Mister Roberts Script
Now hear this!
Now hear this!
Reveille!
I repeat!
Reveille!
Attention all hands!
Because another cigarette butt...
...has been found in the container
of the Captains palm tree...
...there will be no movies again tonight.
That is all.
All right, hit the deck!
Rise and shine! Greet the new day!
Off your hock and grab your sock!
Okay, Chief, youve done your duty.
Now get your b
chief domestic policy advisor. It
would appear that he averages about two hours sleep a night,
though that doesnt seem to slow him down.
LEWIS
You skipped the whole paragraph.
SHEPHERD
(to Janie)
And Monday morning it is.
LEWIS falls into the pace as the three of them head for the
double doors leading to the South Lawn.
LEWIS
"American can no longer afford to
pretend that they live in a great
figure, really.
FADE TO BLACK: 1ST TITLE UP
5 INT -- COURTROOM -- DAY (1946) 5
THE JURY listens like a gallery of mannequins on display,
pale-faced and stupefied.
D.A. (O.S.)
Mr. Dufresne, describe the
confrontation you had with your
wife the night she was murdered.
ANDY DUFRESNE
is on the witness stand, hands folded, suit and tie pressed,
hair meticulously combed. He speaks in soft, me
the window, we see the tiny figure of Ash picking up a book from a desk.
ASH (V.O.)
I first saw the damn thing at that blasted cabin. The Necronomicon. An ancient Sumarrian text, bound in human flesh and inked in human blood. It contained bizarre burial rites, prophesies... and instruction for demon resurrection. It was never meant for the world of the living.
DISSOLVE TO:
INT. CABIN - NIGHT
chief. Scramble the helo.
Vessel off our port bow.
This is U.S. Coast Guard.
Request to know your intentions at this time.
Incoming.
Valiant, Valiant.
This is Coast Guard - - - .
Negative contact with target. Over.
Captain, weve lost target.
Heres your delivery and payment.
Is it done?
- Cargo is on Dixie . - Okay.
All right, TNT, for the millionth time, listen up.
Since - weve gone hi-tech over
Chief.
That meeting in Centerville is
at : . We should hit the road.
Then lets go.
Ill see you kids later.
Bye, Mabel.
Keep up the good work.
See ya, Chief.
I might as well go too. All of this
will have to be rewashed.
Im really sorry, Mabel.
This is station QPID,
on your radio dial.
- Oh! Mayor!
- Country-fried QPID...
from Valentine Bluffs, where the
heartland meets the sea.
Mayor?
Mayor, someb
figures.
Haruko was born here. Shes as loyal as you or me.
Anyway, the minute I got in I went to see where theyre being held.
She wouldnt see me. Why not?
I dont know.
She and her parents will be sent back to the mainland in a few days.
It sticks in your throat that I want to marry a Japanese girl?
Sticks in your..? Dont give me that "racial bigot" crap.
I dont care what color she is. Its not the
chief?
I got to split.
Youre going.
Come on,
one more game.
Im bust.
So lets just
play play.
What?
Play for play.
No money.
Play play?
Show me
what you got.
Vincent.
Julian, I just want
your best game.
I think the moneys
throwing you off today.
...One more night
Cause I cant
wait forever
How about I win,
no money.
You win,
Ill throw you .
One more night
No?
Cause I cant
wait forever
Whats the mat
chief. Hes just
joking...
BILLY
How about the water...
GANZ
Firewater, Tonto? Is that what
you...
Billy whirls, swings at Ganz. Both men roll to the ground.
BRADY
Hey! Jesus Christ!
THE OTHER GUARDS
Seeing the commotion, they run toward it.
GANZ AND BILLY
As they struggle, Billy slips a pistol into Ganz hand.
BRADY
Thats a state prisoner,
asshole...! Back off...
ROADSIDE
Brady pulls Billy away fr
figure out about the mummy?
The mummy used to walk
with one arm out
and a leg dragging behind him.
He was still always able to get
his victim.
Im thinking, as a kid, Im pretty fast.
Just, you know,
put some moves on the mummy,
and the mummy, hed never get me.
This is what youre thinking about?
Then I realized,
mummy never has to sleep.
Eventually Id get tired of running
around the mummy.
Thats wh