When Trumpets Fade (1998 TV Movie)

Frank Whaley: Medic Chamberlain

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• Medic Chamberlain : [Has overheard Manning's selfish deal]  Tell ya what Dave. You find yourself out there in the middle of a fire fight, with your guts hanging out, screaming for a medic, if I can help you without endangering my own life, I won't hesitate.

• Sgt. Talbot : [Points gun at Manning's head]  You executed Baxter!

  Pvt. David Manning : You're damn right I did! He ran, you'd have done the same thing!

  Medic Chamberlain : Put the gun down, Talbot!

  Sgt. Talbot : Shut up!

  Pvt. David Manning : Go ahead. We're all dead anyway.

• Medic Chamberlain : What's your name?

  Warren Sanderson : Warren.

  Medic Chamberlain : Welcome to the death factory, Warren.

• Medic Chamberlain : [Instructing new recruit]  You don't think about it, you don't hesitate, you just do it, you understand? Otherwise, you're gonna go home to your mama in a box, alright?

• Medic Chamberlain : [Running forward in the smoke]  Manning!

  Pvt. David Manning : [Sees a German soldier aiming his gun at Chamberlain]  No!

• Pvt. David Manning : [looking at bodies at the side of the road]  Why do they leave them there like that?

  Medic Chamberlain : Fucking brass. They don't wanna waste the trucks on the dead, they still got more guys to haul in for the slaughter.

  Pvt. David Manning : No more room in hell.

  Medic Chamberlain : What are you talking about? There's plenty of room. All they gotta do is stack'em higher.

• Pvt. David Manning : The way I see it, we've got two choices. We can settle for being slaughtered in the push tomorrow, or we can take those tanks out tonight.

  Sgt. Talbot : There's no way in hell company will approve that.

  Pvt. David Manning : This isn't about company, if we do it, it's just us. We'll slip past the lines unchecked, just another sorry ass patrol.

  Medic Chamberlain : Let me get this straight. Yesterday, you were pulling for a section eight. Now you wanna lead some kind of renegade force, against the German tanks.

  Pvt. David Manning : The question is, how do we stay alive. What you think of me doesn't really matter.

• Pvt. David Manning : Anything notable?

  Medic Chamberlain : Those fucking tanks again. They've been jamming their barrels down our throat from that fucking high ground for a week now. Air Corps can't see'em, artillery can't hit'em. They better find some way in knocking those fuckers out, and I mean fast.

  Pvt. David Manning : What about the 88's?

  Medic Chamberlain : They're still out there. Tanks on our right side, 88 millimeter cannons on our left side. This fucking army.

  Pvt. David Manning : Fucking army.

• Pvt. David Manning : Shit flows down.

  Medic Chamberlain : Goddamn right. Regiment wipes its ass with Battalion, Battalion wipes its ass clean with Company, and we're left to lick the shit off of them. Mark my words, they're gonna keep sending us in until the whole fucking division is gone.