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3:34He was the most extraordinary man I ever knew.
3:37Did you know him well?
3:40I knew him.
3:43Well, nil nisi bonum.
3:46But did he really deserve...
3:48...a place in here?
4:05Lord Allenby, could you give a few words about Lawrence?
4:08What, more words?
4:12The revolt in the desert...
4:14...played a decisive part in the Middle Eastern campaign.
4:18Yes, sir, but about Colonel Lawrence himself.
4:21No, no. I didn't know him well, you know.
4:28Mr. Bentley, you know as much about Lawrence as anybody.
4:32Yes, it was my privilege to know him.
4:35And to make him known to the world.
4:38He was a poet, a scholar and a mighty warrior.
4:42Thank you.
4:43He was also the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum and Bailey.
4:49You, sir. Who are you?
4:51My name is Jackson Bentley.
4:53I overheard your last remark and take the gravest exception.
4:57- He was a great man. - Did you know him?
5:00No, I can't claim to have known him.
5:02I had the honour to shake his hand in Damascus.
5:05Knew him? I never knew him.
5:07He had some minor function on my staff in Cairo.
5:30Michael George Hartley...
5:32...this is a nasty, dark little room.
5:35That's right.
5:37We are not happy in it.
5:39I am. It's better than a nasty, dark little trench.
5:43- Then you're a big noble fellow. - That's right.
5:48Here is William Potter with my newspaper.
5:52- Here you are, tosh. - Thanks.
5:57Would you care for one of Corporal Hartley's cigarettes?
6:01- Is it there? - Of course.
6:04Headlines.
6:06But I bet it isn't mentioned in the Times.
6:10"Bedouin tribes attack Turkish stronghold."
6:15I bet that no one in this headquarters even knows it happened.
6:19Or would care if it did. Allow me to ignite your cigarette.
6:25- Mr. Lawrence? - Yes.
6:27- Flimsy, sir. - Thank you.
6:37You'll do that once too often. It's only flesh and blood.
6:40Michael George Hartley, you're a philosopher.
6:43And you're balmy!
6:59- It damn well hurts! - Certainly, it hurts.
7:03What's the trick, then?
7:05The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.
7:09By the way, if Captain Gibbon should enquire for me...
7:12...tell him I've gone for a chat with the general.
7:17- He's balmy. - He's all right.
7:25Lawrence.
7:28Yes?
7:29You're supposed to be...
7:31Do you usually wear your cap in the mess?
7:34Always.
7:36You should be on duty. Where are you going?
7:38Mustn't talk shop, Freddie, not in the mess.
7:41I'm going for a powwow with the general.
7:43I'm not asking as your superior, but as the secretary of this mess.
7:47We don't want chaps in here who should be on duty.
7:49Where are you going?
7:54I must say, Lawrence!
7:56- Sorry. - You're a clown, Lawrence.
7:59Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers.
8:05Sorry.
8:07It's an intrigue, Dryden.
8:09I do not propose to let an overweening, crass lieutenant...
8:12...thumb his nose at his commander and get away with it.
8:16It doesn't sound as though he'd be any great loss, sir.
8:20Don't try that, Dryden. There's a principle involved.
8:23There is, indeed.
8:25He's of no use here in Cairo.
8:27He might be in Arabia. He knows his stuff, sir.
8:31Knows the books, you mean.
8:32I've already sent out Colonel Brighton, who's a soldier.
8:36If Brighton thinks we should send some arms, we will.
8:41Well, what more do you want?
8:43That there would be no question of Lieutenant Lawrence...
8:46...giving military advice.
8:48By God, I should hope not.
8:50It's just that the Arab Bureau would like its own man on the spot to...
8:55To what?
8:56To make our own appraisal of the situation.
8:59I'll tell you, it's my considered opinion and that of my staff...
9:03...that time spent on the Bedouin will be time wasted.
9:06They're a nation of sheep-stealers.
9:09They did attack Medina.
9:12And the Turks made mincemeat of them.
9:15We don't know that.
9:16We know that they didn't take it. A storm in a teacup, a sideshow.
9:21In my opinion, this whole theatre of operations is a sideshow.
9:26The real war's being fought against Germans, not Turks.
9:29Not here, but on the Western front in the trenches.
9:32Your Bedouin Army, or whatever it calls itself...
9:35...would be a sideshow of a sideshow.
9:38Big things have small beginnings, sir.
9:42Does the Arab Bureau want a big thing in Arabia?
9:45Does the bureau think they'll sit down under us when this war is over?
9:50The bureau thinks the job of the moment, sir, is to win the war.
9:55Don't tell me my duty, Mr. Dryden.
9:59- Lawrence, sir. - Send him in.
10:03Good morning, sir.
10:04Salute.
10:08If you're insubordinate, I shall put you under arrest.
10:11- It's my manner. - Your what?
10:13My manner. It looks insubordinate, but it isn't.
10:16I can't make out whether you're bad-mannered or just half-witted.
10:21- I have the same problem, sir. - Shut up.
10:24The Arab Bureau thinks you would be of use to them in Arabia.
10:27Why, I can't imagine.
10:29You can't perform your present duties properly.
10:33"I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city."
10:37- What? - Themistocles, sir.
10:40- A Greek philosopher. - I know you've been well-educated.
10:43It says so in your dossier.
10:48You're the kind of creature I can't stand, Lawrence.
10:53But I suppose I could be wrong.
10:56All right, Dryden. You can have him for six weeks.
10:59Who knows? It might even make a man of him. Come in!
11:04Yes, what is it?
11:06The convoy will be in Port Said tomorrow night.
11:09- Is that certain? - Yes, sir.
11:12There doesn't seem to be any artillery.
11:15But there must be artillery!
11:20Sir, this is something of an expedition.
11:24He has to get to Yenbo, find a guide, find the Arabs and then get back.
11:28He can't do that in six weeks.
11:32- Two months, then. - Three.
11:35All right, three. Now, will you let me do some work, Mr. Dryden?
11:39Thank you, sir.
11:43I'd like to say, sir, that I am grateful for this.
11:47Shut up and get out.
11:55Sir?
12:02How can I fight a bloody war without bloody artillery?
12:06- How did you do it? - Might better ask why I bothered to.
12:10- Because I'm the man for the job. - I just wonder about that.
12:14Of course I am. What is the job, by the way?
12:17Find Prince Faisal.
12:19Good. And when I've found him?
12:23Find out what kind of a man he is.
12:25Find out what his intentions are. Not his immediate intentions.
12:29That is Colonel Brighton's business, not yours.
12:32I mean, his intentions in Arabia altogether.
12:40That's new.
12:43Where are they now?
12:44Anywhere within 300 miles of Medina.
12:47They're Hashemite Bedouins.
12:49They can cross 60 miles of desert in a day.
12:53Thanks. This is going to be fun.
12:56Lawrence, only two kinds of creature get fun in the desert:
13:00Bedouins and gods, and you're neither. Take it from me.
13:03For ordinary men, it's a burning fiery furnace.
13:07No, Dryden. It's going to be fun.
13:15It is recognised that you have a funny sense of fun.
14:34Here you may drink.
14:39One cup.
14:48You do not drink?
14:51No.
14:53I'll drink when you do.
14:56I am Bedu.
16:57Truly, now, you are a British officer?
17:02Yes.
17:04From Cairo?
17:06Yes.
17:08- You did not ride from Cairo? - No.
17:11Thank heaven. It's 900 miles. I came by boat.
17:16And before?
17:18From Britain?
17:21Yes.
17:23Truly?
17:25From Oxfordshire.
17:29Is that a desert country?
17:31No. A fat country. Fat people.
17:37You are not fat?
17:39No.
17:42I'm different.
18:11Here...
18:14...take it.
18:16First I take you to Lord Faisal, then you give it to me.
18:20Take it now.
18:40Bedu food.
18:57Good.
18:58More?
19:48- Bedu. - Where?
20:11From here to Lord Faisal's camp is Harith country.
20:14Yes, I know.
20:16- I am not Harith. - No.
20:18Hazimi, of the Beni Salem.
20:57Put the right foot in tight. Lock it with your left foot.
21:00When you are ready to go...
21:02...hit her on the shoulder and say, "Hut-hut-hut."
21:23Today will be difficult, but tomorrow, good riding.
21:44I think we reach Masturah Well tomorrow. Yes.
21:47And from Masturah Well to Lord Faisal's camp, one day more.
21:51Now!
22:53Good?
22:54It's all right.
22:57This is a Harith well.
23:00The Harith are a dirty people.
24:24Turks?
24:52Bedu.
25:39Who is he?
26:35He is dead.
26:37Yes.
26:40Why?
26:43This is my well.
26:47I have drunk from it.
26:49You are welcome.
26:53He was my friend.
26:54- That? - Yes, that.
27:07- This pistol yours? - No, his.
27:27His?
27:29Mine.
27:31Then I will use it.
27:41Your friend...
27:45...was a Hazimi of the Beni Salem.
27:47I know.
27:56I am Ali ibn el Kharish.
28:00I have heard of you.
28:03So...
28:07...what was a Hazimi doing here?
28:09He was taking me to help Prince Faisal.
28:13- You've been sent from Cairo. - Yes.
28:17I have been in Cairo for my schooling.
28:21I can both read and write.
28:28My Lord Faisal already has an Englishman.
28:32What is your name?
28:34My name is for my friends.
28:43None of my friends is a murderer.
28:47You are angry, English.
28:57He was nothing.
29:00The well is everything.
29:02The Hazimi may not drink at our wells.
29:06He knew that.
29:09Salaam.
29:12Sharif Ali.
29:14So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe...
29:18...so long will they be a little people...
29:20...a silly people.
29:22Greedy, barbarous and cruel, as you are.
29:41Come.
29:43I will take you to Faisal.
29:44I do not want your company, Sharif.
29:47Wadi Safra is another day from here.
29:50You will not find it, and you will die.
29:54I will find it with this.
30:06Good army compass.
30:09How if I take it?
30:11Then you would be a thief.
30:14Have you no fear, English?
30:16My fear is my concern.
30:19Truly.
30:24God be with you, English.
32:06Hey, you!
32:26- I've been waiting for you. - Did you know I was coming?
32:29I knew someone was coming. Faisal told me.
32:32How did he know?
32:33Not much happens within 50 miles of Faisal that he doesn't know.
32:36I'll give him that. No escort?
32:39My guide was killed at the Masturah Well.
32:41- Turks? - No, an Arab.
32:45Bloody savages.
32:49- This is Wadi Safra, isn't it? - Yes, they're over there.
32:52Just a minute. What's your name and who sent you?
32:55Lawrence. I've been seconded to the Arab Bureau.
33:02What are you to do for the Arab Bureau?
33:04Well, it's rather vague, sir. I'm to appreciate the situation.
33:10Well, that won't be difficult. The situation's bloody awful.
33:14Their morale, if they ever had any, which I doubt...
33:17...the Turks knocked out of them in front of Medina, with howitzers.
33:22They're fading away by dozens every night.
33:24What I want to say is this:
33:26Wherever you are and whoever you are with...
33:29...you're a British officer. Here's an order.
33:31When we get into that camp, you're to keep your mouth shut.
33:35- Do you understand what I'm saying? - I understand what you're saying.
33:39You'll make your appreciation and get back to...
33:45Oh, my God.
33:47Not again.
34:18I've told him! God knows I've told him.
34:21"Move South," I've said. "You're still in range."
34:26They simply will not understand what modern weapons do!
34:56Stand and fight. Stand and fight.
35:05Fire back at them.
36:18- Who are you? - Lieutenant Lawrence, sir.
36:22Seconded to the Arab Bureau.
36:24This is a bloody mess, sir. We'll have to move south.
36:27Yes, colonel, 50 miles south.
36:30You were right and I was wrong.
36:33We must take some thought for the wounded.
36:35- We can take care of them at Yenbo. - If they can get to Yenbo.
36:39They can hardly come with us.
36:41No. They must try to reach Yenbo. Lieutenant...?
36:46Lawrence.
36:47You understand, Lieutenant Lawrence...
36:50...my people are unused to explosives and machines.
36:55First the guns, and now this.
37:54Cigarette?
37:55I'm sorry.
38:08Cigarette, Your Excellency?
38:10Umph off.
38:13Please, Your Excellency. Just one for two?
38:33Hold it, Jenkins!
38:39Jenkins!
38:50Lawrence?
38:54You have no servant.
38:55- I don't need a servant. - No?
38:58We can do everything. Light fires, cook food, wash clothes.
39:02- Yes, everything. - I don't doubt it.
39:04- It will be very nice for you. - I can't afford it.
39:30Recite, then, as much of the Koran as may be easy to you.
39:35God knoweth that there be some among you sick...
39:40...while others travel through the Earth in quest for the bounties of God.
39:46Others do battle in his cause.
39:51Recite, therefore, as much as may be easy.
39:56And observe the prayers.
40:00This will be best and richest in the recompense.
40:06Seek ye the forgiveness of God.
40:11Verily, God is forgiving, merciful...
40:16Greetings, Ali.
40:18- My lord. - Sharif Ali.
40:20Lieutenant Lawrence, you have met Sharif Ali, I think.
40:25Yes, my lord.
40:29And now, Selim, "The Brightness."
40:32"By the noonday brightness...
40:34...and by the night when it darkeneth...
40:37...thy Lord hath not forsaken thee...
40:40...neither hath He been displeased.
40:42And surely the future shall be better for thee than the past."
40:47"And in the end shall your Lord be bounteous to thee...
40:50...and thou be satisfied."
40:55So?
40:58Yes, colonel.
41:00- I want a decision, sir. - You want me to fall back on Yenbo.
41:04Well, you're not doing much good here, sir.
41:06I'm sorry to rub it in, sir, but we can't supply you here.
41:11You could supply us through Aqaba!
41:13Aqaba!
41:15If you can get a hold of Aqaba, we can supply you.
41:18- But you can't! - You could.
41:21You mean, the navy?
41:24The Turks have 12-inch guns at Aqaba, sir.
41:28Can you imagine what that means?
41:30Yes, I can imagine.
41:32Put that out of your mind, sir. The navy's got other things to do.
41:36Oh, yes. Protecting the Suez Canal.
41:40The one essential sector of this front is and must be the canal.
41:44You can see that, sir, surely.
41:46I see that the canal is an essential British interest.
41:49It is of little consequence to us.
41:51I must ask you not to speak like that.
41:54British and Arab interests are one and the same.
41:58Possibly.
42:01Upon my word, sir, you're ungrateful.
42:04Fall back on Yenbo and we will give you equipment.
42:06Give you arms, advice, training, everything.
42:09- Guns? - A modern rifle for every man.
42:12No. Guns. Artillery.
42:15Guns like the Turkish guns at Medina.
42:19Yes, give us guns and keep the training.
42:22Your men need training far more than guns, sir.
42:26English will teach Bedu to fight?
42:28We will teach them, Sharif Ali, to fight a modern mechanised army.
42:33Yes, lieutenant? What do you think about Yenbo?
42:41I think it is far from Damascus.
42:45We'll have you in Damascus, sir. Never fear.
42:48Have you been in Damascus, Mr. Lawrence?
42:52Yes, my lord.
42:54It is beautiful, is it not?
42:56- Very. - That will do, Lawrence.
42:58Dreaming won't get you to Damascus, but discipline will.
43:02Look, Great Britain is a small country, much smaller than yours.
43:08Small population compared with some.
43:10It's small, but it's great. And why?
43:14- Because it has guns. - Because it has discipline.
43:17Because it has a navy, because of this...
43:19...the English go where they please...
43:21...and strike where they please. This makes them great.
43:24- Right. - Mr. Lawrence, that will do!
43:26Lawrence is not your military adviser.
43:29But I would like to hear his opinion.
43:31Damn it! Who do you take your orders from?
43:34From Lord Faisal, in Faisal's tent.
43:37Old fool! Why turn from him to him? They are master and man.
43:44My lord, I think...
43:48I think your book is right.
43:51The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.
43:56On this ocean, the Bedu go where they please...
43:58...and strike where they please.
44:00This is the way the Bedu has always fought.
44:02You're famed through the world for fighting this way.
44:05And this is the way you should fight now.
44:08I don't know.
44:09I'm sorry, sir, but you're wrong.
44:12Fall back on Yenbo, the Arab Rising becomes one unit in the British army.
44:17- What is this to you? - You're a traitor.
44:19No, colonel.
44:22He is a young man, and young men are passionate.
44:25They must say their say.
44:29But wiser people must decide. I know you are right.
44:34Very well. When shall we move? The sooner the better.
44:37You'll lose another 50 men tonight.
44:42You tread heavily...
44:45...but you speak the truth.
44:49I will give you my answer tomorrow. And now...
44:53...it is late.
45:11Colonel Brighton means to put my men...
45:13...under European officers, does he not?
45:16In effect, my lord, yes.
45:19And I must do it...
45:21...because the Turks have European guns.
45:25But I fear to do it...
45:29...upon my soul I do.
45:33The English have a great hunger for desolate places.
45:37I fear they hunger for Arabia.
45:41Then you must deny it to them.
45:43You are an Englishman. Are you not loyal to England?
45:47To England and to other things.
45:50To England and Arabia both?
45:53And is that possible?
46:02I think you are another of these desert-loving English.
46:06Doughty, Stanhope...
46:09...Gordon of Khartoum.
46:11No Arab loves the desert.
46:14We love water and green trees. There is nothing in the desert.
46:20And no man needs nothing.
46:26Or is it that you think we are something you can play with...
46:29...because we are a little people, a silly people...
46:33...greedy, barbarous and cruel?
46:38Or do you know, lieutenant, in the Arab city of Cordoba...
46:41...were two miles of lighting in the streets...
46:44...when London was a village.
46:46Yes, you were great.
46:49Nine centuries ago.
46:51Time to be great again, my lord.
46:54Which is why my father made this war upon the Turks.
46:57My father, Mr. Lawrence, not the English.
47:02But my father is old...
47:06...and I...
47:09...I long for the vanished gardens of Cordoba.
47:15However, before the gardens must come the fighting.
47:19To be great again, it seems that we need the English...
47:23...or...
47:24Or?
47:26What no man can provide, Mr. Lawrence.
47:30We need a miracle.
50:38Aqaba.
50:45From the land.
50:47You are mad.
50:49To come to Aqaba by land we should have to cross the Nefud Desert.
50:54That's right.
50:56The Nefud cannot be crossed.
50:58I'll cross it if you will.
51:00You? It takes more than a compass, Englishman.
51:04The Nefud is the worst place God created.
51:07I can't answer for the place. Only for myself.
51:12Fifty men?
51:14Fifty? Against Aqaba?
51:16If 50 men came out of the Nefud...
51:19...they would be 50 men other men might join.
51:23The Howeitat are there, I hear.
51:26The Howeitat are brigands. They'll sell themselves to anyone.
51:29- Good fighters, though. - Good...
51:32Yes. There are guns at Aqaba.
51:36They face the sea, Sharif Ali, and cannot be turned around.
51:40From the landward side, there are no guns at Aqaba.
51:44With good reason. It cannot be approached from the landward side.
51:49Certainly the Turks don't dream of it.
51:55Aqaba's over there.
52:00It's only a matter of going.
52:03You are mad.
52:13And where are you going, lieutenant?
52:17With 50 of my men.
52:20To work your miracle.
52:22Blasphemy is a bad beginning for such a journey.
52:27- Who told you? - Ali did.
52:30Why not you?
52:33You are falling back from Yenbo, sir?
52:36Yes, I must.
52:39But I will spare these to you.
52:44Did Ali break confidence to tell me?
52:47Sharif Ali owes you his allegiance, my lord.
52:52Yet you did not tell Colonel Brighton.
52:55No.
53:08Since you do know...
53:10...we can claim to arrive in the name of Faisal of Mecca.
53:14Yes, Lieutenant Lawrence, you may claim it.
53:19But in whose name do you ride?
55:50Sharif, I caught them. They have tracked us.
55:53They were here. I caught them.
55:56Why are you here? Boy!
55:59To serve Lord Lawrence, Sharif.
56:01This is true, Lawrence. They do wish it.
56:04You have been tracking us.
56:06- You were told to stay. - No, Sharif.
56:09Our camel strayed. We followed her.
56:11She led us here to be Lord Lawrence's servants.
56:14- It is the will of Allah. - Blasphemy.
56:17Don't do that.
56:19No, Lawrence, these are not servants. These are outcasts, parent-less.
56:24Be warned. They are not suitable.
56:27They sound very suitable. You can ride with the baggage.
56:32These are not servants. These are worshippers.
56:40One shilling, every week?
56:43That is fair.
56:45- Each? - No.
56:47- That is too much. - All right.
56:57They will be lucky for you. Allah favours the compassionate.
57:15There is the railway.
57:18And that is the desert.
57:22From here until the other side, no water but what we carry.
57:26For the camels, no water at all.
57:30If the camels die...
57:33...we die.
57:36And in 20 days they will start to die.
57:44There's no time to waste, then, is there?
1:00:19I was thinking.
1:00:21You were drifting.
1:00:25Yes. It will not happen again.
1:00:29Be warned, you were drifting.
1:00:33It will not happen again.
1:01:37That water is wasted.
1:01:45From now on, we must travel by night...
1:01:47...and rest while it is too hot to travel.
1:01:51A few hours each day.
1:01:55Why don't we start now?
1:01:57No. We will rest now.
1:02:01Three hours.
1:02:03Fine.
1:02:05I'll wake you.
1:04:25Do we rest here?
1:04:27There is no rest now short of water.
1:04:30The other side of that.
1:04:33And how much of that is there?
1:04:36I'm not sure.
1:04:38But however much, it must be crossed before tomorrow's sun gets up.
1:04:44This is the sun's anvil.
1:06:19Have we done it?
1:06:20No, but we're off the anvil.
1:06:24Thank God for that anyway.
1:06:26Yes, thank him.
1:06:28Lawrence, I do not think you know how you have tempted him.
1:06:32I know.
1:06:37We've done it.
1:06:38God willing.
1:06:42When do we reach the wells?
1:06:44God willing, midday.
1:06:48- Then we've done it. - Thank him, Lawrence. Thank him.
1:06:55Gasim's.
1:07:01What's happened to him?
1:07:03God knows.
1:07:06Why don't you stop?
1:07:09For what? He will be dead by midday.
1:07:18We must go back.
1:07:20What for, to die with Gasim?
1:07:24In one hour comes the sun.
1:07:27In God's name, understand! We cannot go back!
1:07:32I can.
1:07:35Take the boys.
1:07:42If you go back, you kill yourself, is all.
1:07:45Gasim you have killed already.
1:07:48Get out of my way.
1:07:49Gasim's time is come, Lawrence. It is written.
1:07:53Nothing is written!
1:07:58Go back, then!
1:08:00What did you bring us here for with your blasphemous conceit?
1:08:04English blasphemer!
1:08:07Aqaba?
1:08:09Was it Aqaba?
1:08:12You will not be at Aqaba, English!
1:08:16Go back, blasphemer...
1:08:19...but you will not be at Aqaba.
1:08:21I shall be at Aqaba.
1:08:23That is written.
1:08:26In here.
1:08:37English!
1:15:13Lawrence! Daud!
1:17:25Nothing is written.
1:17:59Al Lawrence.
1:18:05Farraj.
1:18:08Wash.
1:18:46Al Lawrence.
1:18:48Truly, for some men nothing is written unless they write it.
1:18:58Not Al Lawrence. Just Lawrence.
1:19:01- Al Lawrence is better. - True.
1:19:06Your father too, just Mr. Lawrence?
1:19:14My father is Sir Thomas Chapman.
1:19:17- Is that a lord? - A kind of lord.
1:19:21Then when he dies, you too will be a lord.
1:19:24No.
1:19:27You have an elder brother.
1:19:29No.
1:19:30But then, I do not understand this. Your father's name is Chapman.
1:19:37He didn't marry my mother.
1:19:40I see.
1:19:43I'm sorry.
1:19:46It seems to me that you are free to choose your own name, then.
1:19:52Yes, I suppose I am.
1:19:56Al Lawrence is best.
1:20:01All right, I'll settle for Al Lawrence.
1:20:35They are the robes of a Sharif of the Beni Wejh.
1:20:50Very fine.
1:20:54- Great honour. - The honour is to us. Salaam, Sharif.
1:20:59- Is it permitted? - Surely.
1:21:06He for whom nothing is written may write himself a clan.
1:21:19They are good for riding. Try.
1:23:15What are you doing, Englishman?
1:23:18As you see.
1:23:20Are you alone?
1:23:22Almost.
1:23:32Are you with those dogs drinking at my well?
1:23:35Yours?
1:23:40I am Auda Abu Tayi.
1:23:43I've heard of another man of that name.
1:23:47Other? What other?
1:23:49The Auda I'd heard of wouldn't need to summon help to look after his wells.
1:23:57He must be a great hero.
1:23:59He is.
1:24:01He wouldn't refuse water to men coming out of Nefud Desert.
1:24:05Now, would he not?
1:24:10No, that must be some other man.
1:24:15Here is my help.
1:24:42Son, what fashion is this?
1:24:46- Harith, Father. - What manner of Harith?
1:24:51A Beni Wejh Sharif.
1:24:53And is he Harith?
1:24:55No, Father, English.
1:25:00Son...
1:25:02...they are stealing our water.
1:25:05Tell them we are coming.
1:25:08Tell them.
1:26:19- Empty that! - Do not!
1:26:23It is Auda of the Howeitat who speaks.
1:26:26It is Ali of the Harith who answers.
1:26:44Harith.
1:26:46Ali.
1:26:48Does your father still steal?
1:26:53No.
1:26:55Does Auda take me for one of his own bastards?
1:27:00No. There is no resemblance.
1:27:04Alas, you resemble your father.
1:27:06- Auda flatters me. - You are easily flattered.
1:27:10I knew your father well.
1:27:13Did you know your own?
1:27:18We are 50, you are two. How if we shot you down?
1:27:23Why, then you have a blood feud with the Howeitat.
1:27:28- Do you desire it? - Not the generals in Cairo...
1:27:31...nor the sultan himself desire that.
1:27:37Call off your men.
1:27:44This honours the unworthy.
1:27:47I've only just begun to teach him.
1:27:49And what are you teaching him today? Howeitat hospitality?
1:27:54Be not clever with me, English.
1:27:58- Who is he? - A friend of Prince Faisal's.
1:28:10- So you desire my hospitality? - Yes.
1:28:14Is he your tongue?
1:28:16We do desire it.
1:28:21Then it is given, if you will take it.
1:28:26I'm at my summer camp, a poor place.
1:28:28Well, to me it seems a poor place. Some men find it marvellous.
1:28:33Tomorrow, maybe I will allow the Turks to buy you, friends of Faisal.
1:28:39But...
1:28:41...dine with me.
1:28:43Dine with Auda, English.
1:28:46Dine with the Howeitat, Harith.
1:28:49It is my pleasure that you dine with me in Wadi Rumm!
1:31:33This thing you work against Aqaba...
1:31:37...what profit do you hope from it?
1:31:40We work it for Faisal of Mecca.
1:31:43The Harith do not work for profit.
1:31:46Well, if it is in a man to be a servant, Sharif Ali...
1:31:50...he could find worse masters than Faisal.
1:31:53But I... I cannot serve.
1:31:57You permit the Turks to stay in Aqaba.
1:32:00Yes, it is my pleasure.
1:32:07We do not work this thing for Faisal.
1:32:11No?
1:32:13- For the English, then? - For the Arabs.
1:32:17The Arabs?
1:32:19The Howeitat, Ageyil, Ruala, Beni Sahkr, these I know.
1:32:23I have even heard of the Harith.
1:32:26But the Arabs?
1:32:28What tribe is that?
1:32:32They're a tribe of slaves. They serve the Turks.
1:32:36Well, they are nothing to me.
1:32:38My tribe is the Howeitat.
1:32:40Who work only for profit.
1:32:43Who work at Auda's pleasure.
1:32:45And Auda's pleasure is to serve the Turks.
1:32:48Serve?
1:32:49I serve?
1:32:51It is the servant who takes money.
1:32:59I am Auda Abu Tayi.
1:33:01- Does Auda serve? - No!
1:33:03- Does Auda Abu Tayi serve? - No!
1:33:10I carry 23 great wounds, all got in battle.
1:33:1575 men have I killed with my own hands, in battle.
1:33:19I scatter, I burn my enemies tents. I take away their flocks and herds.
1:33:23The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor!
1:33:27Because I am a river to my people.
1:33:40Is that service?
1:33:42No.
1:33:50And yet now it seems Auda has grown old.
1:33:54And lost his taste for fighting.
1:33:57It is well you say it in my tent, thou old tulip.
1:34:01Yet this is a tulip that the Turks could not buy.
1:34:05Why should they wish to?
1:34:09Now...
1:34:11I will tell you what they pay me, and you will tell me if this is...
1:34:15...a servant's wages.
1:34:17They pay me, month by month...
1:34:22...100 golden guineas.
1:34:27150, Auda.
1:34:30- Who told you that? - I have long ears.
1:34:33And a long tongue between them.
1:34:36100, 150, what matters? It's a trifle.
1:34:40A trifle which they take from a great box they have.
1:34:44In Aqaba.
1:34:47- In Aqaba? - Where else?
1:34:50You trouble me like women.
1:34:54Friends, we've been foolish. Auda will not come to Aqaba.
1:34:58- For money? - No.
1:34:59- For Faisal? - No!
1:35:00Nor to drive away the Turks.
1:35:04He will come...
1:35:07...because it is his pleasure.
1:35:11Thy mother mated with a scorpion.
1:35:16Make God your agent!
1:35:21Aqaba!
1:35:41God be with you.
1:39:02Yes.
1:39:03Aqaba.
1:39:06Tomorrow we will go and get it.
1:39:10- Do you think we shall? - Yes.
1:39:13If you are right about the guns.
1:39:44He killed. He dies.
1:39:47This is the end of Aqaba.
1:39:52One of our men murdered Auda's man.
1:39:54Why?
1:39:55Theft? Blood feud? It makes no matter why.
1:39:59Ali!
1:40:00It is an ancient wound.
1:40:03I didn't come here to watch a tribal bloodbath.
1:40:10It is the law, Lawrence.
1:40:12The law says the man must die.
1:40:16If he dies, will that content the Howeitat?
1:40:20Yes.
1:40:24Sharif Ali!
1:40:26If none of Lord Auda's men harms any of yours...
1:40:30- ...will that content the Harith? - Yes.
1:40:39Then I will execute the law.
1:40:43I have no tribe.
1:40:46And no one is offended.
1:41:01Gasim.
1:41:06Did you do it?
1:41:35Well, Lawrence...
1:41:44What ails the Englishman?
1:41:45That that he killed was the man he brought out of the Nefud.
1:41:49It was written, then.
1:41:52Better to have left him.
1:41:58It was execution, Lawrence. No shame in that.
1:42:01Besides, it was necessary.
1:42:05You gave life and you took it.
1:42:07The writing is still yours.
1:42:46Auda Abu Tayi!
1:46:04The miracle is accomplished.
1:46:08Garlands for the conqueror.
1:46:30Tribute for the prince. Flowers for the man.
1:46:34I'm none of those things, Ali.
1:46:36- What, then? - Don't know.
1:46:40Thanks.
1:46:43My God, I love this country.
1:46:47What!
1:46:49No gold in Aqaba!
1:46:52Auda, I found it!
1:47:03That's a pity.
1:47:09Ali, get a message down the coast to Yenbo.
1:47:11Tell Faisal to find boats, any boats...
1:47:14...and bring the Arab army here to Aqaba, quickly.
1:47:17And you?
1:47:19I'm going to tell the generals...
1:47:22...in Cairo.
1:47:24Yes, cross Sinai.
1:47:27Come on!
1:47:28Sinai?
1:47:30Yes.
1:47:32- With these? - They'll be all right with me.
1:47:41Look, Ali. If any of your Bedouin arrived in Cairo and said:
1:47:45"We've taken Aqaba," the generals would laugh.
1:47:49I see.
1:47:51In Cairo you will put off these funny clothes.
1:47:54You'll wear trousers and tell stories of our quaintness and barbarity...
1:47:59...and then they will believe you.
1:48:02You're an ignorant man.
1:48:24Paper.
1:48:26Paper!
1:48:31There is no gold in Aqaba.
1:48:35No gold.
1:48:38No great box!
1:48:44Did Auda come to Aqaba for gold?
1:48:47For my pleasure, as you said.
1:48:51But gold is honourable...
1:48:54...and Lawrence promised gold.
1:48:58Lawrence lied.
1:49:01See, Auda.
1:49:05"The Crown of England...
1:49:08...promises to pay...
1:49:12...5000 golden guineas...
1:49:17...to Auda Abu Tayi."
1:49:23Signed in His Majesty's absence...
1:49:27...by...
1:49:30...me.
1:49:33In 10 days...
1:49:35...I'll be back with the gold.
1:49:39With gold, with guns, with everything.
1:49:44Ten days.
1:49:47You'll cross Sinai?
1:49:49Why not?
1:49:51Moses did.
1:49:56And you will take the children?
1:49:59Moses did.
1:50:01Moses was a prophet...
1:50:03...and beloved of God.
1:50:11He said there was gold here. He lied.
1:50:16He is not perfect.
1:50:29Lord, can we not rest?
1:50:32I told you, no rest till they know that I have Aqaba.
1:50:37Have you two slept in beds?
1:50:39Farraj?
1:50:41Daud?
1:50:44With sheets?
1:50:47Tomorrow the finest sheets in the finest room and hotel in Cairo.
1:50:51I promise.
1:50:52Then it shall be so, lord.
1:51:16Look!
1:51:25Pillar of fire.
1:51:29No, lord. Dust.
1:52:21My compass.
1:52:24No matter.
1:52:26If we ride west, we must strike the canal.
1:52:31Due west.
1:52:53Come on!
1:53:28Lawrence!
1:53:43Farraj!
1:53:55Farraj, don't! Don't!
1:53:59Don't!
1:55:36Why do you walk?
1:55:39But why, lord?
1:55:54There is room for both. It serves no purpose.
1:56:23Lawrence, look!
1:57:35It's all right, Farraj.
1:57:37It's all right.
1:58:51Who are you?
1:59:33- Daud! - We're here, sir.
1:59:53You taking him in there?
1:59:56Yes.
2:00:18Here!
2:00:21Here. You!
2:00:25And where the hell do you think you're going to, Mustapha?
2:00:30We are thirsty.
2:00:33- Mr. Lawrence, is it? - Yes.
2:00:36- Are you going to the officers' bar? - Yes.
2:00:40You can't take him in there, sir.
2:00:46What do you think you look like?
2:01:07No, no. You must go.
2:01:09No, no. Go, effendi, go!
2:01:13Get out! You must get out! Get out!
2:01:17We want two large glasses of lemonade.
2:01:21- This is a bar for British officers. - We are not particular.
2:01:31- Are you off your head? - No. Oddly enough I'm not.
2:01:35- Just clear out of here, will you? - Get that boy out of here.
2:01:39Corporal, we'll have this one out anyway.
2:01:42- Get that wog out of here. - Clear off.
2:01:47What's going on?
2:01:51- It's Lawrence, sir. - Lemonade with ice.
2:01:57Explain yourself.
2:01:59We've taken Aqaba.
2:02:01- Taken Aqaba? Who has? - We have.
2:02:04Our side in this war has. The wogs have.
2:02:09We have.
2:02:13He likes your lemonade.
2:02:15You mean the Turks have gone?
2:02:17No, they're still there but they've no boots.
2:02:20Prisoners, sir. We took them prisoners. The entire garrison.
2:02:25That's not true. We killed some.
2:02:28Too many, really. I'll manage it better next time.
2:02:33There's been a lot of killing one way or another.
2:02:38Cross my heart and hope to die, it's all perfectly true.
2:02:42- It isn't possible. - Yes, it is.
2:02:45I did it.
2:02:52You'd better talk to Allenby.
2:02:54- General Allenby? - He's in command. Murray's gone.
2:02:57That's a step in the right direction.
2:03:00First I want a room. With a bed, with sheets.
2:03:03- Yes, of course. - It's for him.
2:03:07Right. You want a bed yourself, don't you?
2:03:10See Allenby first, though.
2:03:13Will he see me?
2:03:15I think so.
2:03:18Do that, then.
2:03:24- I'd better shave. - Yes, you had.
2:03:27You'd better get into some trousers too.
2:03:41"Undisciplined.
2:03:44Unpunctual.
2:03:48Untidy.
2:03:51Several languages.
2:03:55Knowledge of music...
2:03:58...literature.
2:04:00Knowledge of...
2:04:04Knowledge of..."
2:04:09You're an interesting man, there's no doubt about it.
2:04:12- Who told you to take Aqaba? - Nobody.
2:04:16- Sir. - Sir.
2:04:19Then why did you?
2:04:20- Aqaba's important. - Why is it important?
2:04:23- It's the Turkish route to the canal. - Not anymore.
2:04:26- They're coming through Beersheba. - I know, but we've gone to Gaza.
2:04:30- So? - So that left Aqaba behind your right.
2:04:35True.
2:04:37And it will be further behind your right when you go for Jerusalem.
2:04:42Am I going for Jerusalem?
2:04:45Yes.
2:04:48Very well.
2:04:50Aqaba behind my right.
2:04:52It threatened El' Arîsh and Gaza.
2:04:57Anything else?
2:04:58Yes.
2:05:00Aqaba's linked with Medina.
2:05:03Do you think we should shift them out of Medina now?
2:05:06No. I think you should leave them there.
2:05:10You acted without orders, you know.
2:05:13Shouldn't officers use their initiative at all times?
2:05:17Not really. It's awfully dangerous.
2:05:20Yes, I know.
2:05:22Already?
2:05:24Yes.
2:05:27I'm promoting you major.
2:05:31I don't think that's a very good idea.
2:05:33I didn't ask you. I want you to go back...
2:05:36...and carry on the good work.
2:05:41No. Thank you, sir.
2:05:44- Why not? - Well, I, it's...
2:05:48Let me see now...
2:05:51I killed two people. I mean, two Arabs.
2:05:55One was a boy.
2:05:57That was...
2:06:01...yesterday.
2:06:03I led him into a quicksand.
2:06:05The other was a man.
2:06:07That was...
2:06:09...before Aqaba, anyway.
2:06:12I had to execute him with my pistol.
2:06:15There was something about it I didn't like.
2:06:19- Well, naturally. - No. Something else.
2:06:24That's all right. Let it be a warning.
2:06:27No. Something else.
2:06:30What, then?
2:06:33I enjoyed it.
2:06:43Rubbish. Rubbish and nerves. You're tired.
2:06:48What do you mean coming dressed like that? Amateur theatricals?
2:06:52Yes. Entirely.
2:06:54Let me see that hat thing or whatever it is.
2:06:57Fascinating gear they wear.
2:07:00How would I look in this, Harry?
2:07:02- Damn ridiculous, sir. - Here, you keep it.
2:07:06What I'm trying to say is I don't think I'm fit for it.
2:07:11Really? What do you think, Dryden?
2:07:15Before he did it, sir, I'd have said it couldn't be done.
2:07:20- Brighton? - I know what he thinks.
2:07:24I think you should recommend a decoration, sir.
2:07:27I don't think it matters what his motives were.
2:07:30It was a brilliant bit of soldiering.
2:07:35- Mr. Perkins! - Sir!
2:07:37Let's have a drink, gentlemen.
2:07:44- You've heard about this, Mr. Perkins? - Yes, sir.
2:07:48- What do you think about it? - Bloody marvellous, sir. Well done.
2:07:52- Thank you, Mr. Perkins. - Sir!
2:08:01Come on, then.
2:08:06You're a clever man, sir.
2:08:08No, but I know a good thing when I see one.
2:08:12That's fair, surely?
2:08:35If I need a breakthrough to Jerusalem, I must concentrate, not dissipate.
2:08:41- Bravo. - You know better?
2:09:02I fight like Clausewitz, then you fight like Saxe.
2:09:06We should do very well indeed, shouldn't we?
2:09:44Easy, gentlemen, please.
2:09:48- Give us something to drink. - Of course, sir.
2:09:51I'm here at the invitation of Major Lawrence.
2:09:55Tracy.
2:09:58Shall we go outside?
2:10:11So you hold bound the Turkish desert army?
2:10:15Yes.
2:10:16With 1 000 Arabs?
2:10:191 000 Arabs means 1 000 knives.
2:10:23Delivered anywhere, day or night.
2:10:25It means 1 000 camels.
2:10:27That means 1 000 packs of high explosives and 1 000 crack rifles.
2:10:32We can cross Arabia while Johnny Turk is still turning round.
2:10:36I'll smash his railways.
2:10:39While he mends, I'll smash them somewhere else.
2:10:41In 13 weeks I can have Arabia in chaos.
2:10:44You are going back, then?
2:10:50Yes.
2:10:51Of course I'm going back.
2:10:58Well, if we can see it, so can the Turk.
2:11:01If he finds he's using four divisions to fend off a handful of bandits...
2:11:05...he'll withdraw.
2:11:06He daren't withdraw. Arabia's part of his empire.
2:11:10If he gets out now, he'll never get back again.
2:11:12- I wonder who will. - No one will.
2:11:15Arabia's for the Arabs now.
2:11:24That's what I've told them anyway.
2:11:26That's what they think.
2:11:29- That's why they're fighting. - Oh, surely.
2:11:35They've only one suspicion.
2:11:38That we'll let them drive the Turks out and then move in ourselves.
2:11:42I've told them that that's false, that we have no ambitions in Arabia.
2:11:47Have we?
2:11:49I'm not a politician, thank God.
2:11:51Have we any ambition in Arabia, Dryden?
2:11:55Difficult question, sir.
2:11:59I want to know, sir, if I can tell them in your name...
2:12:03...that we've no ambitions in Arabia.
2:12:08Certainly.
2:12:272000 small arms, not enough. I need five.
2:12:30Right.
2:12:32Money. It'll have to be sovereigns. They don't like paper.
2:12:36- Instructors for the Lewis guns. - Right.
2:12:40More money.
2:12:42- How much more? - 25,000 now. A lot more later.
2:12:45- Dryden? - It can be done, sir.
2:12:48A couple of armoured cars.
2:12:51Right.
2:12:53Field artillery.
2:12:57Right.
2:13:01I'll give you every blessed thing I can...
2:13:04...because I know you'll use it. Congratulations.
2:13:07Thank you for your hospitality, gentlemen.
2:13:45Congratulations!
2:13:57Are you really going to give them artillery, sir?
2:14:01I was wondering that, sir.
2:14:03Might be difficult to get it back.
2:14:05Give them artillery and you've made them independent.
2:14:09Then I can't give it to them, can I?
2:14:11- For you to say. - No, it's not.
2:14:13I've got orders to obey, thank God.
2:14:16Not like that poor devil.
2:14:19He's riding the whirlwind.
2:14:21Let's hope we're not.
2:19:47Excuse me, friend. Who do these bags belong to?
2:19:50To Prince Faisal.
2:19:52- You're not Prince Faisal? - No.
2:19:55You know him though?
2:19:56He is my master. I am his servant.
2:20:03Can you read?
2:20:13Chicago Courier is my paper, but my work is syndicated in America.
2:20:18I understood so from your letter, Mr. Bentley.
2:20:36Now...
2:20:38- Where can I find Major Lawrence? - Is that what you have come for?
2:20:42Not altogether, sir, no.
2:20:44Well, Mr. Bentley, you will find Major Lawrence with my army.
2:20:49That's what I meant, sir. Where can I find your army?
2:20:52I don't know.
2:20:54- Last week they were near El Ghira. - Ghira?
2:20:57Yes, I fear you have a long journey. Can you ride a camel?
2:21:02- I've never tried. - Take a mule.
2:21:05Avoid Mellaha, the Turks are there.
2:21:08In Mellaha now? They move fast.
2:21:10They do.
2:21:12But not so fast as we do, you will find.
2:21:15Myself...
2:21:18...I am going to Cairo.
2:21:20- As you know. - Yes.
2:21:22There's work for me there of a different kind.
2:21:25Yes.
2:21:30I understand you've been given no artillery.
2:21:33- That is so. - You're handicapped?
2:21:35It restricts us to small things.
2:21:38It's intended to.
2:21:42Do you know General Allenby?
2:21:44Watch out for Allenby. He's a slim customer.
2:21:48- Excuse me? - A clever man.
2:21:51Slim customer. It's very good.
2:21:54I'll certainly watch out for him. You're being very sympathetic.
2:21:59Your Highness, we Americans were once a colonial people.
2:22:03We naturally feel sympathetic to any people...
2:22:05...who struggle for their freedom.
2:22:08Very gratifying.
2:22:13Also, my interests are the same as yours. You want your story told.
2:22:17I badly want a story to tell.
2:22:20Ah, now you are talking turkey, are you not?
2:22:24I will give you a guide and a letter.
2:22:27And before I leave here...
2:22:29...which must be presently...
2:22:32...I will have some facts and figures put on paper for you.
2:22:37You know that we are destroying the Turkish railways.
2:22:41I do, sir.
2:22:42Major Lawrence is in charge of all this, is he?
2:22:45My army is made up of tribes.
2:22:48The tribes are led by the tribal leaders.
2:22:51Your people do think very highly of Major Lawrence?
2:22:55Oh, yes. And the rightly.
2:22:58In this country, Mr. Bentley...
2:23:02...the man who gives victory in battle is prized...
2:23:06...beyond every other man.
2:23:09One figure I can give you from my head...
2:23:13...because it never leaves my head.
2:23:17Since starting this campaign four months ago, we have lost...
2:23:22...37 wounded...
2:23:27...156 dead.
2:23:32You remark the disproportion between our dead and wounded.
2:23:37Yeah.
2:23:38Four times as many.
2:23:40That's because those too wounded to bring away, we ourselves kill.
2:23:45We leave no wounded for the Turks.
2:23:48- You mean...? - We leave no wounded for the Turks.
2:23:52In their eyes, we are not soldiers but rebels.
2:23:56Rebels, wounded or whole, are not protected by the Geneva Code...
2:24:00...and are treated harshly.
2:24:03How harshly?
2:24:04More harshly than I hope you can imagine.
2:24:08I see.
2:24:09Our own prisoners are taken care of until the British...
2:24:13...can relieve us of them, according to the Code.
2:24:17- I should like you to notice that. - Yes, sir.
2:24:22Is that the influence of Major Lawrence?
2:24:25Why should you suppose?
2:24:27It's just that I heard in Cairo that...
2:24:29...Major Lawrence has a horror of bloodshed.
2:24:32That is exactly so.
2:24:34With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion.
2:24:38With me, it is merely good manners.
2:24:41You may judge which motive is the more reliable.
2:24:45- And now, perhaps... - Oh, sure, sure.
2:24:53Thank you, sir.
2:24:55Can you manage the letter...?
2:24:57I'll do everything I have said...
2:25:00...if you will tell me truly the nature of your interest...
2:25:04...in my people and Major Lawrence.
2:25:08It's very simple, sir. I'm looking for a hero.
2:25:11Indeed. You do not seem a romantic man.
2:25:14Oh, no.
2:25:15But influential men back home believe it's time for America...
2:25:19...to lend her weight to the struggle against Germany.
2:25:22And Turkey.
2:25:25I've been sent to find material to show our people that this war is...
2:25:30- Enjoyable? - Hardly that, sir.
2:25:32But to show it in its more adventurous aspects.
2:25:35You look for a figure who will draw your country towards war.
2:25:41All right. Yes.
2:25:43Lawrence is your man.
2:26:25Stop!
2:26:45Stop it!
2:26:57Come on, men!
2:28:08Lawrence!
2:28:30Good God! God!
2:29:18Jiminy! Never seen a man killed with a sword before.
2:29:23Why don't you take a picture?
2:29:26Wish I had.
2:29:31How is it with thee, Lawrence?
2:29:36Am I in this?
2:29:38Did you take his picture?
2:29:40Yeah.
2:29:45You are using up your nine lives very quickly.
2:29:52Charming company you keep.
2:29:54Auda?
2:29:56He's a bit old-fashioned. He thinks these things will steal his virtue.
2:30:02He thinks you're a kind of thief.
2:30:04It's all right to take your picture?
2:30:07- All right. - Okay.
2:30:09Just walk.
2:31:10Major Lawrence!
2:31:13Yes, sir, that's my baby.
2:31:24This looting has got to stop!
2:31:27It is customary.
2:31:28It's theft. And theft makes thieves.
2:31:32I would not say that to Auda.
2:31:35- It is their payment, colonel. - Payment.
2:31:38Truly. Are not British soldiers paid?
2:31:41- They don't go home when being paid. - They are not free to.
2:31:50Well, there's another lot you've seen the last of.
2:31:54They'll come back.
2:31:56He says they'll come back. Will they?
2:32:00Not this year, Lawrence.
2:32:02Look, Lawrence, how many men do you think you'll have left? 200?
2:32:07- Less. - Well, then?
2:32:10I said, they'll come back.
2:32:13You badly hurt?
2:32:16Not hurt at all.
2:32:18Didn't you know? They can only kill me with a golden bullet.
2:32:38It is for children. I have set myself to learn again.
2:32:42- What are you learning from this? - Politics.
2:32:46You'll be a democracy in this country? You gonna have a parliament?
2:32:52I will tell you that when I have a country.
2:32:56Did I answer well?
2:32:58You answered without saying anything. That's politics.
2:33:03You learn quickly.
2:33:06I have a good teacher.
2:33:11Yeah.
2:33:20- How's your hurt? - Fine.
2:33:22Before I return to the fleshpots, which I shall be very glad to do...
2:33:27...may I put two questions to you, straight?
2:33:31I'd be interested to hear you put a question straight.
2:33:34One.
2:33:36What, in your opinion, do these people hope to gain from this war?
2:33:40They hope to gain their freedom.
2:33:44Freedom.
2:33:46"They hope to gain their freedom."
2:33:49- There's one born every minute. - They're going to get it.
2:33:54I'm going to give it to them.
2:33:58- The second question? - Well, I was going to ask...
2:34:04...what is it that attracts you personally to the desert?
2:34:10It's clean.
2:34:15Well, now...
2:34:17...that's a very illuminating answer.
2:34:20May I...
2:34:22...take one farewell picture?
2:34:25I gave Math Budad two lamps for it.
2:34:29One clock for two lamps.
2:34:32A fair bargain.
2:34:33Fair? I robbed him.
2:34:48Trash.
2:34:50I must find something honourable.
2:34:53Honourable?
2:34:55The year is running out, Brighton.
2:35:03I must find something honourable.
2:37:38Now you may blow up my train.
2:37:40And what will you do now?
2:37:42Now I go home. They will carry my toys.
2:37:47They will carry my toys too, see?
2:37:50Major Lawrence will campaign this winter.
2:37:53But you got what you wanted, so you're going home, is that it?
2:37:57Of course. When Lawrence has got what he wants, he will go home.
2:38:02When you've got what you want, you will go home.
2:38:04No, I shan't, Auda.
2:38:07Then you are a fool.
2:38:09Maybe. But I am not a deserter.
2:38:13Give thanks to God, Brighton...
2:38:15...that when he made you a fool, he gave you a fool's face.
2:38:20You are an impudent rascal.
2:38:23I must go, Lawrence, before I soil myself with a fool's blood.
2:38:38Like talking to a brick wall.
2:38:49So what will you do now? What can you do?
2:38:52I'll go north.
2:38:55That's what Allenby wants.
2:38:57Allenby wanted the Arab army behind Deraa.
2:39:01Then that's where I'll take it.
2:39:05Tell Allenby to hurry up, or we'll be in Deraa before he's in Jerusalem.
2:39:10Won't we?
2:39:43Train, Farraj.
2:39:46Yeah, Lawrence.
2:40:16Hide yourself, my friend.
2:40:27Detonator.
2:40:42All right, fetch another.
2:40:44- Pardon, Lawrence. I put... - Plenty of time. Fetch another.
2:40:53Farraj?
2:41:05- What happened? - Detonator. A detonator!
2:41:22He cannot ride, Lawrence. Look.
2:41:34If they take him alive, you know what they'll do to him.
2:41:49Daud will be angry with you.
2:41:52Salute him for me.
2:42:14What will you do now?
2:42:17Go north.
2:42:19With twenty?
2:42:21What would you recommend me to do?
2:42:25What would you recommend?
2:42:32He hasn't 1/10 so many men, sir.
2:42:35He's lied, in fact.
2:42:38Yes and no. He doesn't claim to have done anything he hasn't done.
2:42:42Then there is an Arab north army.
2:42:46- No, sir, he has lied about that. - Any idea why?
2:42:51- It's his army, I suppose. - It's Prince Faisal's army.
2:42:57Do you think he's gone native, Harry?
2:43:00No.
2:43:03He would if he could, I think.
2:43:09- Not my line of country. - It doesn't matter. Just curious.
2:43:13What matters is I believed it.
2:43:15The Turks believe it.
2:43:17They are offering 20,000 pounds for him.
2:43:23Good heavens.
2:43:25- Shouldn't say he had long to live. - Whatever else, he's a brave man...
2:43:29Surely, surely. If he's still going north with 50 men, he doesn't lack guts.
2:43:34I wonder if they'd offer that much for me.
2:43:39What about next year? Will they still come back?
2:43:43I wouldn't be surprised.
2:43:45- They think he's a kind of prophet. - They do or he does?
2:44:05- Now may I speak? - Yes.
2:44:08One more failure and you will find yourself alone.
2:44:12- I do not include myself. - I do not include the others.
2:44:16So say they love you.
2:44:19The more reason to be thrifty with them.
2:44:21Give them something to do that can be done. But you, no.
2:44:25They must move mountains, walk on water.
2:44:27That's right. That's right.
2:44:31Who are you to know what can be done?
2:44:34If we'd done what you thought could be done, we'd be in Yenbo now.
2:44:38Whatever I ask them to do can be done. They know that if you don't.
2:44:45Do you think I'm just anybody?
2:44:48Do you?
2:44:53My friends, who will walk on water with me?
2:45:00- Who will come with me into Deraa? - Deraa is garrisoned.
2:45:04Will you take 20 against 2000?
2:45:07- I'll go by myself if I have to. - Why?
2:45:11Because I told the English generals...
2:45:13...the Arab revolt would be in Deraa when they'd be in Jerusalem.
2:45:17Or perhaps you are here...
2:45:19...for the English generals.
2:45:23Who says this?
2:45:25Rumour.
2:45:28That is not an argument.
2:45:31Oh, argument.
2:45:33This afternoon I will take the Arab revolt into Deraa...
2:45:37...while the Arabs argue.
2:45:41Can you pass for an Arab in an Arab town?
2:45:45Yes. If one of you would lend me some dirty clothes.
2:45:58It's madness.
2:46:02What are you looking for?
2:46:04Some way to announce myself.
2:46:07Be patient with him, God.
2:46:22- Do you not see how they look at you? - Peace, Ali, I am invisible.
2:46:27Halt!
2:46:28Walk on.
2:46:30- Halt! - Walk on.
2:46:33You and you.
2:48:16You.
2:48:34You have blue eyes.
2:48:37- I say you have blue eyes. - Yes, effendi.
2:48:41- Are you Circassian? - Yes, effendi.
2:48:45How old are you?
2:48:47Twenty-seven, effendi.
2:48:51I think.
2:48:53You look older. You have had a lot of experience.
2:48:58It's an interesting face.
2:49:05I am surrounded by cattle.
2:49:08He wouldn't know an interesting face from a sow's belly.
2:49:13I have been is Deraa now for three and a half years.
2:49:17If they posted me to the dark side of the moon, I could not be more...
2:49:22...isolated.
2:49:26You haven't the least idea what I'm talking about.
2:49:28No, effendi.
2:49:33Have you?
2:49:35No.
2:49:37That would be too...
2:49:39...lucky.
2:50:05Where did you get that?
2:50:09- It's old, effendi. - No, this is recent.
2:50:15- You are a deserter. - No, effendi.
2:50:18Yes, you are a deserter.
2:50:21But from which army?
2:50:26Not that it matters at all.
2:50:28A man cannot be always in uniform.
2:50:42Your skin is very fair.
2:51:03Beat him.
2:52:39To me!
2:54:43Sleep.
2:54:59Eat.
2:55:12You have a body, like other men.
2:55:23Good.
2:55:25Then sleep.
2:55:40Better?
2:55:42Much better. You were right.
2:55:45Rest, rest. Can you not learn?
2:55:48Oh, I've learned all right.
2:55:56I'm going, Ali.
2:55:59- Why? - Why?
2:56:02Heavens.
2:56:04Why?
2:56:06I've come to the end of myself, I suppose.
2:56:09And the end of the Arab revolt?
2:56:11I'm not the Arab revolt, Ali. I'm not even Arab.
2:56:14A man can be whatever he wants. You said.
2:56:18I'm sorry. I thought it was true.
2:56:21You proved it.
2:56:23Look, Ali. Look.
2:56:25That's me. What colour is it? That's me.
2:56:30And there's nothing I can do about it.
2:56:33A man can do whatever he wants. You said.
2:56:37He can...
2:56:39...but he can't want what he wants.
2:56:43This is the stuff that decides what he wants.
2:56:49You may as well know. I would've told them anything.
2:56:53I would've told them who I am. I would've told them where you were.
2:56:57- I tried to. - So would any man.
2:57:00Well, any man is what I am.
2:57:04And I'm going back to Allenby to ask him for a job...
2:57:09...that any man can do.
2:57:11Allenby's in Jerusalem.
2:57:13- I'll make easy stages. - You?
2:57:17Oh, yes. Easy stages.
2:57:23Look, Ali, I think I see a way of being just...
2:57:27...ordinarily...
2:57:30...happy.
2:57:35Can I take this?
2:57:37It is not clean.
2:57:39No, but it's warm.
2:57:43And these...
2:57:44...having led them here, have you no care for them?
2:57:50You lead them. They're yours. Trust your own people.
2:57:57And let me go back to mine.
2:58:28- I say, don't forget those form fives. - All right.
2:58:37Mind if I join you?
2:58:40Honoured, sir.
2:58:44- Good to be back. - We heard you were, sir.
2:58:48- What's doing out there? - Where?
2:58:51- Arabia? - Well, yes, sir.
2:58:53Nothing much. Wrong time of year. What's doing here?
2:58:57We're settling in. We built a squash court.
2:58:59Jolly good.
2:59:02Well, I have to go up there.
2:59:07It's borrowed. Someone pinched mine.
2:59:09Bloody wogs.
2:59:13Yes, probably.
2:59:15Jolly good about the squash court.
2:59:20Lays it on a bit thick, doesn't he?
2:59:36Morning.
2:59:37- Good morning, sir. - Good to be back.
2:59:40- I'll believe you, sir. - No, really it is.
2:59:46Hello.
2:59:48Morning. You're to go right in.
3:00:03Lawrence.
3:00:06Or is it Major Lawrence?
3:00:09Sir.
3:00:17Well, general, I will leave you.
3:00:19Major Lawrence doubtless has reports to make...
3:00:22...about my people and their weakness...
3:00:26...and the need to keep them in the British interest.
3:00:33And the French interest too. We must not forget the French.
3:00:37I told you, sir, no such treaty exists.
3:00:39Yes, general, you have lied most bravely, but not convincingly.
3:00:44I know this treaty does exist.
3:00:46Treaty, sir?
3:00:50He does it better than you, general.
3:00:53But then, of course, he is almost an Arab.
3:01:10You really don't know?
3:01:14Then what the devil's this?
3:01:17It's my request for release from Arabia, sir.
3:01:21For what reason?
3:01:23You sure you haven't heard of the Sykes-Picot Treaty?
3:01:25No.
3:01:27- I can guess. - Don't guess. Tell him.
3:01:32Well, now...
3:01:34Mr. Sykes is an English civil servant.
3:01:37Monsieur Picot is a French civil servant.
3:01:41Mr. Sykes and Monsieur Picot met, and they agreed that after the war...
3:01:45...France and England should share the Turkish Empire.
3:01:49Including Arabia.
3:01:51They signed an agreement, not a treaty, sir.
3:01:55An agreement to that effect.
3:01:59There may be honour among thieves, but there's none in politicians.
3:02:03And let's have no displays of indignation.
3:02:06You may not have known, but you certainly had suspicions.
3:02:09If we've told lies, you've told half-lies.
3:02:13And a man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth.
3:02:18But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
3:02:23The truth is I'm an ordinary man.
3:02:27You might have told me that, Dryden.
3:02:31And I want an ordinary job, sir.
3:02:33That's my reason for resigning.
3:02:36It's personal.
3:02:38- Personal? - Yes, sir.
3:02:41Personal? You're a serving officer in the field.
3:02:44And as it happens, a damned important one. Are you mad?
3:02:48No, and if you don't mind, I'd rather not go mad.
3:02:51That's my reason too.
3:02:53Look, I'm making my big push on Damascus the 16th of next month...
3:02:59...and you are part of it.
3:03:01Can you understand that? You're an important part of the big push!
3:03:05I don't want to be part of your big push!
3:03:10What about your Arab friends?
3:03:12I have no Arab friends! I don't want Arab friends!
3:03:16What in hell do you want, Lawrence?
3:03:18I've told you, I just want my ration of common humanity.
3:03:24- Lawrence. - Yes?
3:03:29Nothing. Sorry I interrupted, sir.
3:03:32That's all right. Thank you, Mr. Dryden.
3:03:35Thank you, sir.
3:03:38Why don't we...?
3:03:42There's blood on your back.
3:03:45- Do you want a doctor? - No.
3:03:50Tell me what happened.
3:03:57Say, what goes on in there?
3:04:00- Nothing. - Oh, come on!
3:04:02- No, really. Nothing at all. - Is the man in trouble?
3:04:06I expect so. We all have troubles. Life's a vale of troubles.
3:04:10Let me know if the man's in trouble. I've got a claim in that man.
3:04:14- What claim? - I've made that boy a hero.
3:04:18When the war's over, he can be anything he wants.
3:04:21Yes. Well, at the moment he wants to be somebody else.
3:04:25Will you kindly allow me to pass?
3:04:29Walk away, Dryden, walk away.
3:04:31Always walking away, aren't you?
3:04:35Well, I'll tell you.
3:04:36It's a clash of temperament that's going on in there.
3:04:39Inevitably, one of them's half-mad...
3:04:43...and the other, wholly unscrupulous.
3:04:46I believe your name will be a household word...
3:04:50...when you'd have to go to the war museum to find who Allenby was.
3:04:54You're the most extraordinary man I ever met.
3:04:58Leave me alone.
3:05:00- Leave me alone. - That's a feeble thing to say.
3:05:02- I know I'm not ordinary. - That's not what I'm saying.
3:05:05All right, I'm extraordinary.
3:05:10What of it?
3:05:11Not many people have a destiny, Lawrence.
3:05:14It's a terrible thing for a man to flunk it if he has.
3:05:18Are you speaking from experience?
3:05:20No.
3:05:22You're guessing, then.
3:05:25Suppose you're wrong.
3:05:26Why suppose that? We both know I'm right.
3:05:30- Yes. I said, yes. - After all...
3:05:36- The 16th? - Can you do it?
3:05:38I'll give you a lot of money.
3:05:40- Artillery? - I can't.
3:05:44They won't be coming for money, not the best of them.
3:05:48They'll be coming for Damascus.
3:05:51Which I'm going to give them.
3:05:54That's all I want.
3:05:56All you want is someone holding down the Turkish Right.
3:06:00But I'm going to give them Damascus. We'll get there before you do.
3:06:04And when we've got it, we'll keep it.
3:06:07Tell the politicians to burn their paper now.
3:06:10Fair enough.
3:06:12Fair? What's fair got to do with it?
3:06:16It's going to happen.
3:06:18I shall want quite a lot of money.
3:06:21All there is.
3:06:23Not that much.
3:06:28The best of them won't come for money.
3:06:33They'll come for me.
3:06:53No pictures!
3:06:54It's not for you, it's for Major Lawrence.
3:06:57He doesn't mind having his picture taken. He doesn't mind at all.
3:07:01Well, there's only one Lawrence.
3:07:08Have you met Major Lawrence since he's come back?
3:07:11Yes.
3:07:12- Changed, hasn't he? - No.
3:07:15Oh, I'd say he had. Different man, I'd say.
3:07:22What did that Turkish general do to him in Deraa?
3:07:27He was the same man after Deraa. The same man, humbled.
3:07:33What did the English general do to him in Jerusalem?
3:07:36Search me. Ask Lawrence.
3:07:38- I did. - What did he say?
3:07:40He laughed.
3:07:42He told me to gather the Harith here.
3:07:45He offered me money.
3:07:47Did you take it?
3:07:50No. But many did.
3:08:30- What is this? - This is my bodyguard.
3:08:34There is not a man without a price on his head.
3:08:37- There's a price on my head too. - But these are murderers.
3:08:40The sheiks will hang these men.
3:08:43These men are mine.
3:08:45Lawrence, these things know nothing of the Arab revolt.
3:08:50- You, Ghitan of Aleppo. - Sharif?
3:08:53- Where do we ride? - Damascus, Sharif.
3:08:56Aye, but for what?
3:08:59Sharif, for Lawrence.
3:09:04- You have bought these things. - I bought half the men here, Ali.
3:09:07That is different. These are not ordinary men.
3:09:10I don't want ordinary men. Hut!
3:09:17Damascus!
3:09:20Damascus! Damascus!
3:09:59Very well, gentlemen. The cavalry's gone through Mazril and Deraa.
3:10:03Very good, by the way. Very good indeed. Now your turn.
3:10:06If the enemy's retreating in any order, which we'll assume...
3:10:10Certainly.
3:10:12He can't be far from Mallud...
3:10:14...in which case I can have him within range by 0900 hours tomorrow.
3:10:18Splendid. Philip.
3:10:21These are the last infantry supports going up now.
3:10:24But Mallud, we could have the fusiliers there by Wednesday.
3:10:28That'll do for now. The guns are what matter.
3:10:32Any questions?
3:10:33This Arab army on the right, sir, what's it consist of?
3:10:38Irregular cavalry, sir. About 2000.
3:10:40Where are they now?
3:10:43- Can only know by being with them. - Then get with them. I want to know.
3:10:48Pound them, Charley.
3:10:51Pound them.
3:11:03God help the men who lie under that.
3:11:06They're Turks.
3:11:08God help them.
3:11:52Well, he's got the bit between his teeth all right.
3:11:56Cocky?
3:11:58More than cocky, sir.
3:12:00He's got the bit between his teeth all right.
3:12:03I tell you, sir, I think he'll get to Damascus before we do.
3:12:08- Unless... - Unless?
3:12:10Well, there's a Turkish column in front of him, out of Mazril.
3:12:14- What do the Turks have in Mazril? - A brigade, sir.
3:12:20I wonder where they are now.
3:14:04No prisoners.
3:14:09Damascus, Lawrence.
3:14:21Lawrence, not this.
3:14:24Go round. Damascus, Lawrence, Damascus.
3:14:29No prisoners.
3:14:41This was Talaal's village.
3:14:47Talaal!
3:15:09No prisoners!
3:15:24God.
3:15:33God!
3:17:51Enough. Enough! Make them stop!
3:19:32Major!
3:19:34Major Lawrence!
3:19:41Jesus wept.
3:20:01Does it surprise you, Mr. Bentley?
3:20:04Surely you know the Arabs are a barbarous people.
3:20:07Barbarous and cruel.
3:20:10Who but they?
3:20:16Oh, you rotten man.
3:20:19Here, let me take your rotten bloody picture.
3:20:26For the rotten bloody newspapers.
3:20:54These were cut last night, Lawrence, in Damascus.
3:20:58Damascus!
3:21:00Take them to Sharif Ali.
3:21:02Tell him.
3:21:05Remind him.
3:21:07- Is Allenby in Damascus? - Near.
3:21:11Tell Sharif Ali that.
3:21:15They are not ripe.
3:21:22General salute!
3:21:25Present arms!
3:21:41Port arms!
3:21:46Lawrence is behind it, sir.
3:21:48The whole town is plastered with the Arab flag.
3:21:57- When? - A day and a night, sir.
3:21:59They've been here a day and a night.
3:22:01They've occupied the town. They've done it.
3:22:04He's set up his own headquarters in the town hall.
3:22:09What else beside the town hall?
3:22:11Telephone exchange, post office, powerhouse...
3:22:14...hospitals, fire station. Everything, sir.
3:22:17They call themselves the Arab National Council...
3:22:20...and they're in the town hall.
3:22:22Well, they're your pigeon, Harry.
3:22:26What should we do about it?
3:22:28Get them out of it, sir, quick time.
3:22:31How about that, Dryden?
3:22:35Not unless you want a full-scale rising.
3:22:39- What, then? - When will Faisal be in Damascus?
3:22:42By special train in two days' time.
3:22:44Two days.
3:22:46Two days is what you asked for. I can't keep him out any longer.
3:22:49- Isn't it enough? - Yes.
3:22:51- Ample, I should think. - We can't just do nothing.
3:22:55Why not? It's usually best. Get us something to drink, Tracey.
3:22:59And Tracey, all troops to remain quartered until further orders.
3:23:04Does that apply to technical units?
3:23:06Technical units particularly.
3:23:08Yes, sir.
3:23:10Medicals too, sir?
3:23:12I'm afraid so, Harry.
3:23:14Medicals too.
3:23:56We here...
3:23:58...are neither Harith nor Howeitat...
3:24:01...nor any other tribe, but Arabs...
3:24:05...of the Arab Council, acting for Prince Faisal.
3:24:08He insulted me.
3:24:11Sharif Ali said that the telephones are in the care of the Howeitat...
3:24:16...and they have ceased to work. And this is true.
3:24:19They will not work because they are given no electricity.
3:24:23The electricity is in the care of the Harith.
3:24:29If you answer, there will be bloodshed.
3:24:32You speak to me of bloodshed?
3:24:38I ask pardon of Auda Abu Tayi.
3:24:43Humbly?
3:24:44Humbly, Harith?
3:24:46Yes, humbly.
3:24:48This is a new trick.
3:24:52Why is there no electricity?
3:24:54I have been to that electrical house, Lawrence.
3:24:57There are three large machines.
3:25:00He means generators!
3:25:03So.
3:25:05One of them is burning.
3:25:07They are of an incredible size, but helpless.
3:25:10It is so of all machines.
3:25:13Let them burn. What need of telephones?
3:25:20- The need is absolute. - Then we need English engineers.
3:25:23No. Take English engineers and you take English government.
3:25:27Take...
3:25:32Fire has broken out.
3:25:34- Where? - The Jinsibi district.
3:25:36- It is not a district that matters. - It will spread!
3:25:39Then use the fire brigade!
3:25:41We have tried, but there is no force in the water.
3:25:44Then you must carry it.
3:25:46- The Ruala do not carry water. - What else are they good for?
3:26:02We will hear petitions this afternoon.
3:26:09This afternoon!
3:26:34- I'll take this up after the war. - Surely we should do something, sir.
3:26:38- It's an old man's sport. - Are you an old man, sir?
3:26:43All I can say is, sir, it's a heavy responsibility.
3:26:47Sorry, sir.
3:26:50Maybe it's the bulb.
3:26:57No, sir.
3:26:58It's the power.
3:27:15They're leaving.
3:27:17That's it, then.
3:27:20Marvellous-looking beggars, aren't they?
3:27:43Leave it, Lawrence. Come with me.
3:27:46- Come where? - Back.
3:27:52I know your heart.
3:28:03What is it?
3:28:06Is it this?
3:28:10I tell you, this is nothing.
3:28:26Is it the blood?
3:28:29The desert has dried up more blood than you could think of.
3:28:34I pray that I may never see the desert again.
3:28:39Hear me, God.
3:28:42You will come. There is only the desert for you.
3:29:03What about you?
3:29:05No, I shall stay here and learn politics.
3:29:11A very low occupation.
3:29:13I had not thought of it when I met you.
3:29:25You have tried very hard to give us Damascus.
3:29:28It's what I came for.
3:29:33And then...
3:29:37...it would be something.
3:29:39Yes.
3:29:41Much.
3:30:01- He is your friend? - Take your hand away.
3:30:04- You love him. - I fear him.
3:30:05Then why do you weep?
3:30:07If I fear him, who love him...
3:30:10...how must he fear himself, who hates himself?
3:30:13Take your hand away, Howeitat!
3:30:18So you are not yet entirely politician.
3:30:22Not yet.
3:30:23Well, these are new tricks, and I am an old dog.
3:30:28And Allah be thanked.
3:30:31I'll tell thee what...
3:30:32...being an Arab will be thornier than you suppose, Harith.
3:30:57In all my years, I've never seen anything like it.
3:31:01It comes within the jurisdiction of the Arab Council.
3:31:04Under the circumstances, I think I must take over. Immediately.
3:31:08Under any circumstances at all, you must obey your orders.
3:31:12No, sir, I will not.
3:31:14Control yourself.
3:31:16Now, go over to the town hall and see what they say.
3:31:20We did what we could in the civic hospitals.
3:31:23But you forgot the Turkish Military Hospital.
3:31:26It has 600 beds. There are about 2000 Turkish wounded in it.
3:31:31All of whom are the responsibility of your precious Arab Council.
3:31:42What's it like?
3:33:01This is outrageous!
3:33:04Outrageous!
3:33:12You filthy little wog!
3:33:25My friend Lawrence, if I may call him that.
3:33:29"My friend Lawrence."
3:33:32How many men will claim the right to use that phrase? How proudly.
3:33:36He longs for the greenness of his native land.
3:33:39He pines for the Gothic cottages of Surrey, is it not?
3:33:45Already in imagination, he catches trout...
3:33:49...and all the activities of the English gentleman.
3:33:52That's me you're describing, sir, not Colonel Lawrence.
3:33:57You're promoted colonel.
3:33:59Yes. What for?
3:34:02Take the honour, colonel. Be a little kind.
3:34:05As a colonel, you'll have a cabin to yourself on the boat home.
3:34:10Then, thank you.
3:34:16Well, then...
3:34:18...Godspeed.
3:34:20There's nothing further here for a warrior.
3:34:24We drive bargains. Old men's work.
3:34:28Young men make wars, and the virtues of war...
3:34:31...are the virtues of young men.
3:34:33Courage and hope for the future.
3:34:37Then old men make the peace.
3:34:40And the vices of peace are the vices of old men.
3:34:44Mistrust and caution.
3:34:47It must be so.
3:35:05What I owe you is beyond evaluation.
3:35:20The powerhouse, the telephone exchange, these I concede.
3:35:23The pumping plant I must retain.
3:35:25If you retain it, there will be no water.
3:35:28- I shall be glad of assistance. - Then you must bring down your flag.
3:35:32I shall not, and if your men attempt it, my men will resist it.
3:35:36- Have you men? - Enough for that.
3:35:38It's a thing that makes an ugly incident.
3:35:41I'm sure your government...
3:35:43...does not wish to appear at the peace conference as an aggressor.
3:35:49I say!
3:35:52It's Lawrence, isn't it?
3:35:56May I shake your hand, sir?
3:36:00Just want to be able to say I'd done it, sir.
3:36:06Haven't we met before?
3:36:08Don't think so, sir.
3:36:10No, no, sir, I should remember that.
3:36:18It is widely known the Arab Council took power in my name.
3:36:23They have no power. It's illusory.
3:36:25Illusions can be very powerful.
3:36:28Particularly...
3:36:30...when they take this form.
3:36:35The world is delighted at the picture of Damascus...
3:36:38...liberated by the Arab army.
3:36:41Led, may I remind you, by a British-serving officer.
3:36:44Ah, yes. But then Lawrence is a sword with two edges.
3:36:50We are equally glad to be rid of him, are we not?
3:36:56I thought I was a hard man, sir.
3:36:59You are merely a general.
3:37:04I must be a king.
3:37:09Excuse me, sir.
3:37:25Well?
3:37:27Well...
3:37:29...it seems we're to have a British waterworks...
3:37:32...with an Arab flag on it.
3:37:35Do you think it was worth it?
3:37:37Not my business. Thank God I'm a soldier.
3:37:40Yes, sir.
3:37:41So you keep saying.
3:37:43You, I suspect...
3:37:45...are chief architect of this compromise.
3:37:50- What do you think? - Me, Your Highness?
3:37:53On the whole, I wish I'd stayed in Tunbridge Wells.
3:38:36Well, sir. Going home.
3:38:41Home, sir.

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