The Outsider (1961) Movie Script
1
- Hey, look who's here!
- Hi, Jake.
I thought I'd have to walk. How are you, kid?
Fine. Here, let me take that.
You know, everybody around here
is pretty proud of you, Sergeant.
It was a breeze. Wait till I make General.
What's it like out there?
Cuckoo. You know what they did?
They rounded up all the Indian GIs and made us radio men.
'Cause they figured if we talked Indian to each
other, the enemy'd never break the code.
But they didn't figure that a Pima doesn't know what
the heck a Cherokee's talking about, or vice versa.
So now I'm back with my old outfit again.
What I mean, Jay, the guys in your outfit. Are they okay?
Oh, sometimes you've got to bite on a nail pretty hard,
but they're not too different from us.
Hello, Mr. Alvarez. Heard from your son?
- He's in Africa now. How are you?
- Great.
- Jay, I mean, are they friendly?
- Sure they're friendly.
Come on, now, tell me about here.
I want to know everything.
Jay, I just got to...
How's my wife? You seen her?
Oh, she's fine. She's gonna have
a baby. But I guess you know that.
I should. They doin' anything about water around here?
Well, all that stopped when I went into the army.
No, they're still talking. You know.
Talk. They'll talk themselves right
into the Museum of Natural History.
You ought to see the ditches in pale-faced
country, full enough to breed whales in.
And swimming pools? I bet I saw
a thousand flying over Phoenix.
Jay, I just got to show you this.
Oh, come on. You're just a kid.
But my parents have to sign. They don't know about it yet.
I'll be a son of a gun. Ira Hayes a Marine!
That's tremendous.
You're the first one I told.
Mom, hey!
They sent this Judas' coat to lead
our boys to the slaughter.
- Come on, Kenny, don't turn it off!
- Oh, you're clean enough!
- I was speaking.
- Boys, be quiet, uncle was speaking.
Hey, he's no relation. How come we call him uncle?
Mom, I have to talk to him.
It's a big sergeant now, Mr. Know-it-all.
A white man in Judas' coat to lead our boys to slaughter.
Uncle, are you talking about Jay Morago?
I'm talking of the fools who leave
the old folks to scratch the ground
while they follow the white man under the field of shame.
Shame? Uncle, but the war's for everybody.
You know only what a prairie dog knows.
How to lie in the sun and dream.
He knows what I taught him.
Ira's no dreamer. He's a good boy.
Did you teach him the history of our betrayals,
of the peaceful life we had here in the garden of the Lord,
where the earth was like butter
and the Gila River was full?
My people helped the white man,
fought with him against the Apaches.
My people fed his armies.
Uncle, don't you mean our people?
Mine! I'm a Pima. I don't know what you are.
They deeded us the waters of the river forever.
Year after year, they took it away until now,
we're like fish dying in a pool of dust.
Uncle, they promised us water. We'll get it. You'll see.
The white man is the enemy!
And those who fight his war are traitors to the tribe.
Uncle, if that's a traitor,
well, I guess I'm a traitor too.
I'm enlisting in the Marines. I'm supposed to go tomorrow.
Boy, that's great! Isn't that great?
All I need is for you and Pop to sign.
When you were four years old, you saw some man kill a cow.
You came home, and you looked at the meat in your dish.
And you got real sore at me.
You said, "Mother, I'm not gonna eat cow meat anymore."
"I'm only gonna eat meat that you buy from the store."
How are you gonna shoot someone, when
you couldn't even stand to watch them kill a cow?
They'll show me.
Who? The white man?
You hardly ever talk to one.
How do you know they're even gonna talk to you?
I'll listen when they talk to each other.
Smart boy.
You're gonna be in the same uniform.
That don't mean they're gonna be your friend.
For that, it's gonna be easy for you.
I'll do like Jay did. I'll bite on the nail.
He got along fine.
He says they're just like us.
Mom, I've got to have a clean pair of socks.
Mom, I'm not a baby anymore.
I know you're scared for me.
- I'm not scared.
But someday you're gonna have
to let me go, and I've got to do this.
Mom, I've got to be the best marine they ever saw.
Please, Mom.
Hey, Mom, you gonna let him go?
I know you're gonna be a good marine.
But don't forget to be a good Pima boy.
And go to church.
Mom, I won't miss once.
You people, get off the truck!
Off the truck!
Off the truck!
Align up four rows, like four rows of corn.
Get in there!
Face me! Quickly!
Turn around!
Hold up the hand you eat with.
That is your right hand.
You will find your right foot is on the
same side of your body as your right hand.
You will place your gear by your right foot.
Do it!
Heels together.
Toes pointed out at a 45-degree angle.
Palms in.
Palms along the seams of your trousers.
Shoulders back.
Chest out.
Chin in.
Your eyes looking at the whole
of the man's head in front of you.
You will live this way from now on.
Your platoon number is 7-0-1.
I am Sergeant Kiley, your drill instructor.
I have been watching you blobs fall
through your nostrils for the past two minutes.
You are gonna learn something about discipline.
Now, I'm not your mommy.
Your mom is not here to protect you or to
pick up after you or to kiss it where it hurts.
You treat me like you do your
momma and you wish you were dead.
You got a name, girl?
Sorensen, sir.
Best man on the campus at military school?
Yes, sir.
You know, I did not give the command "about face".
I did not give the command "attention", but
you did those things anyway, didn't you?
Yes, sir.
And you did them perfectly too, didn't you?
I think so, sir.
You think too much, General.
From here on out, you have nothing
between your ears except a blood clot.
And the only one that thinks is me. Is that clear?
Yes, sir.
What are you, grinning and cow-eyed? You in love with me?
No.
No, sir.
No, sir.
How many scalps you got in your pocket?
None, sir. I'm a Pima Indian, sir. We don't do that, sir.
You just think I'm about the
funnest thing you ever saw, don't you?
No, sir.
Are you as happy as a duck? Can you quack like a duck?
Yes, sir.
Well, just don't say yes. Let me see you do it.
Get out there and squat down
and put your hands on your head.
Ah, let's hear it.
Quack, quack, quack.
Well, let's see you waddle like a duck. Back and forth.
Quack, quack, quack.
Keep waddling and keep quacking
until that idiot grin goes away.
That will be the last grin out of any of you.
If anybody thinks that's funny, I'll visit his grave.
Because that's where you all end up if
you think there's anything funny about war.
Now, pick up your gear.
You too, Chief.
When I say so, you will move
into that building as fast as you can.
Now, go! Go!
You regular old cuddle bunny.
Get out of my sight, you meathead!
Yes, sir!
All right, you strip queens, finish up.
You will scrub those slimy bodies and
remove all dirt, grease and animal life.
When you come out, you will be sweet-smelling and newborn.
Because that's what's happening to you, meathead.
Why are you bleeding, house mouse?
Sir, I cut myself shaving.
Did I tell you to bleed?
No, sir.
Then stop.
Oh, Chief, that water's not gonna hurt you.
Don't you ever bathe?
Dear parents and brothers,
Well, here I am in boot camp.
Just about the first thing they did was give us a shower.
Hot water, cold water, or both mixed together.
Dad, I bet what I used on me alone,
you could irrigate a whole cotton crop.
My drill instructor is a great man, and he sure likes me.
He even calls me Chief.
You should hear the bull sessions we have.
And I'm always in them.
One of the gang.
I'm finding real good buddies here.
It sure is great.
You will swim the width of the pool five times.
When I say "On your marks, go",
you will jump into the water and you will go.
Is that clear?
Yes, sir!
Well, let's see how you do it.
On your marks.
- But, sir...
Go!
Take him out!
Hey, hey, General, over here.
Grab that guy, General.
Why didn't you tell me you can't swim?
You didn't ask me, sir.
You will get back into the water and you will learn.
Esther Williams here will teach you.
Because when I ordered Esther Williams to jump,
she decided to die.
Esther Williams will teach you
how to swim better than she does.
Won't you?
Yes, sir!
Now, get in the water.
Yes, sir.
Anymore of you goody-birds didn't speak up,
you better do it now.
You know how to do anything?
I'm sorry.
All right, all right.
Now, look, let's learn how to make some bubbles, huh?
Now, watch me breathe, right?
Right.
Like this?
No, no, no.
Like this, like this.
That's right.
You got that?
Dear parents and brothers,
The most popular guy in my platoon is teaching me to swim.
Sorensen!
His name is Sorensen and he's really swell to me.
Come back here. Come on.
Breathe in, that's it.
All the way!
All the way!
All the way!
All the way, 701! All the way!
All the way, 701! All the way!
All the way, 701! All the way!
Well, don't just stand there, do something,
you'll get out of the pot.
I want to lose that one.
You're not gonna marry that type. Let's go, let's go!
Hey, General!
Your papoose can't get over the wall.
Yes, sir!
Go!
Go!
Go!
Yoooo!
Attack!
Withdraw!
Dear parents and brothers,
when you wrote me how Jay Morago
got a battlefield commission,
it sure made me proud to be a Pima.
One, sir!
Two, sir!
One, sir!
Two, sir!
You sound like a bunch of old ladies.
Well, I'm making the guys know a Pima
Indian makes a real gung-ho marine, too.
Us Pimas are doing pretty good.
What are you doing, pitching pebbles?
Yep.
I bet you're sad about losing our tigers tomorrow.
Easy come, easy go.
You sure rode this bunch, man!
How's their discipline now?
They're, uh... cleaning equipment.
How's your discipline?
Fine, sir!
Do you love the marine?
Yes, sir!
It sure makes me sad to think boot camp is over.
I'm gonna miss all this, but my
life belongs to the marines now.
My buddies are getting ready to
go into San Diego on our first liberty,
and they invited me to go with them.
Now, come on, come on, you guys.
Let's get weaving before the
Navy takes all the goodies, huh?
I'm ready.
Take the part, house mouse.
I'll be stepping on your heel.
See you, chief.
Hey, where are you guys going? What are you gonna do?
Oh, I don't know, we... We got some plans.
- Let's go!
- Hey, come on, comin'!
Hey, wait a minute!
Be seein' you, chief.
I guess we'll catch a show or something.
But whatever we do, we'll be together,
as this is the only chance we'll have to celebrate
before some of us are split up.
Attention!
Relax, tiger, just checking.
Aye, aye, sir.
Why don't you go on time with your buddies?
I thought I'd finish this letter, sir.
Okay, chief.
Carry on.
Aye, aye, sir.
Chief, over here!
Come on!
Welcome, old chief, from the great green grass in Limpopo.
Grab a chair and grab a pow-wow.
Sin is flowing free.
Yeah, let's go.
Oh, he's lost. They're playing his song, you know?
I'd like you to meet Lucy the Moose.
- Hi.
All right, everybody, listen.
House mouse is gonna do it alone this time.
Buy the numbers.
- All right.
- All right.
- Are you ready?
- Ready.
One.
One, sir.
Two.
Two, sir.
Three.
Three, sir.
Go, go, go.
All the way, sir.
701, all the way, 701.
Come on, honey, dance with me.
I don't know how.
Oh, but it's easy. Let me teach you.
I'm afraid I'll get to like it.
Well, well, well, papoose.
Hi, Sorenson.
Hey, any of these knuckleheads order your drink?
No, no, but it's okay.
Hey, Tyre! Tyre, come on.
Drinks for my foster child here, let's go.
No, it's all right. I'm just happy
just to sit here and watch. It's fine.
Well, then flee!
No one stays and doesn't share the cup, right?
Anyway, it's against the law to sell an Indian liquor.
If you're good enough to be a marine,
you're damn well good enough to have a drink.
Now, where's the pig that's serving this do? Hey!
Oi, soy, piggy piggy piggy!
Hey! Oi, oi!
- I'm right here.
Now, you will bring another round for all personnel.
You will bring three for my friend here.
You will bring him what you bring me, bourbon and coke.
And some pot pot!
Now, go! Get out of my sight!
Go, go, go!
Go, go, go!
Yes, sir.
All right, now, wait.
We gotta find out what he's gonna drink to.
The floor is open for suggestions.
The Pocahontas.
To the Indian.
And to the Marines! You have to drink to that, right?
Right!
Now, I think what we should do right here is
sit here and count the polka dots on polka dots.
By the numbers.
And one, and... wait a minute.
Wait a minute. Where are you going?
I'll be back. I'll be back in a minute.
No, look. We're gonna have a drink.
I know. I've gotta go.
You know where they...
Oh, yeah. It's at the end of the bar.
End of the bar on your left there, see?
Right on the left. Hey! Two minutes!
Now, go ahead.
- Right.
Right!
All right, now, smile.
I can't smile. I want one serious.
Just a little smile. Come on. Natural.
It'll make your mama happy.
Donald!
Hey, I've been looking for you.
Here papoose, take off without his bottle.
Papoose thought he would.
Little Papoose, no like him drink up toast to Marine Corps.
James, James, James.
Uh, uh, Sorensen, I never had a drink.
I'm afraid what would happen. That's the truth.
Yeah, we'll ask him once more.
Yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
It's just half a bottle, you know?
Let's go, to the Marine Corps, papoose.
To the Marine Corps.
Yeah!
All right, well... One drink to the Marines.
Get out of my way!
It's the thought that counts.
"It's the thought that counts."
Isn't that cute?
Come on! Come on!
All the way!
All right, just come on.
All right, just come on.
I'm sorry.
I swear to God, I'm sorry.
So am I.
Hey, let's all go have a drink.
You guys go on ahead if you want to.
You get me home.
Me?
Yes.
Yes, I'll... I'll take him.
Cockadoodle-doo!
Where is everybody?
What are we doing here?
I didn't want to take you back the way you was, so...
I let you sleep it off.
Who's the papoose now, huh?
Hey!
You got a weed?
You sure do look a mess.
So do you.
You just sit here all night?
I like to look at water.
You talk a lot about water.
We don't have much at home.
But someday, when the war is over, me and
some of the boys, we're gonna try to get us some.
I never heard of a Pima till I met you.
That's the way it goes.
About the only ones you ever heard of were
the Apache, because they raised all the hell.
We never spilled a drop of white man's blood.
Are you kidding?
You know something?
Everything.
You're the first white man that ever was my friend.
You're the first Indian that ever was mine.
If you're about to kiss me, Banjo-butt,
I can tell you you're the wrong type.
Dear parents and brothers, dear everybody who is alive.
When you're in a war, you're dead already.
And the reason you fight is to come back to life.
I wonder how it would look if you could see it all at once.
A million ships.
Half the young men in the world.
Sometimes I can't believe this is me.
But that I'm here.
The sand on Iwo Jima tastes like sulfur.
That's all you know.
What things taste like, or what
you can see under your helmet.
There's not millions of anything.
Only me and Sorenson.
Now, what are you doing out on a day like this?
Ain't you got no sense?
Let's dig him a...
Keep your head down, crab.
Somebody just die?
I suppose.
The two greatest things that can happen
are when you're born and when you die.
When you're born, you're with someone.
I mean, you're... with your mother.
But when you die...
See, you never know when it'll happen, and...
you could be with nobody.
You know what I mean?
I heard the last thing most
people say when they die is, mama.
Isn't that amazing?
I mean, even guys 80 years old whose
mothers have been dead for ages, even them.
It's like...
like nothing's happened in all that time.
It's all they think of.
At least if you die here...
you die with somebody.
I mean...
you die with your friends.
You sleep closer than you ever did before.
And you make yourself breathe
in time with the other person.
Because it makes you know that
there's somebody else in the world.
Diamond, this is Diamond Five. Do you read me, over?
How's your company doing?
We lost half the guys we came with.
Diamond, this is Diamond Five. Do you read me, over?
We got to have some more muscle on the end of this fight.
Hey, get off your tails, you guys.
Give us a hand with this thing.
We'll put a bigger one up here so everyone can see it.
Come on, Chief, you two.
- Am I in your way?
- No, you're all right.
I sure hate to have my picture taken.
They always ask you to smile, and I never count them.
Say, chief.
One, two, three.
Did you get it?
Yeah, but I wish I could have seen their faces.
Hey, Sarge.
Boy...
That's something.
Look at that.
Ain't that something?
Did anyone identify the man who
rode Washington across the Delaware?
Did they identify the man in the Spirit of '76?
These things are symbols, and
the boys in the picture are symbols.
They're fighting men. They're not salesmen.
General Bridges,
the president has gone to the
people for money six times now.
Six war loan drives, and each time
we've had to find a bigger gimmick.
The public just won't shell out any more
money without getting some kind of a show.
I wonder if you realize just how much
excitement this picture has caused.
And you want me to pull six riflemen off of Iwo for a show?
Maybe you haven't seen our casualty list.
Don't you realize there's a hell
of a scrap going on in that island?
General, believe me, we understand.
This is a directive from the White House, sir.
They want them here, and they want them now.
Take cover, men!
Take cover!
It's rough. My God.
Where are they coming from?
We'll make it on the next try.
I bet you we're up there before it's dark.
Hey, Sorensen!
Please.
Hey, you guys!
Hotel back to the C.P. There's an urgent message for you.
What message?
I don't know. Get going!
All right, Captain, good luck.
Colonel, that was Easy Company.
Hayes should be here any second.
Sorenson's dead.
That means you only have three men left, Sergeant Boyle.
Three out of your original six.
Yes, sir. Gagnon, Hayes, and the Navy corpsman.
I thought Bradley was killed.
No, he's back at his feet again.
We'll pick him up at the hospital on Guam.
Sir! B.F.C. Hayes reporting C.P. as ordered, sir.
That is Hayes.
Yes, sir!
You've been pulled off the line to go back to Washington.
They want you matter in that flag-raising picture
to head up to 7th Wharvon Drive back there.
You proceed by water transportation to Guam with Gagnon
and your conducting officer, Sergeant Everett Boyle.
Hello, Hayes.
Sir?
That was the urgent message?
Bradley will join you there.
You will then proceed by military
air transport to Washington.
And went from Committee to the Senate floor.
There was another item on the Senate agenda today.
The three survivors of the Iwo Jima flag-raising
who arrived in the Capitol this morning
were given a hero's welcome
when the entire Senate rose for a standing ovation.
Later, the President took time out from a busy day
to meet them in his White House office.
The Pima Indian boy, Ira Hayes,
probably the greatest Indian hero since Jim Thorpe,
was the focus of...
Hey, everybody's waiting for you in the dining room.
What are you doing?
I was getting a little shut-eye.
Well, let's go. We ordered you a steak.
I ain't hungry.
Hey, you're a front page in the evening papers.
Take a look.
Oh.
Why don't you guys go ahead and start without me?
Boy, I thought all you front-line troops ever dreamed of
was white tablecloths and pretty waitresses and milk.
No, I don't want that.
What's wrong, Chief? What's bothering you?
Nothing. Nothing. I'm doing fine.
Level with me. What are you hiding from?
It's a detail, Hayes.
When you're on mess duty you scrub pots.
Now, maybe you don't like it, but you scrub 'em.
When you're on a bond tour, you smile and answer questions.
You take it all in stride.
I never was much of a talker.
And you were never a hero either.
So there's a first time for everything.
I'm no hero. I'm nothing.
All the heroes are dead.
Look, don't make me feel like I'm asking you to rob a bank.
Boyle, you're a nice guy, and I appreciate
everything you've done for me, but...
Listen, Ira, people make their heroes. Don't you know that?
They make them when they need something to believe in.
They made you. Now, you've got to play along.
I'm no hypocrite.
My mother told me you're what God made you, not people.
Your mother wasn't on Iwo Jima,
for crying out loud. Now, was she?
Come on, now.
I like you. I respect you.
But don't let yourself get all our stuff by this thing.
If you get hungry, come on down.
I've got to go or my steak will be cremated.
And Ira...
I wouldn't go spreading it around
about all the heroes being dead.
Nobody's gonna believe it.
That's not what they want to hear.
And they're gonna end up hating your guts.
You've got to help me, Sarge.
You gotta help me, Boyle.
That's what I'm here for.
Ira!
What's a celebrity like you doing on the loose?
Come on over here. I want to shake that hand.
We're taking you to a fabulous party,
and everybody's gonna drool.
- Can you see Cynthia's face when he walks into...
- You heard the ladies. Come on, Ira.
- No, excuse me. Thank you just the same, but...
- Come on!
I'm meeting a buddy of mine down... right here.
- So bring him along. Who's gonna count?
- Just one little drink.
No, thank you just the same. Thank you.
Come on...
Ah, let's go.
Hooray.
Two words. Hooray.
How.
What'll it be?
Coke will be fine.
I'm buying, Chief. Scotch, bourbon, anything.
It's on the house.
You know who I am, too?
Oh, don't give me that.
Who could miss that mug?
"You know who I am".
Come on, what will it be?
- Coke will be fine.
- Sure.
Why don't you smile, bud?
Be happy.
Let me show you a terrific trick.
Now, turn your head for just a minute, will you?
The American flag ought to be
worth a drink to you, buddy boy.
I was a veteran, too, you know.
All right, out, bub. The two of you.
You and your glass eye. Take it to moorings.
Make it up in half-mast. But blow.
High class.
It's a pleasure to have you, Chief.
When you come to Noomie's, you come to the right place.
And if any slob bothers you again, out.
Thanks.
Would you like something to eat, kid?
I'll send it out for hamper.
No, no, no, no, thanks.
Do you know what time it would be in Arizona?
About three hours early, ain't it? Why?
I wanted to call my folks.
We just got in today and...
I don't know, everything's been... kind of mixed up.
What's the number?
It's just Sacketown. It's near Phoenix.
- I'll get the phone.
- That's all right, I can...
I said I'll get it.
When the war's over, you can
buy me a box of candy, okay, Chief?
Where are you?
Where have you gone without me?
I thought you cared about me.
Where are you?
Where's my heart?
Where is the dream we started?
I can't believe we're parted.
It'll take an hour for them to get the folks.
They have to send the truck.
Noomie's babysitting service.
Who? Where?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, look.
Hold on. He'll be right there.
Hey, Chief. Hey, hey, Sleeping Beauty. Come on.
Your ma's on the phone.
I want to sleep.
Oh, come on now, boy. Now, that's no way to talk.
Boy, what a sack of potatoes I'm telling you.
Where's Mom?
On the phone.
Oh, mamma, mamma.
Hey, you know something? I feel good. Am I drunk?
Look, say hello.
- Hello.
- No, talk in here. It's your ma.
Hey, you know something?
I feel like Big Eagle flies around in my head.
You know that? I feel great. I feel great.
Yeah, well, good. Talk.
Hello, Ma. This is your son, Ira Hayde.
But don't I sound like me? It's Ira, your son.
What? What?
Will you say hello? It's your mom.
Oh, hello, Ma. How are you? How's Pop?
This is your son, Ira Hamilton Hayes.
Hey, how come you wasn't on Iwo?
Hello. This is a pal of Ira's.
Yeah, well, I'm sorry they took him away from the phone.
There's a big shindig on here. Your boy's a big deal now.
Listen, don't you worry now. Your boy is fine.
He'll call you tomorrow.
That's okay. You're welcome. Goodbye.
Ask her what I'm supposed to do. Ask her that.
Ask her what I'm supposed to do.
I did. She said for you to go home to bed.
Come on, I'll take you.
Ask her what I'm gonna do.
We're gonna sell war bonds. That's what we're gonna do.
And we are proud that the three survivors of the historic
flag raising are here to launch the seventh war loan drive.
Let me introduce these heroes to you.
The sixth man, Ira Hayes.
I'm glad to be here. Five bonds.
Which one were you, Mr. Hayes?
- The chief. An Indian brave...
- Oh, I'm gonna save you for last.
Who took the spirit of the tomahawk
to the very summit of that mountain.
A superb example of Indian courage.
The time has come to show our gratitude by deeds.
Not words alone.
We on the home front have been called to battle six times.
We must give as these heroes gave.
We must reach down into our
pockets as they reached into their hearts
and give, not till it hurts us,
but till it hurts the enemy.
Now, first, we have a surprise for you today.
Ladies and gentlemen, on my right...
are the mothers of the three
flag raisers who did not come back.
Mrs. Carl Sorensen.
First in America, first in our hearts, and first to speak,
the indomitable Indian private
first class Ira Hamilton Hayes.
I'm glad to be in your city.
Five bonds.
Where the hell are we anyway, Boston?
Chicago. That's where you are.
Soldiers' Field, Chicago.
And boy, you better shape up.
General Bridges is here on an inspection
tour, and he's just as liable to inspect you.
You're a great guy, Boyle. I like you. You know why?
You're terrific. You're just terrific.
Can't you pay for your own war without us?
Well, you need a sideshow?
- Ira!
Ira! Ira! Over here!
Army mate, second class John H.
Bradley, United States Navy.
Private first class Renee Gagnon,
United States Marine Corps.
And private first class Ira Hamilton, Chief Hayes.
In private Hayes, we see the
great fighting blood of the Indian,
merged with the invincible spirit
of the United States Marines.
You can't beat that for a combination.
They've already given us 14 gold watches.
14!
That great picture also captured
a moment of truth about America.
Six of our boys, all equally born,
all equally entitled to freedom,
all equally entitled to opportunity
and the pursuit of happiness.
Fighting side by side to preserve their precious heritage.
I'm entitled to 14 gold watches.
Who needs a buddy when I got 14 gold watches?
Get him out of here.
I want to see him first thing in the morning.
- Come on, chief, you're going back to the hotel.
- How come?
General's orders.
Are you gonna call Marshal me?
I wouldn't be surprised.
Oh, that's okay with me.
- Hey, I'm gonna make a speech.
- Not tonight, Joseph.
Ladies and gentlemen, I ain't no hero.
I only got in that picture because it was windy
and they couldn't raise the flag without me helping.
It's just on account of the wind and that's the truth.
It's just on account of the wind.
PFC Hayes reporting, sir.
Didn't you go through boot camp, Hayes?
You certainly distinguished yourself
and the Marine Corps last night.
Lucky for you that the press has enough respect
for the Corps not to have printed anything about it.
What the hell kind of a Marine are you?
I'm a good Marine, sir.
That was the general opinion before you went on this tour.
But it proves you can't always trust opinion, doesn't it?
Hayes.
Being a Marine means more than fighting well in combat.
Now, what's your problem? Let's have it.
All right.
What's the color of your uniform?
Marine green, sir.
What's the color of mine?
Marine green, sir.
Well, if something's eating you, do
you know of a better place to spill it?
Hayes, what's the matter with you? Come on, open up.
Sir, I'm glad my best...
I'm glad most of my buddies are
dead so they can't see what I'm doing.
- Just what do you think you are doing?
- Just nothing, sir.
Nothing?
You think raising $13 billion is nothing?
Who gave you the right to be the best judge of that?
Sir, I haven't got the stomach
to act like something I'm not.
Now, you can court-martial me. You
can put me in the brig for the rest of my life.
You can shoot me.
But I ain't gonna be a hypocrite no more. I just ain't.
Hayes, I'm... I'm cutting orders to transfer you.
Yes, sir?
You're going back to your outfit for combat duty.
Yes, sir.
Aye, aye, sir.
Now, one more thing.
Hayes, you're a public figure now.
Whether you like it or not, you
don't belong to yourself anymore.
As long as you remain in the Marine Corps,
you'll be protected against your fame.
But the day will come when
you'll have to deal with it alone.
Just bear it in mind.
Thank you, sir.
I bet your people'll be glad to have you home again.
Oh, hey.
Hi, Leonard.
But I'm Kenny.
I'm going to the other bed.
How come you weren't on the train?
We better be quiet now.
I cried when you didn't come.
What happened?
You know something, Kenny?
I must have slept in a hundred beds since I last saw you.
And this room's the only place
left in the whole world for me.
I'd like to lock myself up in
here and never go out no more.
Everybody here is so proud of you.
Some of the guys were saying that you're
the most famous Indian since Geronimo.
Even more famous than Jim Thorpe.
Oh, did you hear about Jay?
He's been elected chief of the tribe.
Yes, I read.
What's they got to say? They say anything about me?
No, not to me.
Tell me all about what happened on Iwo.
Forget that hero junk, Kenny.
All I am is your brother and I love you.
I don't want to hear no more about being famous.
Hello, Ira.
Hello.
Mom, turn off the light.
Please turn it off.
It's all finished now.
It's all over now.
Give us a smile, chief.
Pull the kids in a little closer.
Look at me, Lisa.
There you are.
Thank you, Mr. Hayes.
Mr. Hayes, we know you must be tired.
But could you sign this? We drove all the way from Tucson.
Mr. Hayes, please turn this way.
Now will you stand on your head?
Just look at the fanny.
Hi, Jay.
Hey.
Where have you been hiding, jerk pot?
You've been home three days and
you never even came to say hello.
Well, I've been catching up on my sleep.
You look-you look great.
Mom wrote me about your battlefield commission.
Ah, how about that Iwo deal?
And how about that bond tour?
What do you mean, how about it? What did you hear?
What did I hear?
Boy, every time I picked up
the Stars and Stripes, there was
old Ira just grinning away with
the President's arm around you.
You don't realize who you are, kid.
You're the greatest thing
that's ever happened to our tribe.
This is for a worthy cause, Hayes.
And we need you to kick this off.
I'm not very good at speech-making, so...
All you have to do is take a bow, say a few words.
You did that last week.
Well, you might even meet a few
of your old Marine Corps buddies.
I guess it'll be all right, okay.
Now you're talking.
A marvelous tablet with a flag-raising picture,
with you and five actors to play the part of your buddies.
Very realistic. $2.50 a week against
10% of the gross. What do you say?
Will you at least take my card? Think about it?
- You appeared for the Legion.
- My son is eating his supper. Please go away.
Well, I must say, you're terribly friendly.
Ira, can I see you for a minute?
Washington just turned us down again.
The Council wants to talk to you.
The Council took a vote, Ira. We want you to
go to Washington to talk to the Commissioner.
We'll pay all your transportation
and expenses out of the tribal fund.
Why me? I mean, it's a great honor,
but I'm not qualified to talk to them.
Ira's not qualified.
Have you got all the water you need?
- No.
Well, isn't it the same all over the reservation?
Every time new industries move into Phoenix, or
somebody starts a ranch, our water ration drops.
Every time we even mention digging wells,
the white farm block starts screaming
and Washington says no dice.
Listen, Ira, please. They can dig all
the wells they want without permission.
They grow wheat, and we grow cactus.
Jay is the real leader. He
knows how to talk to these people.
Jay, you really got things going for you.
I mean, you got things to be proud of.
This stuff isn't addressed to me.
Look, Ira Hayes. Ira Hayes. Ira Hayes.
Washington. Nebraska. Ireland. Africa.
You're not asking for a thing that isn't yours by rights.
All you want is the water they stole.
This is what we fought for, kid. You gotta do it, Ira.
Hello. May I please speak to the commissioner?
Ira Hayes. From Sakata. Ira Hayes. Thank you.
Hello? Mr. Harrington?
It's just that I'm surprised that you remember.
Oh, yes, I'm fine. Fine, yes. Thank you, sir. Tomorrow?
If you have to catch a plane at eleven, I understand.
Nine o'clock sharp. Yes, sir. I'll be there.
Yes, nine o'clock. I'll be on time. Thank you, mister...
Hey, the next time you bring me
a present, do me a favor, will you?
Bring me the dame that goes with it?
They've been razzing me about this robe.
I'm only pulling your leg. I'm nuts about it, no kidding.
So how did it go with Mr. Big Shot?
He remembered me all right, yes.
I see him tomorrow morning at nine o'clock.
Then you're home. What are your worries?
I never had to ask for a favor before. You should
have seen that building with all those big people.
Big, small. I tell you that you
all went to bed once upon a time.
And I swear, not one of them
has laid in a single thing since.
Cheers.
All you gotta do is you be yourself.
Oh, if my name didn't used to be smeared all
over the papers, they never would have sent me.
Noomie, I feel like such a phony.
I feel like I stole something and nobody has caught me yet.
So welcome to the human race.
Look, we all stole something,
but I ain't asking you and you ain't asking me.
You know, you shouldn't ought to be so deep.
All you have to do is you get born, you have a good time,
you go into that locker room and the
big coach calls for him on the game, right?
Right.
Well, I have to be going. I'll see you.
Okay. Let me know what happens, will you?
Sure.
Hey! What do you think you're going, meat-head?
Did I tell you to pull out?
Kylie!
What's the first word out of your mouth, girl?
Sir. Gee, am I glad to see you. How come you're here?
Oh, Kylie, I'm so glad to see you.
We'll drink our toast to the 7-0-1st.
You know, I must have thought
about you a million times, I swear.
People, I want you to meet the
idiotest boot I ever saw in my life.
Now you've seen him on the postal stand?
You've seen him in the newsroom?
I present to you Ira Hayes, papoose first class.
Corporal.
This one is Harris, this one is Legg, this one is Gillam.
Come on, sit down, sit down.
Are you still in the Marines?
Oh, sure. We're all stationed here in Washington.
They dust us off on honor guard whenever somebody dies.
You sure got it made.
Say, whatever happened to that kid?
You remember, the one I had on
your tail all the time. The General.
Sorensen.
Yeah, what a wiseacre he was.
But he was a good Marine. I had to make out.
Well, you know, sometimes I look at those platoon pictures
and I wonder just how many of those kids are still around.
That's the thing I hear about war.
Well, you have to admit it does a boy's character
a lot of good to go out and get himself killed.
- You're sick.
- You're about as funny as Dracula, boy.
Come on, Chief, quit. Come on.
Quit, Chief, quit.
You remember the day we taught you how to swim?
We'll drink a toast to the 701st.
All the way, 701. All the way.
All the way, 701. All the way.
You walk like a duck?
You waddle like a duck? Are you ducks?
Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
Can you talk like a duck?
Quack, quack, quack, quack.
Get out.
Quack, quack, quack.
Come on, Chief. Quit straggling.
Yes, sir.
Quack.
- Are you happy?
Yes, sir.
Do you love the Marine Corps?
Yes, sir.
Come on, Hayes.
Yes, sir.
Where are you?
Ira Hayes.
Ira Hayes.
Get over here, Hayes, there's someone wants to see you.
Hello, Ira.
Hey, did you come to get me out?
What time is it?
I've got a very important thing at nine o'clock.
It's two in the afternoon.
It's two?
Hey, look, you've got to get me out of here.
Hey, please don't do that.
You're still news, Ira. I'm sorry.
Come on, come on. Please be fair.
I don't understand.
I know the Hayes family all my life.
He was always a good boy.
Well, you sure picked a great time to go sour.
That's all we need. Another drunken Indian.
It's easy to throw stones, Jerry.
Even the paper doesn't call him that.
No? Well, the people in Phoenix are.
You give a guy a name, you
ask him to do something important.
It's a whole Indian cause back fifty years.
He's no hero. He's a damned disgrace.
I see that Ira was arrested again.
This time, Cincinnati.
That boy's gonna run out of cities.
And jail's too.
If he had to be born an Indian,
why did he have to be born a Pima?
Good afternoon, Mr. Hayes.
Good afternoon, Mr. Hayes.
Please give Jay the fourteen gold
watches that I got on the bond tour.
To pay back the money they gave me.
Maybe I get a job here.
And try to make up for disgracing my people
and making such a mess.
Last week, this veteran outfit found me.
And I got drunk at their big reunion.
And forgot to show up for work at the garage.
Everybody sure tries to be nice to me.
They keep bailing me out, but I just get in trouble again.
I even thought of changing my name.
But that don't seem right somehow.
My heart hurts when I think of you
and all your friends, knowing what I turned into.
I promise, I'm gonna try and make it different this time.
I got this good job here at the airport.
North Central Airlines announces
the departure of flight 106.
Now boarding at gate 2, for Green Bay,
Grand Rapids, Lansing, and Detroit.
All aboard, please.
Hello, Ira.
How are you?
I'm okay.
You're gonna mop right through that floor, kid.
Why don't you quit a minute and talk to me, huh?
I can hear you.
Why made you break down and
tell your mother where you were?
Ira, for crying out loud, what
are you trying to do to yourself?
Get off the mop. I've got to work.
This is no job for you.
Look, I sell my sweat. You sell yours.
What I do with it is my business.
Now get your foot off the mop.
I came to bring you home.
What for?
What have I got to go home for?
If you don't, you're gonna end up
on a slab with a tag around your toe.
Fine.
Do I have to draw you any more pictures?
Fine.
Yeah. That'd really be fine.
I know why you want to get me back
there, so don't give me any of that sincere bull.
You're gonna stick me in a hut and take away the booze.
When anybody asks, why, you're just
gonna tell them I'm dead and buried,
you don't have to draw me no pictures.
I'm not talking for the tribe, don't you know that?
They can take anything you dish out and a whole lot more.
But what happened to my friend?
You draw me a picture of that.
What happened to that great little Pima
kid who wanted to burn up the world?
He didn't come back from the war. He's gone.
I ain't been the same since they
tried to make me out something I'm not.
I can't do your errands. I can't talk to commissioners.
I can't go home. I can't look at you.
I can't do nothing because I ain't got the right no more.
Now... now just get away from here. Go on.
- Ira...
- Get away! I mean it!
I don't like you, big chief.
I don't like you or your damn
battlefield commission either.
I'm sorry I sent you to Washington.
I'm sorry.
I didn't know how you felt.
Ira, please... Just come back home.
Nobody will make you do anything you don't want.
You can't just disappear from the mind of men.
Even a judge wouldn't give you a sentence like that.
Goodbye, Jay.
Take care of yourself.
What have you got to say for yourself?
I don't mind telling you there's not much pleasure in this.
Look at you. A national hero.
If you had any shame, you'd straighten yourself out.
Now, I'm gonna give you a suspended sentence,
if you promise me, in the presence of that
flag, that you're never gonna do this again.
What about it, Hayes?
All right, take him away.
Ninety days on the house of correction.
Hi, Chief. Remember me? Sergeant Boyle.
Chief, sit down.
Okay.
I'm gonna read you a telegram I received.
Are you listening?
Kindly extend to Mr. Ira Hayes,
invitation to attend dedication ceremonies,
Marine Corps Memorial, Arlington
National Cemetery, 10 November.
Important impress on Hayes, his presence
extremely meaningful in this commemoration.
Signed Bridges, President Memorial Foundation.
They hope you accept it, Chief. So do I.
I got to stay here.
Forever? Don't you think the taxpayers
have something to say about that?
I know what will happen again.
There'll be big parties and drinking.
All that hero stuff.
I don't want to see Bradley or Gagnon.
You want them to look at your empty chair?
Then they'll know what kind of Marine you turned out to be.
Come on, Ira. Pull yourself together.
Mr. President, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen.
Our purpose today is a simple one.
To pay homage to our fallen Marine heroes
and to their comrades in arms from other services,
who in the campaigns of nearly 200 years
have suffered and died in the
cause of liberty and humanity.
In the profoundest sense, the heroes we honor
were engaged in building their own memorial,
not in temporal stone or bronze,
but in the timeless, boundless realm of the human spirit.
It is a statement to man's highest
hopes and greatest expectations.
The men depicted on this monument were real men.
Three are gone, and three are present here today.
It is not their act alone which we
memorialize, nor any single act.
It is not these men alone, nor any single man.
In this sense, they are but symbols which bespeak
the numberless acts of honor that went before.
Although we hail the fallen, we hail the living too.
For death is not the prerequisite for heroism.
Whether men fall or live, to be
there, to be willing, is to be heroic.
The five white boys who raised that flag were
willing men before they came to that mountain.
So they are symbols now of willing men.
The Indian boy who raised that flag was a willing man,
and he too is a symbol now of all the Indian boys
who stood the ground he stood,
willing, and therefore heroic.
Now and forever.
Mr. President, it is with these
thoughts that I have the honor
on behalf of the Marine Corps and the
Marine Corps War Memorial Foundation
to present this monument to
the people of the United States.
I promise I'll make it.
I promise myself.
I promise you.
I promise.
I promise.
I'll just run and check it over.
You go ahead down to the house.
All right.
Ira.
I came home.
Then it was like some kind of a miracle.
It was like God said, everything's okay now.
You know, this thing is just a symbol.
You don't have to carry it around in your guts no more.
It's out, it's not you.
So go on and be yourself.
It really is like a miracle. I mean it.
You know, I thought a lot about...
The time you came to see me, I
said some pretty crummy things.
Forget it. What else could you do?
Listen, you came back when you could, didn't you?
It's gonna be tough here, Jay.
People aren't gonna pass it off like you did.
But I promise you I'm really gonna get my butt in gear.
You know, I'm gonna work like there's no tomorrow.
You can even send me to Washington if you like.
Okay.
Now I'll promise you something.
You do those things and you forget about the people.
Because I guarantee that if you do, they're
gonna have just one thing to say about Ira Hayes.
He's a man to respect.
That's what they'll say.
You wait, you'll see.
Dear Sergeant Boyle,
Well, I guess you're surprised to hear from me.
But I've been wanting to say
thanks for all you've done for me.
On the bond tour and...
And making me go to the dedication when I was too ashamed.
I thought you might like to
know how hard I've been working.
I've really been pitching, pulling more than my load.
Doing anything I can to help anybody.
And making them know I mean it this time.
And I haven't took one drink since you got me out of jail.
The reason is that ever since
what happened on the bond tour,
I got this terrible pain inside me
that my own people are ashamed.
I gotta make it up to them for
all the shame I brought on them.
The one chance I have is this
nomination to the tribal council.
I know I could do some good for my
people if they would only nominate me.
I sure hope that they do, because
that'll mean that they forgive me.
If they only knew how much this means to me.
But I can't tell anybody about this.
They gotta do it themselves or don't mean anything.
Maybe the way I behaved I got no right to hope.
But I sure do, just the same.
Sergeant Boyle, they just gotta nominate me.
Because a guy's gotta belong somewhere
and now I know this is where I belong.
I'm gonna nominate you.
Shut up.
Why'd you say shut up?
You should talk crazy. If you say another word
about that, you can call me out as your brother.
Why?
Because people can make up their
own minds without no help from you.
I ain't interested in the council anyway.
What do you think you're doing,
keeping everybody awake in the middle of the night?
Noise... Hammer blowing horns.
Mrs. Jos told a visiting nurse that she'd
maybe lose her baby if she didn't get some sleep.
You're here then, chief, say something.
Do you know what time it is, Ira?
- No.
- It's 12.30. Why don't you go home now?
I heard Mr. Sinner was having trouble with his tractor,
so I just thought I'd fix it. That's all.
Every night. Hammer, hammer, hammer.
Okay, fine. Why don't you finish it tomorrow?
Okay.
Uncle, next time I'm in town, I'll buy you some earplugs.
Good night, Jake. Good night, uncle.
Some men make boast for speeches.
Some men do boast for work.
Ira's electioneering.
You will write your first choice, your second choice,
and your third choice for the people
you think will make good councilmen.
The three names that get written the most times,
they'll be the ones you will vote
for next week at election time.
Now, this is district number three.
Do you think Ira's got a chance?
What are you talking about?
Nomination, to the council.
He's had his belly full of fame.
He's not interested in that.
You people have been standing
out here in the cold a long time.
So your governor is gonna read you the
results before we post them at the schools.
Jay.
From district number one, Juan Perez, Joseph V.
Carlson, Franklin Galloway.
From district number two, John Grady,
David Peterson, Robin York.
From district number three, William Grant,
George Griffin, Jr., Donald Howard Miller.
- Ira!
- Don't worry about me, I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I don't need nobody.
No, Molly!
What's he doin' there?
Hey, Martin, what you doing there, huh?
All the way, 701, all the...
way... seven... oh... one...
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
Yes, sir!
Hey, come back here!
Sorensen...
Sor... Sorensen...
Well...
What am I doing?
Where am I going?
God, what happened to me?
Will you tell me that?
Please.
I promise. I promise. I promise. I promise.
I wa... I wanna go home.
I... wanna go home.
You're a damn drunk.
What were you ever good for?
Quack, quack, quack.
- Hey, look who's here!
- Hi, Jake.
I thought I'd have to walk. How are you, kid?
Fine. Here, let me take that.
You know, everybody around here
is pretty proud of you, Sergeant.
It was a breeze. Wait till I make General.
What's it like out there?
Cuckoo. You know what they did?
They rounded up all the Indian GIs and made us radio men.
'Cause they figured if we talked Indian to each
other, the enemy'd never break the code.
But they didn't figure that a Pima doesn't know what
the heck a Cherokee's talking about, or vice versa.
So now I'm back with my old outfit again.
What I mean, Jay, the guys in your outfit. Are they okay?
Oh, sometimes you've got to bite on a nail pretty hard,
but they're not too different from us.
Hello, Mr. Alvarez. Heard from your son?
- He's in Africa now. How are you?
- Great.
- Jay, I mean, are they friendly?
- Sure they're friendly.
Come on, now, tell me about here.
I want to know everything.
Jay, I just got to...
How's my wife? You seen her?
Oh, she's fine. She's gonna have
a baby. But I guess you know that.
I should. They doin' anything about water around here?
Well, all that stopped when I went into the army.
No, they're still talking. You know.
Talk. They'll talk themselves right
into the Museum of Natural History.
You ought to see the ditches in pale-faced
country, full enough to breed whales in.
And swimming pools? I bet I saw
a thousand flying over Phoenix.
Jay, I just got to show you this.
Oh, come on. You're just a kid.
But my parents have to sign. They don't know about it yet.
I'll be a son of a gun. Ira Hayes a Marine!
That's tremendous.
You're the first one I told.
Mom, hey!
They sent this Judas' coat to lead
our boys to the slaughter.
- Come on, Kenny, don't turn it off!
- Oh, you're clean enough!
- I was speaking.
- Boys, be quiet, uncle was speaking.
Hey, he's no relation. How come we call him uncle?
Mom, I have to talk to him.
It's a big sergeant now, Mr. Know-it-all.
A white man in Judas' coat to lead our boys to slaughter.
Uncle, are you talking about Jay Morago?
I'm talking of the fools who leave
the old folks to scratch the ground
while they follow the white man under the field of shame.
Shame? Uncle, but the war's for everybody.
You know only what a prairie dog knows.
How to lie in the sun and dream.
He knows what I taught him.
Ira's no dreamer. He's a good boy.
Did you teach him the history of our betrayals,
of the peaceful life we had here in the garden of the Lord,
where the earth was like butter
and the Gila River was full?
My people helped the white man,
fought with him against the Apaches.
My people fed his armies.
Uncle, don't you mean our people?
Mine! I'm a Pima. I don't know what you are.
They deeded us the waters of the river forever.
Year after year, they took it away until now,
we're like fish dying in a pool of dust.
Uncle, they promised us water. We'll get it. You'll see.
The white man is the enemy!
And those who fight his war are traitors to the tribe.
Uncle, if that's a traitor,
well, I guess I'm a traitor too.
I'm enlisting in the Marines. I'm supposed to go tomorrow.
Boy, that's great! Isn't that great?
All I need is for you and Pop to sign.
When you were four years old, you saw some man kill a cow.
You came home, and you looked at the meat in your dish.
And you got real sore at me.
You said, "Mother, I'm not gonna eat cow meat anymore."
"I'm only gonna eat meat that you buy from the store."
How are you gonna shoot someone, when
you couldn't even stand to watch them kill a cow?
They'll show me.
Who? The white man?
You hardly ever talk to one.
How do you know they're even gonna talk to you?
I'll listen when they talk to each other.
Smart boy.
You're gonna be in the same uniform.
That don't mean they're gonna be your friend.
For that, it's gonna be easy for you.
I'll do like Jay did. I'll bite on the nail.
He got along fine.
He says they're just like us.
Mom, I've got to have a clean pair of socks.
Mom, I'm not a baby anymore.
I know you're scared for me.
- I'm not scared.
But someday you're gonna have
to let me go, and I've got to do this.
Mom, I've got to be the best marine they ever saw.
Please, Mom.
Hey, Mom, you gonna let him go?
I know you're gonna be a good marine.
But don't forget to be a good Pima boy.
And go to church.
Mom, I won't miss once.
You people, get off the truck!
Off the truck!
Off the truck!
Align up four rows, like four rows of corn.
Get in there!
Face me! Quickly!
Turn around!
Hold up the hand you eat with.
That is your right hand.
You will find your right foot is on the
same side of your body as your right hand.
You will place your gear by your right foot.
Do it!
Heels together.
Toes pointed out at a 45-degree angle.
Palms in.
Palms along the seams of your trousers.
Shoulders back.
Chest out.
Chin in.
Your eyes looking at the whole
of the man's head in front of you.
You will live this way from now on.
Your platoon number is 7-0-1.
I am Sergeant Kiley, your drill instructor.
I have been watching you blobs fall
through your nostrils for the past two minutes.
You are gonna learn something about discipline.
Now, I'm not your mommy.
Your mom is not here to protect you or to
pick up after you or to kiss it where it hurts.
You treat me like you do your
momma and you wish you were dead.
You got a name, girl?
Sorensen, sir.
Best man on the campus at military school?
Yes, sir.
You know, I did not give the command "about face".
I did not give the command "attention", but
you did those things anyway, didn't you?
Yes, sir.
And you did them perfectly too, didn't you?
I think so, sir.
You think too much, General.
From here on out, you have nothing
between your ears except a blood clot.
And the only one that thinks is me. Is that clear?
Yes, sir.
What are you, grinning and cow-eyed? You in love with me?
No.
No, sir.
No, sir.
How many scalps you got in your pocket?
None, sir. I'm a Pima Indian, sir. We don't do that, sir.
You just think I'm about the
funnest thing you ever saw, don't you?
No, sir.
Are you as happy as a duck? Can you quack like a duck?
Yes, sir.
Well, just don't say yes. Let me see you do it.
Get out there and squat down
and put your hands on your head.
Ah, let's hear it.
Quack, quack, quack.
Well, let's see you waddle like a duck. Back and forth.
Quack, quack, quack.
Keep waddling and keep quacking
until that idiot grin goes away.
That will be the last grin out of any of you.
If anybody thinks that's funny, I'll visit his grave.
Because that's where you all end up if
you think there's anything funny about war.
Now, pick up your gear.
You too, Chief.
When I say so, you will move
into that building as fast as you can.
Now, go! Go!
You regular old cuddle bunny.
Get out of my sight, you meathead!
Yes, sir!
All right, you strip queens, finish up.
You will scrub those slimy bodies and
remove all dirt, grease and animal life.
When you come out, you will be sweet-smelling and newborn.
Because that's what's happening to you, meathead.
Why are you bleeding, house mouse?
Sir, I cut myself shaving.
Did I tell you to bleed?
No, sir.
Then stop.
Oh, Chief, that water's not gonna hurt you.
Don't you ever bathe?
Dear parents and brothers,
Well, here I am in boot camp.
Just about the first thing they did was give us a shower.
Hot water, cold water, or both mixed together.
Dad, I bet what I used on me alone,
you could irrigate a whole cotton crop.
My drill instructor is a great man, and he sure likes me.
He even calls me Chief.
You should hear the bull sessions we have.
And I'm always in them.
One of the gang.
I'm finding real good buddies here.
It sure is great.
You will swim the width of the pool five times.
When I say "On your marks, go",
you will jump into the water and you will go.
Is that clear?
Yes, sir!
Well, let's see how you do it.
On your marks.
- But, sir...
Go!
Take him out!
Hey, hey, General, over here.
Grab that guy, General.
Why didn't you tell me you can't swim?
You didn't ask me, sir.
You will get back into the water and you will learn.
Esther Williams here will teach you.
Because when I ordered Esther Williams to jump,
she decided to die.
Esther Williams will teach you
how to swim better than she does.
Won't you?
Yes, sir!
Now, get in the water.
Yes, sir.
Anymore of you goody-birds didn't speak up,
you better do it now.
You know how to do anything?
I'm sorry.
All right, all right.
Now, look, let's learn how to make some bubbles, huh?
Now, watch me breathe, right?
Right.
Like this?
No, no, no.
Like this, like this.
That's right.
You got that?
Dear parents and brothers,
The most popular guy in my platoon is teaching me to swim.
Sorensen!
His name is Sorensen and he's really swell to me.
Come back here. Come on.
Breathe in, that's it.
All the way!
All the way!
All the way!
All the way, 701! All the way!
All the way, 701! All the way!
All the way, 701! All the way!
Well, don't just stand there, do something,
you'll get out of the pot.
I want to lose that one.
You're not gonna marry that type. Let's go, let's go!
Hey, General!
Your papoose can't get over the wall.
Yes, sir!
Go!
Go!
Go!
Yoooo!
Attack!
Withdraw!
Dear parents and brothers,
when you wrote me how Jay Morago
got a battlefield commission,
it sure made me proud to be a Pima.
One, sir!
Two, sir!
One, sir!
Two, sir!
You sound like a bunch of old ladies.
Well, I'm making the guys know a Pima
Indian makes a real gung-ho marine, too.
Us Pimas are doing pretty good.
What are you doing, pitching pebbles?
Yep.
I bet you're sad about losing our tigers tomorrow.
Easy come, easy go.
You sure rode this bunch, man!
How's their discipline now?
They're, uh... cleaning equipment.
How's your discipline?
Fine, sir!
Do you love the marine?
Yes, sir!
It sure makes me sad to think boot camp is over.
I'm gonna miss all this, but my
life belongs to the marines now.
My buddies are getting ready to
go into San Diego on our first liberty,
and they invited me to go with them.
Now, come on, come on, you guys.
Let's get weaving before the
Navy takes all the goodies, huh?
I'm ready.
Take the part, house mouse.
I'll be stepping on your heel.
See you, chief.
Hey, where are you guys going? What are you gonna do?
Oh, I don't know, we... We got some plans.
- Let's go!
- Hey, come on, comin'!
Hey, wait a minute!
Be seein' you, chief.
I guess we'll catch a show or something.
But whatever we do, we'll be together,
as this is the only chance we'll have to celebrate
before some of us are split up.
Attention!
Relax, tiger, just checking.
Aye, aye, sir.
Why don't you go on time with your buddies?
I thought I'd finish this letter, sir.
Okay, chief.
Carry on.
Aye, aye, sir.
Chief, over here!
Come on!
Welcome, old chief, from the great green grass in Limpopo.
Grab a chair and grab a pow-wow.
Sin is flowing free.
Yeah, let's go.
Oh, he's lost. They're playing his song, you know?
I'd like you to meet Lucy the Moose.
- Hi.
All right, everybody, listen.
House mouse is gonna do it alone this time.
Buy the numbers.
- All right.
- All right.
- Are you ready?
- Ready.
One.
One, sir.
Two.
Two, sir.
Three.
Three, sir.
Go, go, go.
All the way, sir.
701, all the way, 701.
Come on, honey, dance with me.
I don't know how.
Oh, but it's easy. Let me teach you.
I'm afraid I'll get to like it.
Well, well, well, papoose.
Hi, Sorenson.
Hey, any of these knuckleheads order your drink?
No, no, but it's okay.
Hey, Tyre! Tyre, come on.
Drinks for my foster child here, let's go.
No, it's all right. I'm just happy
just to sit here and watch. It's fine.
Well, then flee!
No one stays and doesn't share the cup, right?
Anyway, it's against the law to sell an Indian liquor.
If you're good enough to be a marine,
you're damn well good enough to have a drink.
Now, where's the pig that's serving this do? Hey!
Oi, soy, piggy piggy piggy!
Hey! Oi, oi!
- I'm right here.
Now, you will bring another round for all personnel.
You will bring three for my friend here.
You will bring him what you bring me, bourbon and coke.
And some pot pot!
Now, go! Get out of my sight!
Go, go, go!
Go, go, go!
Yes, sir.
All right, now, wait.
We gotta find out what he's gonna drink to.
The floor is open for suggestions.
The Pocahontas.
To the Indian.
And to the Marines! You have to drink to that, right?
Right!
Now, I think what we should do right here is
sit here and count the polka dots on polka dots.
By the numbers.
And one, and... wait a minute.
Wait a minute. Where are you going?
I'll be back. I'll be back in a minute.
No, look. We're gonna have a drink.
I know. I've gotta go.
You know where they...
Oh, yeah. It's at the end of the bar.
End of the bar on your left there, see?
Right on the left. Hey! Two minutes!
Now, go ahead.
- Right.
Right!
All right, now, smile.
I can't smile. I want one serious.
Just a little smile. Come on. Natural.
It'll make your mama happy.
Donald!
Hey, I've been looking for you.
Here papoose, take off without his bottle.
Papoose thought he would.
Little Papoose, no like him drink up toast to Marine Corps.
James, James, James.
Uh, uh, Sorensen, I never had a drink.
I'm afraid what would happen. That's the truth.
Yeah, we'll ask him once more.
Yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
It's just half a bottle, you know?
Let's go, to the Marine Corps, papoose.
To the Marine Corps.
Yeah!
All right, well... One drink to the Marines.
Get out of my way!
It's the thought that counts.
"It's the thought that counts."
Isn't that cute?
Come on! Come on!
All the way!
All right, just come on.
All right, just come on.
I'm sorry.
I swear to God, I'm sorry.
So am I.
Hey, let's all go have a drink.
You guys go on ahead if you want to.
You get me home.
Me?
Yes.
Yes, I'll... I'll take him.
Cockadoodle-doo!
Where is everybody?
What are we doing here?
I didn't want to take you back the way you was, so...
I let you sleep it off.
Who's the papoose now, huh?
Hey!
You got a weed?
You sure do look a mess.
So do you.
You just sit here all night?
I like to look at water.
You talk a lot about water.
We don't have much at home.
But someday, when the war is over, me and
some of the boys, we're gonna try to get us some.
I never heard of a Pima till I met you.
That's the way it goes.
About the only ones you ever heard of were
the Apache, because they raised all the hell.
We never spilled a drop of white man's blood.
Are you kidding?
You know something?
Everything.
You're the first white man that ever was my friend.
You're the first Indian that ever was mine.
If you're about to kiss me, Banjo-butt,
I can tell you you're the wrong type.
Dear parents and brothers, dear everybody who is alive.
When you're in a war, you're dead already.
And the reason you fight is to come back to life.
I wonder how it would look if you could see it all at once.
A million ships.
Half the young men in the world.
Sometimes I can't believe this is me.
But that I'm here.
The sand on Iwo Jima tastes like sulfur.
That's all you know.
What things taste like, or what
you can see under your helmet.
There's not millions of anything.
Only me and Sorenson.
Now, what are you doing out on a day like this?
Ain't you got no sense?
Let's dig him a...
Keep your head down, crab.
Somebody just die?
I suppose.
The two greatest things that can happen
are when you're born and when you die.
When you're born, you're with someone.
I mean, you're... with your mother.
But when you die...
See, you never know when it'll happen, and...
you could be with nobody.
You know what I mean?
I heard the last thing most
people say when they die is, mama.
Isn't that amazing?
I mean, even guys 80 years old whose
mothers have been dead for ages, even them.
It's like...
like nothing's happened in all that time.
It's all they think of.
At least if you die here...
you die with somebody.
I mean...
you die with your friends.
You sleep closer than you ever did before.
And you make yourself breathe
in time with the other person.
Because it makes you know that
there's somebody else in the world.
Diamond, this is Diamond Five. Do you read me, over?
How's your company doing?
We lost half the guys we came with.
Diamond, this is Diamond Five. Do you read me, over?
We got to have some more muscle on the end of this fight.
Hey, get off your tails, you guys.
Give us a hand with this thing.
We'll put a bigger one up here so everyone can see it.
Come on, Chief, you two.
- Am I in your way?
- No, you're all right.
I sure hate to have my picture taken.
They always ask you to smile, and I never count them.
Say, chief.
One, two, three.
Did you get it?
Yeah, but I wish I could have seen their faces.
Hey, Sarge.
Boy...
That's something.
Look at that.
Ain't that something?
Did anyone identify the man who
rode Washington across the Delaware?
Did they identify the man in the Spirit of '76?
These things are symbols, and
the boys in the picture are symbols.
They're fighting men. They're not salesmen.
General Bridges,
the president has gone to the
people for money six times now.
Six war loan drives, and each time
we've had to find a bigger gimmick.
The public just won't shell out any more
money without getting some kind of a show.
I wonder if you realize just how much
excitement this picture has caused.
And you want me to pull six riflemen off of Iwo for a show?
Maybe you haven't seen our casualty list.
Don't you realize there's a hell
of a scrap going on in that island?
General, believe me, we understand.
This is a directive from the White House, sir.
They want them here, and they want them now.
Take cover, men!
Take cover!
It's rough. My God.
Where are they coming from?
We'll make it on the next try.
I bet you we're up there before it's dark.
Hey, Sorensen!
Please.
Hey, you guys!
Hotel back to the C.P. There's an urgent message for you.
What message?
I don't know. Get going!
All right, Captain, good luck.
Colonel, that was Easy Company.
Hayes should be here any second.
Sorenson's dead.
That means you only have three men left, Sergeant Boyle.
Three out of your original six.
Yes, sir. Gagnon, Hayes, and the Navy corpsman.
I thought Bradley was killed.
No, he's back at his feet again.
We'll pick him up at the hospital on Guam.
Sir! B.F.C. Hayes reporting C.P. as ordered, sir.
That is Hayes.
Yes, sir!
You've been pulled off the line to go back to Washington.
They want you matter in that flag-raising picture
to head up to 7th Wharvon Drive back there.
You proceed by water transportation to Guam with Gagnon
and your conducting officer, Sergeant Everett Boyle.
Hello, Hayes.
Sir?
That was the urgent message?
Bradley will join you there.
You will then proceed by military
air transport to Washington.
And went from Committee to the Senate floor.
There was another item on the Senate agenda today.
The three survivors of the Iwo Jima flag-raising
who arrived in the Capitol this morning
were given a hero's welcome
when the entire Senate rose for a standing ovation.
Later, the President took time out from a busy day
to meet them in his White House office.
The Pima Indian boy, Ira Hayes,
probably the greatest Indian hero since Jim Thorpe,
was the focus of...
Hey, everybody's waiting for you in the dining room.
What are you doing?
I was getting a little shut-eye.
Well, let's go. We ordered you a steak.
I ain't hungry.
Hey, you're a front page in the evening papers.
Take a look.
Oh.
Why don't you guys go ahead and start without me?
Boy, I thought all you front-line troops ever dreamed of
was white tablecloths and pretty waitresses and milk.
No, I don't want that.
What's wrong, Chief? What's bothering you?
Nothing. Nothing. I'm doing fine.
Level with me. What are you hiding from?
It's a detail, Hayes.
When you're on mess duty you scrub pots.
Now, maybe you don't like it, but you scrub 'em.
When you're on a bond tour, you smile and answer questions.
You take it all in stride.
I never was much of a talker.
And you were never a hero either.
So there's a first time for everything.
I'm no hero. I'm nothing.
All the heroes are dead.
Look, don't make me feel like I'm asking you to rob a bank.
Boyle, you're a nice guy, and I appreciate
everything you've done for me, but...
Listen, Ira, people make their heroes. Don't you know that?
They make them when they need something to believe in.
They made you. Now, you've got to play along.
I'm no hypocrite.
My mother told me you're what God made you, not people.
Your mother wasn't on Iwo Jima,
for crying out loud. Now, was she?
Come on, now.
I like you. I respect you.
But don't let yourself get all our stuff by this thing.
If you get hungry, come on down.
I've got to go or my steak will be cremated.
And Ira...
I wouldn't go spreading it around
about all the heroes being dead.
Nobody's gonna believe it.
That's not what they want to hear.
And they're gonna end up hating your guts.
You've got to help me, Sarge.
You gotta help me, Boyle.
That's what I'm here for.
Ira!
What's a celebrity like you doing on the loose?
Come on over here. I want to shake that hand.
We're taking you to a fabulous party,
and everybody's gonna drool.
- Can you see Cynthia's face when he walks into...
- You heard the ladies. Come on, Ira.
- No, excuse me. Thank you just the same, but...
- Come on!
I'm meeting a buddy of mine down... right here.
- So bring him along. Who's gonna count?
- Just one little drink.
No, thank you just the same. Thank you.
Come on...
Ah, let's go.
Hooray.
Two words. Hooray.
How.
What'll it be?
Coke will be fine.
I'm buying, Chief. Scotch, bourbon, anything.
It's on the house.
You know who I am, too?
Oh, don't give me that.
Who could miss that mug?
"You know who I am".
Come on, what will it be?
- Coke will be fine.
- Sure.
Why don't you smile, bud?
Be happy.
Let me show you a terrific trick.
Now, turn your head for just a minute, will you?
The American flag ought to be
worth a drink to you, buddy boy.
I was a veteran, too, you know.
All right, out, bub. The two of you.
You and your glass eye. Take it to moorings.
Make it up in half-mast. But blow.
High class.
It's a pleasure to have you, Chief.
When you come to Noomie's, you come to the right place.
And if any slob bothers you again, out.
Thanks.
Would you like something to eat, kid?
I'll send it out for hamper.
No, no, no, no, thanks.
Do you know what time it would be in Arizona?
About three hours early, ain't it? Why?
I wanted to call my folks.
We just got in today and...
I don't know, everything's been... kind of mixed up.
What's the number?
It's just Sacketown. It's near Phoenix.
- I'll get the phone.
- That's all right, I can...
I said I'll get it.
When the war's over, you can
buy me a box of candy, okay, Chief?
Where are you?
Where have you gone without me?
I thought you cared about me.
Where are you?
Where's my heart?
Where is the dream we started?
I can't believe we're parted.
It'll take an hour for them to get the folks.
They have to send the truck.
Noomie's babysitting service.
Who? Where?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, look.
Hold on. He'll be right there.
Hey, Chief. Hey, hey, Sleeping Beauty. Come on.
Your ma's on the phone.
I want to sleep.
Oh, come on now, boy. Now, that's no way to talk.
Boy, what a sack of potatoes I'm telling you.
Where's Mom?
On the phone.
Oh, mamma, mamma.
Hey, you know something? I feel good. Am I drunk?
Look, say hello.
- Hello.
- No, talk in here. It's your ma.
Hey, you know something?
I feel like Big Eagle flies around in my head.
You know that? I feel great. I feel great.
Yeah, well, good. Talk.
Hello, Ma. This is your son, Ira Hayde.
But don't I sound like me? It's Ira, your son.
What? What?
Will you say hello? It's your mom.
Oh, hello, Ma. How are you? How's Pop?
This is your son, Ira Hamilton Hayes.
Hey, how come you wasn't on Iwo?
Hello. This is a pal of Ira's.
Yeah, well, I'm sorry they took him away from the phone.
There's a big shindig on here. Your boy's a big deal now.
Listen, don't you worry now. Your boy is fine.
He'll call you tomorrow.
That's okay. You're welcome. Goodbye.
Ask her what I'm supposed to do. Ask her that.
Ask her what I'm supposed to do.
I did. She said for you to go home to bed.
Come on, I'll take you.
Ask her what I'm gonna do.
We're gonna sell war bonds. That's what we're gonna do.
And we are proud that the three survivors of the historic
flag raising are here to launch the seventh war loan drive.
Let me introduce these heroes to you.
The sixth man, Ira Hayes.
I'm glad to be here. Five bonds.
Which one were you, Mr. Hayes?
- The chief. An Indian brave...
- Oh, I'm gonna save you for last.
Who took the spirit of the tomahawk
to the very summit of that mountain.
A superb example of Indian courage.
The time has come to show our gratitude by deeds.
Not words alone.
We on the home front have been called to battle six times.
We must give as these heroes gave.
We must reach down into our
pockets as they reached into their hearts
and give, not till it hurts us,
but till it hurts the enemy.
Now, first, we have a surprise for you today.
Ladies and gentlemen, on my right...
are the mothers of the three
flag raisers who did not come back.
Mrs. Carl Sorensen.
First in America, first in our hearts, and first to speak,
the indomitable Indian private
first class Ira Hamilton Hayes.
I'm glad to be in your city.
Five bonds.
Where the hell are we anyway, Boston?
Chicago. That's where you are.
Soldiers' Field, Chicago.
And boy, you better shape up.
General Bridges is here on an inspection
tour, and he's just as liable to inspect you.
You're a great guy, Boyle. I like you. You know why?
You're terrific. You're just terrific.
Can't you pay for your own war without us?
Well, you need a sideshow?
- Ira!
Ira! Ira! Over here!
Army mate, second class John H.
Bradley, United States Navy.
Private first class Renee Gagnon,
United States Marine Corps.
And private first class Ira Hamilton, Chief Hayes.
In private Hayes, we see the
great fighting blood of the Indian,
merged with the invincible spirit
of the United States Marines.
You can't beat that for a combination.
They've already given us 14 gold watches.
14!
That great picture also captured
a moment of truth about America.
Six of our boys, all equally born,
all equally entitled to freedom,
all equally entitled to opportunity
and the pursuit of happiness.
Fighting side by side to preserve their precious heritage.
I'm entitled to 14 gold watches.
Who needs a buddy when I got 14 gold watches?
Get him out of here.
I want to see him first thing in the morning.
- Come on, chief, you're going back to the hotel.
- How come?
General's orders.
Are you gonna call Marshal me?
I wouldn't be surprised.
Oh, that's okay with me.
- Hey, I'm gonna make a speech.
- Not tonight, Joseph.
Ladies and gentlemen, I ain't no hero.
I only got in that picture because it was windy
and they couldn't raise the flag without me helping.
It's just on account of the wind and that's the truth.
It's just on account of the wind.
PFC Hayes reporting, sir.
Didn't you go through boot camp, Hayes?
You certainly distinguished yourself
and the Marine Corps last night.
Lucky for you that the press has enough respect
for the Corps not to have printed anything about it.
What the hell kind of a Marine are you?
I'm a good Marine, sir.
That was the general opinion before you went on this tour.
But it proves you can't always trust opinion, doesn't it?
Hayes.
Being a Marine means more than fighting well in combat.
Now, what's your problem? Let's have it.
All right.
What's the color of your uniform?
Marine green, sir.
What's the color of mine?
Marine green, sir.
Well, if something's eating you, do
you know of a better place to spill it?
Hayes, what's the matter with you? Come on, open up.
Sir, I'm glad my best...
I'm glad most of my buddies are
dead so they can't see what I'm doing.
- Just what do you think you are doing?
- Just nothing, sir.
Nothing?
You think raising $13 billion is nothing?
Who gave you the right to be the best judge of that?
Sir, I haven't got the stomach
to act like something I'm not.
Now, you can court-martial me. You
can put me in the brig for the rest of my life.
You can shoot me.
But I ain't gonna be a hypocrite no more. I just ain't.
Hayes, I'm... I'm cutting orders to transfer you.
Yes, sir?
You're going back to your outfit for combat duty.
Yes, sir.
Aye, aye, sir.
Now, one more thing.
Hayes, you're a public figure now.
Whether you like it or not, you
don't belong to yourself anymore.
As long as you remain in the Marine Corps,
you'll be protected against your fame.
But the day will come when
you'll have to deal with it alone.
Just bear it in mind.
Thank you, sir.
I bet your people'll be glad to have you home again.
Oh, hey.
Hi, Leonard.
But I'm Kenny.
I'm going to the other bed.
How come you weren't on the train?
We better be quiet now.
I cried when you didn't come.
What happened?
You know something, Kenny?
I must have slept in a hundred beds since I last saw you.
And this room's the only place
left in the whole world for me.
I'd like to lock myself up in
here and never go out no more.
Everybody here is so proud of you.
Some of the guys were saying that you're
the most famous Indian since Geronimo.
Even more famous than Jim Thorpe.
Oh, did you hear about Jay?
He's been elected chief of the tribe.
Yes, I read.
What's they got to say? They say anything about me?
No, not to me.
Tell me all about what happened on Iwo.
Forget that hero junk, Kenny.
All I am is your brother and I love you.
I don't want to hear no more about being famous.
Hello, Ira.
Hello.
Mom, turn off the light.
Please turn it off.
It's all finished now.
It's all over now.
Give us a smile, chief.
Pull the kids in a little closer.
Look at me, Lisa.
There you are.
Thank you, Mr. Hayes.
Mr. Hayes, we know you must be tired.
But could you sign this? We drove all the way from Tucson.
Mr. Hayes, please turn this way.
Now will you stand on your head?
Just look at the fanny.
Hi, Jay.
Hey.
Where have you been hiding, jerk pot?
You've been home three days and
you never even came to say hello.
Well, I've been catching up on my sleep.
You look-you look great.
Mom wrote me about your battlefield commission.
Ah, how about that Iwo deal?
And how about that bond tour?
What do you mean, how about it? What did you hear?
What did I hear?
Boy, every time I picked up
the Stars and Stripes, there was
old Ira just grinning away with
the President's arm around you.
You don't realize who you are, kid.
You're the greatest thing
that's ever happened to our tribe.
This is for a worthy cause, Hayes.
And we need you to kick this off.
I'm not very good at speech-making, so...
All you have to do is take a bow, say a few words.
You did that last week.
Well, you might even meet a few
of your old Marine Corps buddies.
I guess it'll be all right, okay.
Now you're talking.
A marvelous tablet with a flag-raising picture,
with you and five actors to play the part of your buddies.
Very realistic. $2.50 a week against
10% of the gross. What do you say?
Will you at least take my card? Think about it?
- You appeared for the Legion.
- My son is eating his supper. Please go away.
Well, I must say, you're terribly friendly.
Ira, can I see you for a minute?
Washington just turned us down again.
The Council wants to talk to you.
The Council took a vote, Ira. We want you to
go to Washington to talk to the Commissioner.
We'll pay all your transportation
and expenses out of the tribal fund.
Why me? I mean, it's a great honor,
but I'm not qualified to talk to them.
Ira's not qualified.
Have you got all the water you need?
- No.
Well, isn't it the same all over the reservation?
Every time new industries move into Phoenix, or
somebody starts a ranch, our water ration drops.
Every time we even mention digging wells,
the white farm block starts screaming
and Washington says no dice.
Listen, Ira, please. They can dig all
the wells they want without permission.
They grow wheat, and we grow cactus.
Jay is the real leader. He
knows how to talk to these people.
Jay, you really got things going for you.
I mean, you got things to be proud of.
This stuff isn't addressed to me.
Look, Ira Hayes. Ira Hayes. Ira Hayes.
Washington. Nebraska. Ireland. Africa.
You're not asking for a thing that isn't yours by rights.
All you want is the water they stole.
This is what we fought for, kid. You gotta do it, Ira.
Hello. May I please speak to the commissioner?
Ira Hayes. From Sakata. Ira Hayes. Thank you.
Hello? Mr. Harrington?
It's just that I'm surprised that you remember.
Oh, yes, I'm fine. Fine, yes. Thank you, sir. Tomorrow?
If you have to catch a plane at eleven, I understand.
Nine o'clock sharp. Yes, sir. I'll be there.
Yes, nine o'clock. I'll be on time. Thank you, mister...
Hey, the next time you bring me
a present, do me a favor, will you?
Bring me the dame that goes with it?
They've been razzing me about this robe.
I'm only pulling your leg. I'm nuts about it, no kidding.
So how did it go with Mr. Big Shot?
He remembered me all right, yes.
I see him tomorrow morning at nine o'clock.
Then you're home. What are your worries?
I never had to ask for a favor before. You should
have seen that building with all those big people.
Big, small. I tell you that you
all went to bed once upon a time.
And I swear, not one of them
has laid in a single thing since.
Cheers.
All you gotta do is you be yourself.
Oh, if my name didn't used to be smeared all
over the papers, they never would have sent me.
Noomie, I feel like such a phony.
I feel like I stole something and nobody has caught me yet.
So welcome to the human race.
Look, we all stole something,
but I ain't asking you and you ain't asking me.
You know, you shouldn't ought to be so deep.
All you have to do is you get born, you have a good time,
you go into that locker room and the
big coach calls for him on the game, right?
Right.
Well, I have to be going. I'll see you.
Okay. Let me know what happens, will you?
Sure.
Hey! What do you think you're going, meat-head?
Did I tell you to pull out?
Kylie!
What's the first word out of your mouth, girl?
Sir. Gee, am I glad to see you. How come you're here?
Oh, Kylie, I'm so glad to see you.
We'll drink our toast to the 7-0-1st.
You know, I must have thought
about you a million times, I swear.
People, I want you to meet the
idiotest boot I ever saw in my life.
Now you've seen him on the postal stand?
You've seen him in the newsroom?
I present to you Ira Hayes, papoose first class.
Corporal.
This one is Harris, this one is Legg, this one is Gillam.
Come on, sit down, sit down.
Are you still in the Marines?
Oh, sure. We're all stationed here in Washington.
They dust us off on honor guard whenever somebody dies.
You sure got it made.
Say, whatever happened to that kid?
You remember, the one I had on
your tail all the time. The General.
Sorensen.
Yeah, what a wiseacre he was.
But he was a good Marine. I had to make out.
Well, you know, sometimes I look at those platoon pictures
and I wonder just how many of those kids are still around.
That's the thing I hear about war.
Well, you have to admit it does a boy's character
a lot of good to go out and get himself killed.
- You're sick.
- You're about as funny as Dracula, boy.
Come on, Chief, quit. Come on.
Quit, Chief, quit.
You remember the day we taught you how to swim?
We'll drink a toast to the 701st.
All the way, 701. All the way.
All the way, 701. All the way.
You walk like a duck?
You waddle like a duck? Are you ducks?
Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
Can you talk like a duck?
Quack, quack, quack, quack.
Get out.
Quack, quack, quack.
Come on, Chief. Quit straggling.
Yes, sir.
Quack.
- Are you happy?
Yes, sir.
Do you love the Marine Corps?
Yes, sir.
Come on, Hayes.
Yes, sir.
Where are you?
Ira Hayes.
Ira Hayes.
Get over here, Hayes, there's someone wants to see you.
Hello, Ira.
Hey, did you come to get me out?
What time is it?
I've got a very important thing at nine o'clock.
It's two in the afternoon.
It's two?
Hey, look, you've got to get me out of here.
Hey, please don't do that.
You're still news, Ira. I'm sorry.
Come on, come on. Please be fair.
I don't understand.
I know the Hayes family all my life.
He was always a good boy.
Well, you sure picked a great time to go sour.
That's all we need. Another drunken Indian.
It's easy to throw stones, Jerry.
Even the paper doesn't call him that.
No? Well, the people in Phoenix are.
You give a guy a name, you
ask him to do something important.
It's a whole Indian cause back fifty years.
He's no hero. He's a damned disgrace.
I see that Ira was arrested again.
This time, Cincinnati.
That boy's gonna run out of cities.
And jail's too.
If he had to be born an Indian,
why did he have to be born a Pima?
Good afternoon, Mr. Hayes.
Good afternoon, Mr. Hayes.
Please give Jay the fourteen gold
watches that I got on the bond tour.
To pay back the money they gave me.
Maybe I get a job here.
And try to make up for disgracing my people
and making such a mess.
Last week, this veteran outfit found me.
And I got drunk at their big reunion.
And forgot to show up for work at the garage.
Everybody sure tries to be nice to me.
They keep bailing me out, but I just get in trouble again.
I even thought of changing my name.
But that don't seem right somehow.
My heart hurts when I think of you
and all your friends, knowing what I turned into.
I promise, I'm gonna try and make it different this time.
I got this good job here at the airport.
North Central Airlines announces
the departure of flight 106.
Now boarding at gate 2, for Green Bay,
Grand Rapids, Lansing, and Detroit.
All aboard, please.
Hello, Ira.
How are you?
I'm okay.
You're gonna mop right through that floor, kid.
Why don't you quit a minute and talk to me, huh?
I can hear you.
Why made you break down and
tell your mother where you were?
Ira, for crying out loud, what
are you trying to do to yourself?
Get off the mop. I've got to work.
This is no job for you.
Look, I sell my sweat. You sell yours.
What I do with it is my business.
Now get your foot off the mop.
I came to bring you home.
What for?
What have I got to go home for?
If you don't, you're gonna end up
on a slab with a tag around your toe.
Fine.
Do I have to draw you any more pictures?
Fine.
Yeah. That'd really be fine.
I know why you want to get me back
there, so don't give me any of that sincere bull.
You're gonna stick me in a hut and take away the booze.
When anybody asks, why, you're just
gonna tell them I'm dead and buried,
you don't have to draw me no pictures.
I'm not talking for the tribe, don't you know that?
They can take anything you dish out and a whole lot more.
But what happened to my friend?
You draw me a picture of that.
What happened to that great little Pima
kid who wanted to burn up the world?
He didn't come back from the war. He's gone.
I ain't been the same since they
tried to make me out something I'm not.
I can't do your errands. I can't talk to commissioners.
I can't go home. I can't look at you.
I can't do nothing because I ain't got the right no more.
Now... now just get away from here. Go on.
- Ira...
- Get away! I mean it!
I don't like you, big chief.
I don't like you or your damn
battlefield commission either.
I'm sorry I sent you to Washington.
I'm sorry.
I didn't know how you felt.
Ira, please... Just come back home.
Nobody will make you do anything you don't want.
You can't just disappear from the mind of men.
Even a judge wouldn't give you a sentence like that.
Goodbye, Jay.
Take care of yourself.
What have you got to say for yourself?
I don't mind telling you there's not much pleasure in this.
Look at you. A national hero.
If you had any shame, you'd straighten yourself out.
Now, I'm gonna give you a suspended sentence,
if you promise me, in the presence of that
flag, that you're never gonna do this again.
What about it, Hayes?
All right, take him away.
Ninety days on the house of correction.
Hi, Chief. Remember me? Sergeant Boyle.
Chief, sit down.
Okay.
I'm gonna read you a telegram I received.
Are you listening?
Kindly extend to Mr. Ira Hayes,
invitation to attend dedication ceremonies,
Marine Corps Memorial, Arlington
National Cemetery, 10 November.
Important impress on Hayes, his presence
extremely meaningful in this commemoration.
Signed Bridges, President Memorial Foundation.
They hope you accept it, Chief. So do I.
I got to stay here.
Forever? Don't you think the taxpayers
have something to say about that?
I know what will happen again.
There'll be big parties and drinking.
All that hero stuff.
I don't want to see Bradley or Gagnon.
You want them to look at your empty chair?
Then they'll know what kind of Marine you turned out to be.
Come on, Ira. Pull yourself together.
Mr. President, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen.
Our purpose today is a simple one.
To pay homage to our fallen Marine heroes
and to their comrades in arms from other services,
who in the campaigns of nearly 200 years
have suffered and died in the
cause of liberty and humanity.
In the profoundest sense, the heroes we honor
were engaged in building their own memorial,
not in temporal stone or bronze,
but in the timeless, boundless realm of the human spirit.
It is a statement to man's highest
hopes and greatest expectations.
The men depicted on this monument were real men.
Three are gone, and three are present here today.
It is not their act alone which we
memorialize, nor any single act.
It is not these men alone, nor any single man.
In this sense, they are but symbols which bespeak
the numberless acts of honor that went before.
Although we hail the fallen, we hail the living too.
For death is not the prerequisite for heroism.
Whether men fall or live, to be
there, to be willing, is to be heroic.
The five white boys who raised that flag were
willing men before they came to that mountain.
So they are symbols now of willing men.
The Indian boy who raised that flag was a willing man,
and he too is a symbol now of all the Indian boys
who stood the ground he stood,
willing, and therefore heroic.
Now and forever.
Mr. President, it is with these
thoughts that I have the honor
on behalf of the Marine Corps and the
Marine Corps War Memorial Foundation
to present this monument to
the people of the United States.
I promise I'll make it.
I promise myself.
I promise you.
I promise.
I promise.
I'll just run and check it over.
You go ahead down to the house.
All right.
Ira.
I came home.
Then it was like some kind of a miracle.
It was like God said, everything's okay now.
You know, this thing is just a symbol.
You don't have to carry it around in your guts no more.
It's out, it's not you.
So go on and be yourself.
It really is like a miracle. I mean it.
You know, I thought a lot about...
The time you came to see me, I
said some pretty crummy things.
Forget it. What else could you do?
Listen, you came back when you could, didn't you?
It's gonna be tough here, Jay.
People aren't gonna pass it off like you did.
But I promise you I'm really gonna get my butt in gear.
You know, I'm gonna work like there's no tomorrow.
You can even send me to Washington if you like.
Okay.
Now I'll promise you something.
You do those things and you forget about the people.
Because I guarantee that if you do, they're
gonna have just one thing to say about Ira Hayes.
He's a man to respect.
That's what they'll say.
You wait, you'll see.
Dear Sergeant Boyle,
Well, I guess you're surprised to hear from me.
But I've been wanting to say
thanks for all you've done for me.
On the bond tour and...
And making me go to the dedication when I was too ashamed.
I thought you might like to
know how hard I've been working.
I've really been pitching, pulling more than my load.
Doing anything I can to help anybody.
And making them know I mean it this time.
And I haven't took one drink since you got me out of jail.
The reason is that ever since
what happened on the bond tour,
I got this terrible pain inside me
that my own people are ashamed.
I gotta make it up to them for
all the shame I brought on them.
The one chance I have is this
nomination to the tribal council.
I know I could do some good for my
people if they would only nominate me.
I sure hope that they do, because
that'll mean that they forgive me.
If they only knew how much this means to me.
But I can't tell anybody about this.
They gotta do it themselves or don't mean anything.
Maybe the way I behaved I got no right to hope.
But I sure do, just the same.
Sergeant Boyle, they just gotta nominate me.
Because a guy's gotta belong somewhere
and now I know this is where I belong.
I'm gonna nominate you.
Shut up.
Why'd you say shut up?
You should talk crazy. If you say another word
about that, you can call me out as your brother.
Why?
Because people can make up their
own minds without no help from you.
I ain't interested in the council anyway.
What do you think you're doing,
keeping everybody awake in the middle of the night?
Noise... Hammer blowing horns.
Mrs. Jos told a visiting nurse that she'd
maybe lose her baby if she didn't get some sleep.
You're here then, chief, say something.
Do you know what time it is, Ira?
- No.
- It's 12.30. Why don't you go home now?
I heard Mr. Sinner was having trouble with his tractor,
so I just thought I'd fix it. That's all.
Every night. Hammer, hammer, hammer.
Okay, fine. Why don't you finish it tomorrow?
Okay.
Uncle, next time I'm in town, I'll buy you some earplugs.
Good night, Jake. Good night, uncle.
Some men make boast for speeches.
Some men do boast for work.
Ira's electioneering.
You will write your first choice, your second choice,
and your third choice for the people
you think will make good councilmen.
The three names that get written the most times,
they'll be the ones you will vote
for next week at election time.
Now, this is district number three.
Do you think Ira's got a chance?
What are you talking about?
Nomination, to the council.
He's had his belly full of fame.
He's not interested in that.
You people have been standing
out here in the cold a long time.
So your governor is gonna read you the
results before we post them at the schools.
Jay.
From district number one, Juan Perez, Joseph V.
Carlson, Franklin Galloway.
From district number two, John Grady,
David Peterson, Robin York.
From district number three, William Grant,
George Griffin, Jr., Donald Howard Miller.
- Ira!
- Don't worry about me, I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I don't need nobody.
No, Molly!
What's he doin' there?
Hey, Martin, what you doing there, huh?
All the way, 701, all the...
way... seven... oh... one...
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
Yes, sir!
Hey, come back here!
Sorensen...
Sor... Sorensen...
Well...
What am I doing?
Where am I going?
God, what happened to me?
Will you tell me that?
Please.
I promise. I promise. I promise. I promise.
I wa... I wanna go home.
I... wanna go home.
You're a damn drunk.
What were you ever good for?
Quack, quack, quack.