The Mountain Road (1960)
James Stewart: Maj. Baldwin
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Major Baldwin : Colonel, I'm gonna blow up this road. Now, how can we keep the people off?
Col. Kwan : Off?
Major Baldwin : Well, I-I, I need them stopped for about ten minutes. Can you do it?
Col. Kwan : How?
Major Baldwin : Well, uh, how 'bout, uh, how 'bout if we get a couple of empty gasoline drums, put 'em on either side of the road, stretch a rope across.
Col. Kwan : They'd go under the rope.
Major Baldwin : Well, then we get some Chinese soldiers to explain to them, explain to them that we're cutting the road. How 'bout that?
Col. Kwan : The soldiers will want to get through themselves.
Major Baldwin : Well, could we give them something?
Col. Kwan : What?
Major Baldwin : Well, money?
Col. Kwan : They cannot spend money here.
Major Baldwin : Well, food. How 'bout food? We got 'K' rations, cigarettes. How about cigarettes? What'll they take for the job?
[Kwan Says something in Chinese]
Major Baldwin : [Angrily] I don't speak Chinese, Colonel.
Col. Kwan : There is no way.
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Gen. Loomis : You know what command is, major?
Maj. Baldwin : Well, sir, the book says...
Gen. Loomis : Command is power. Pure, simple, unlimited.
