Zulu (1964)
Nigel Green: Colour-Sergeant Bourne
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Quotes
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Pvt. Cole : Why is it us? Why us?
Colour Sergeant Bourne : Because we're here, lad. Nobody else. Just us.
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Colour Sergeant Bourne : It's a miracle.
Lieutenant John Chard : If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber miracle.
Colour Sergeant Bourne : And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind.
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[Bourne calls the roll after the battle]
Colour Sergeant Bourne : Hitch... Hitch, I saw you. You're alive.
Pvt. Hitch : I am? Oh, thanks very much.
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Colour Sergeant Bourne : A prayer's as good as bayonet on a day like this.
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Reverend Otto Witt : [shouting, drunkenly] He breaketh the bow and snappeth the spear in sunder!
Color Sgt. Bourne : [under his breath] I shall be exalted among the 'eathens... I shall be exalted in the Earth.
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Lieutenant John Chard : Mr. Bourne, there should be 12 more men working on this redoubt.
Color Sgt. Bourne : They're very tired, sir.
[Chard whirls around]
Lieutenant John Chard : I don't give a damn! And I want this wall nine feet high, firing steps on the inside. Form details to clear away the Zulu bodies, rebuild the south rampart, keep 'em moving! Do you understand?
Color Sgt. Bourne : Yes sir... very good, sir.
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Color Sgt. Bourne : [doing roll call] Hughes!
Hughes : Excused duty!
[the soldiers begin to laugh]
Color Sgt. Bourne : No comedians, please. Hughes.
Hughes : Yes, Colour Sergeant.
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Colour Sergeant Bourne : [Quoting Psalm 46, v10-11 just before the battle] I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of Hosts is with us.
Cpl. William Allen : I hope so. As I live and die, I hope so.
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Hughes : Colour Sergeant Bourne! What's that shooting?
Colour Sergeant Bourne : A rifle, Hughes.
Hughes : Eh?
Colour Sergeant Bourne : If you're sick in hospital, I'd suggest you go and lie down.
Hughes : Yes, Colour Sergeant.
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Colour Sergeant Bourne : The Lord of Hosts is with us.
Cpl. William Allen : I hope so... as I live and die, I hope so.
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[repeated line]
Colour Sergeant Bourne : All right, nobody told you to stop working.
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Colour Sergeant Bourne : The sentries report Zulus to the southwest. Thousands of them.