The Mountain Road1960

Major Baldwin:
Colonel, I'm gonna blow up this road. Now, how can we keep the people off?

Col. Kwan:
Off?

Major Baldwin:
Well, I-I, I need them stopped for about ten minutes. Can you do it?

Col. Kwan:
How?

Major Baldwin:
Well, uh, how 'bout, uh, how 'bout if we get a couple of empty gasoline drums, put 'em on either side of the road, stretch a rope across.

Col. Kwan:
They'd go under the rope.

Major Baldwin:
Well, then we get some Chinese soldiers to explain to them, explain to them that we're cutting the road. How 'bout that?

Col. Kwan:
The soldiers will want to get through themselves.

Major Baldwin:
Well, could we give them something?

Col. Kwan:
What?

Major Baldwin:
Well, money?

Col. Kwan:
They cannot spend money here.

Major Baldwin:
Well, food. How 'bout food? We got 'K' rations, cigarettes. How about cigarettes? What'll they take for the job?

[Kwan Says something in Chinese]

Major Baldwin:
[Angrily] I don't speak Chinese, Colonel.

Col. Kwan:
There is no way.