The Train (1964)

Albert Rémy: Didont

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• Didont : With luck, no one will be hurt.

  Labiche : No one's ever hurt. Just dead.

  Didont : Paul, uh, have you ever seen any of those paintings on that train? I haven't. You know, when it's over, I think maybe we should take a look, hmm?

• Spinet : Right after dawn, all switching tracks and trains in the area will be bombed. The art train is not to be destroyed. Orders are to mark it so that the planes will pass it up.

  Labiche : Mark it!

  Spinet : White paint, on the top of the first three cars. London has decided the paintings must not be damaged.

  Labiche : Paint it? For von Waldheim - make him a present? To hell with London! We started this whole thing for one reason: to stop the train, because the Allies were going to be here! Well, where are they? Every day they've been due, and every day a man has been killed for thinking they were just over the next hill. I say to hell with them. Now they want us to paint the train? Let 'em blow it up!

  Didont : Paul, it'd be too bad, if it got blown up... that is, if it could be saved. Papa Boule, Pesquet, the others... they wanted it saved.

  Labiche : And they're dead. And they'll never know!

  Didont : But we will.

• Didont : I don't like it.

  Pesquet : Who does?

  Didont : I mean the art train. If the Germans want it so much, maybe we should do something.

• Pesquet : You can get killed stopping a train.

  Didont : Especially if you're French, and the train's German.

• Labiche : Forget the art train. We'll have enough to do tomorrow. Which reminds me, I'll need another engineer for the art train. I'll have to give it to Papa Boule.

  Pesquet : Papa Boule?

  Didont : Not Papa Boule!

  Labiche : I don't have any choice. Who else is there?