00,539 --> 03:42:01,707 Yes, sir. 1832 03:42:01,998 --> 03:42:03,625 So you keep saying. 1833 03:42:03,834 --> 03:42:05,419 You, I suspect... 1834 03:42:05,919 --> 03:42:09,840 are chief architect of this compromise. 1835 03:42:10,257 --> 03:42:13,385 - What do you think? - Me, Your Highness? 1836 03:42:14,052 --> 03:42:18,348 On the whole, I wish I'd stayed in Tunbridge Wells. 1837 03:42:56,386 --> 03:42:59,431 Well, sir. Going home. 1838 03:43:01,767 --> 03:43:03,435 Home, sir.