Alexander the Great (1968)
1h 30min | Drama, History | TV Movie 26 January 1968
Alexander the Great must not only fight the army of Persia but also traitors within his own army.
Director: Phil Karlson
Writers: Robert Pirosh (created by), Robert Pirosh (screenplay)
Stars: William Shatner, Adam West, John Cassavetes
1h 30min | Drama, History | TV Movie 26 January 1968
Alexander the Great must not only fight the army of Persia but also traitors within his own army.
Director: Phil Karlson
Writers: Robert Pirosh (created by), Robert Pirosh (screenplay)
Stars: William Shatner, Adam West, John Cassavetes
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00:30For you we are in war, war, war.
00:34It's our battle, our battle, our battle,
00:39our battle, our battle.
00:45Persia.
00:462,297 years ago.
00:49A land of rock, of sand, of war.
00:54Barbaric war.
00:56For this was the kingdom of Darius, king of kings,
00:59ruler of all Western Asia.
01:01For centuries, the winds of battle
01:02swept this land dry of life.
01:06Until one day from Greece, from the West,
01:09came a man to bring life to the soil,
01:12and civilization, and peace.
01:16A man who was known as Alexander.
01:59Cut them down.
02:29He's alive.
02:45Kratos, my water bag.
02:46Kratos.
02:53The others?
02:54Dead.
02:55Cleander.
02:56He...
02:57Is he alive?
02:58Here.
02:59Persians.
03:00Took him prisoner.
03:01Where?
03:02Aridas.
03:03My lord.
03:04They are gathering.
03:05Vengeance, Aridas.
03:10I swear it.
03:20Butchers.
03:23Butchers.
03:26Butchers.
03:29Butchers.
03:32Aridas.
03:35Witches, to mutilate the body.
03:43It's nothing to them, but flesh and bone.
03:49Dies, it stinks and rots.
03:54There's no soul to these barbarians.
03:57They've slaughtered Cleander like this, I'll teach them.
04:07By all the gods I will.
04:16Bury them.
04:18Barbarians, look, there on the hill they have Cleander.
04:28No, my lord, it's a trap. They have Cleander.
04:30Let's go, Perseverance, or I'll take you on with me.
04:32But they head for the mountains. You saw their campfires like a thousand red necks.
04:34Cleander's like a brother to me. The gods will protect me.
04:37Well, what are you waiting for? Even the gods need help.
05:27I thought you'd never come.
05:56You fool, Cleander, that's no way to ride a horse.
05:58It was unavoidable, my lord.
06:09What happened?
06:10I had a feeling they were waiting for us, an ambush.
06:13As if someone had told them that...
06:15Alexander, look!
06:25Cleander!
06:28Cleander!
06:30Cleander!
06:55Well, what about the possibility...
06:56I have nothing else to report.
06:59This is his last position, here.
07:01Near the tree where Cleander's men were found five days ago.
07:04Antigonus!
07:05And the mouth of the gorge where you found signs of a skirmish.
07:09Now, if Cleander was taken prisoner...
07:13Alexander might have gone in pursuit.
07:15How far did you look?
07:17Far as I thought wise.
07:19And your wisdom, how far would that take you?
07:21What are you saying?
07:22I don't know!
07:24I haven't questioned your report, Adalus, nor your desire...
07:27to find our king.
07:29Now, I suggest we search further north.
07:33Aristotle!
07:35You will take a company of five hundred men and search through here.
07:38My lord!
07:39Did you find any trace of our king, Corotus?
07:41I found nothing.
07:42To the south for a hundred leagues, there's nothing but dust and enemy patrols.
07:45Perhaps further to the east.
07:46And then again north and later west.
07:48We cannot stay here forever.
07:50We've all heard the reports.
07:52The Persians gather in greater forces than ever.
07:54There are always rumors.
07:55Yes, Torren, but I'm speaking of facts.
07:57Sentry!
07:58Bring him in.
08:01Behind this range, a sea of Persians prepares to flood down upon us.
08:05Now, what do we do when they come?
08:07We're boxed in here. Mountains on all sides.
08:09No place to maneuver the troops.
08:11Antigonus, we're inviting disaster.
08:13And you know it.
08:15This is no rumor.
08:18But an officer was captured last night.
08:22Tell them.
08:24How many gather in the east?
08:26A sun that darkens in the dust of Mendon's army.
08:29Mendon?
08:30I thought he was killed last year at Issus.
08:32He lives.
08:33He will crush you as he would step on a beetle.
08:43Five kings.
08:45Five nations are now pledged to Darius.
08:48All of Persia moves toward us to trap us here and destroy us at one sweep.
08:53We must withdraw before it's too late.
08:56Back to the coast if necessary, but at least to a position we can defend against Memnon.
09:02My General Memnon!
09:04Alexander is dead, as we planned.
09:08Show me his head.
09:10You will have it tonight. I left to report to you.
09:13Did you see him die?
09:15I saw the trap sprung.
09:17Alexander is dead.
09:19I left to report to you.
09:21I saw the trap sprung.
09:23Alexander is dead.
09:25I left to report to you.
09:27I saw the trap sprung.
09:29I saw the trap sprung.
09:31Alexander rode into it like a raging blind man, just like our Greek friend told us he would.
09:36Did you see him die?
09:38There was no escape.
09:41Very well.
09:44But I shall have one head tonight.
09:47His or yours.
09:53Alexander!
09:59Alexander!
10:01Alexander!
10:24Marshweed.
10:26I knew he went east.
10:28Blood.
10:30Days old.
10:34The King is dead.
10:37You can't be.
10:41I don't believe it.
10:47Sentry, take him.
10:50Treat him gently as Alexander would have it.
10:58Father.
11:00I can't live without him.
11:02You can and you will.
11:04He's all that matters.
11:06No, no, no, no, no.
11:08At your age, life is all that matters.
11:13When you get my age, you can be heroic.
11:20I'm sorry.
11:22When you get my age, you can be heroic.
11:28My princess, you have a home here in Persia, a family.
11:31You'll be released from hostage to return.
11:34No, I belong to Alexander.
11:36Not anymore. He's dead.
11:42I know how you feel. He was like a son to me.
11:47You know, when he was a boy, he once told me
11:49that gods would protect him always.
11:52Not in this world, I said.
11:54I will be your protector.
11:57I should never have let him go off by himself.
12:00Antigonus, it's not your fault.
12:02I tried to reason with him.
12:05I could never hold him back.
12:08Poor Antigonus.
12:10You loved him as much as I did.
12:12I respected him, as you must.
12:18To respect him, we show our courage.
12:27Understand?
12:37There is no other choice.
12:39Antigonus has commanded in Alexander's absence before.
12:43He should assume command now.
12:45I will not leave Alexander's army.
12:47But you are the senior general.
12:49Yes, I am.
12:51And I bear full responsibility for my decision.
12:55My day has passed.
12:57No, I tell you I will not command.
13:00What I do is right for Greece.
13:03And right for this army.
13:07With the hardships we must face,
13:10we need a younger man.
13:12One whose leadership is unquestionable.
13:16Who ranks second only to Alexander as a commander.
13:21Koronos, I speak of you.
13:26The troops will obey you.
13:31I will obey you.
13:36I pledge you.
13:38And I will obey, and so pledge.
13:46There is no substitute for the man who sat on his throne.
13:51Alexander of Macedonia shall never be forgotten.
13:55For the first time in history because of him,
13:58Greece has no enemy facing her shore.
14:02I will try to do service to his name.
14:05But in my own way.
14:07I will build a chain of fortress cities along the coast.
14:10To protect all that we have won.
14:13Now if I leave this army,
14:15we shall move no further east.
14:17Leave Persia to the Persians.
14:20We shall consolidate our gains.
14:22My lords.
14:24Our responsibility is to Greece.
14:27We must protect her.
14:30We must return to her.
14:32Is there anyone who says no?
14:36And so be it. I accept command.
14:38Atlas, order the troops to break camp immediately.
14:41Tonight we march west.
14:43Toward the sea and home.
14:51If you leave Koronos,
14:53I will not follow, nor will my men.
14:55You will march if I command it.
14:57Not until I find Alexander.
14:59He's dead.
15:00No, I shall find his body and return it to Greece where it belongs.
15:03Now you understand.
15:04Please.
15:05A thousand men.
15:06Let me have them in a week's delay.
15:08It's a brave gesture, Aristap.
15:10And one that suits you.
15:13And would you ride into Memnon's camp itself?
15:16I have no fear of Memnon.
15:20Then you're a bigger fool than I thought you were.
15:24No one calls me fool.
15:28I say it.
15:49I expect you're worried more than I'm worried.
15:51I expect you're worried more than I am.
15:55When he got back, I told you, among horses he too is a god.
16:06I'll dry those tears.
16:07I want a happy face. I'll be with you in a minute.
16:10Call a bath woman first.
16:11And hot water. Buckets and buckets of it.
16:13I see the camp is being prepared to march. Why?
16:16We were given orders to withdraw or consolidate our position in case of attack.
16:20At whose command?
16:21At mine.
16:25My lord, I...
16:27I believed you to be dead.
16:29I'm surprised you think me dead so quickly.
16:31Oh, I never thought Alexander would die quickly.
16:34But five days, my lord.
16:36Five days.
16:39I...
16:40I thought it a military necessity.
16:46Gentlemen, I smell of marsh weed, sand dust and sweat.
16:49I want to bathe, I want to shave and I want to rest.
16:51Least of all do I want to talk.
16:52See Cleander, he hasn't stopped talking since his rescue.
16:57For all as we think alike.
16:59At the order stand, we move tonight.
17:01Let's go.
17:19Shall we pretend he isn't here?
17:20Would it do any good?
17:21No.
17:22Then I shall go and wait your course.
17:27All right, Antigonus, I admit I was wrong.
17:29Reckless, foolish, impetuous and all the rest.
17:32That's what you want to say, isn't it?
17:33Only partly.
17:35I thought it might do for a start.
17:37Running off into the mountains alone.
17:40Alexander.
17:43Alexander, by all that's holy, you should be dead.
17:45I went after Cleander.
17:46He'd have done the same for me.
17:48Cleander happens not to be the king.
17:51For which Greece can be thankful.
17:53I admit I tempted the gods, but they're good to their own.
17:57What are you now?
17:58A god or man?
18:00Whatever suits my purpose.
18:01If one Greek lives because a Persian trembles at the sight of a god, it suits my purpose.
18:05And your own men, what are they to believe?
18:07As I sweat like a Macedonian and bleed like a Greek, they'll follow my command.
18:14All right, spit it out.
18:15You chew your tongue like a camel.
18:17What's wrong?
18:18You take too many risks.
18:20Anything else?
18:21Yes.
18:22Disorder to march.
18:24What pace do we set?
18:25How far do we go?
18:26And by what route?
18:27That's it, but hotter, much hotter.
18:32What was it you said?
18:33Disorder to march. We haven't yet...
18:34If you insist on talking, join me.
18:36Now, please.
18:37The girls will scrub that scowl off your face.
18:39Now, will you be serious?
18:40Later, Antigonus, I'll explain everything at dinner.
18:42I'll tell you what.
18:43Invite the council of generals to dinner.
18:45We will have a party.
18:47We'll celebrate.
18:48Celebrate what?
18:49My return.
18:50No, better yet.
18:51Our departure.
18:52Oh, anything for a celebration.
19:10Stay still.
19:13If you want to live, you do as I say.
19:18Tonight...
19:19Tonight...
19:21Dressed as a Greek soldier, you will kill Alexander.
19:25If he dies, you'll live.
19:28If he lives, you're dead.
19:50My lord.
19:52Turan wanted me to show him how you got away from that Persian dagger.
19:55I was curious about the principle of leverage.
19:58You can't explain it.
20:00You have to show him.
20:01No!
20:04Turan's an engineer.
20:06Not a fighter.
20:07Let me show you.
20:09Oh, no, my lord.
20:11Let me show him.
20:19Let me show him.
20:33Cletus.
20:39Good lesson, Cletus.
20:40I've always wanted to know how to fall without breaking any bones.
20:44A toast.
20:45To Alexander.
20:47May all his victories be as easily won.
20:52To Alexander.
20:54Who has proved, as Aesop said,
20:56a quick fox is stronger than a dumb ox.
21:02To my king and my commander.
21:05May you live as long as it is in my heart to wish it.
21:09And may you rule as long as it benefits Greece.
21:13Gentlemen, thanks for the toast.
21:17Princess.
21:20Will you pleasure us with a dance?
21:22With pleasure, my lord.
21:28Toronos.
21:29Inonov.
21:31You gave an order to march.
21:33Have you given any thought to a direction?
21:34I had, my lord.
21:36West.
21:38To the coast?
21:39No.
21:40Toward home.
21:42Obviously, you thought that would be my command.
21:44I would attempt to lead this army as wisely as you, my lord.
21:48Given the opportunity, of course.
21:49Of course.
21:51I'm glad we see eye to eye, Toronos.
21:55What we both do is for the good of our men.
21:57I would assume.
22:14Come on!
22:38The camp is prepared, Alexander.
22:40The men await your orders.
22:41Good.
22:43Must they wait all night?
22:44It's getting cold.
22:45No, of course.
22:46You shall have them now.
22:49The council of generals will remain.
22:50The rest of you are dismissed.
22:52At once.
22:54Princess Ara.
22:56My apologies.
22:57I'll explain later.
23:04The army will not withdraw.
23:05It will advance.
23:06We march to the east.
23:07East.
23:08I have learned where Memnon's army rests.
23:10We shall advance and attack through here.
23:14It will be a forced march with two hour rest periods every six hours.
23:17I expect the army to be at this location at the end of the first day and here on the night of the second.
23:21Arastander.
23:22You will lead the light cavalry and be the first into the mountains.
23:24This will be your route through this valley.
23:26Toron, you will follow him with your catapults and other machinery.
23:29Cleander, you and your lancers will follow Arastander.
23:32Antigonus, you will take the light infantry, move forward through this pass connecting with Arastander here.
23:38Coronus, you and your men will move across this range with the heavy infantry.
23:41Cletus, you will follow Coronus with your bowmen, meeting the main body of troops here.
23:46Atlas, you will follow them with the supply trains and reserve forces.
23:50I will book no delay.
23:51Are there any questions?
23:52Two days' march.
23:54How long a march after that?
23:57You shall know in time.
23:59And what of the battle plan?
24:00Will we know that in time or do we fight without one?
24:03You will know it.
24:04Any others?
24:05One, my lord.
24:06Ask it.
24:07Why to the east?
24:13To the point, Coronus.
24:15We have conquered the coastline from Syria to Egypt and a thousand leagues deep.
24:20I say it is enough to protect Greece.
24:23I say it is not.
24:24Greece is not safe until King Darius is destroyed.
24:26Every time we have him within our reach, he retreats further into Persia.
24:32We cannot chase after him forever.
24:34The men are exhausted by these endless campaigns.
24:38If we continue on, we eventually will destroy our own army.
24:41And if we stop now, Persia will only grow strong again to start another war.
24:44Is that what you want?
24:46I want peace as much as you do and we can have it for the asking.
24:49Darius would be glad to compromise.
24:51Let him keep eastern Persia.
24:54And let us keep what we have.
24:56I will not compromise with Darius.
24:59Alexander, there are not enough men in all of Greece
25:02to conquer Persia and to hold it.
25:05I did not cross the sea to conquer Persia.
25:07I came to put an end to the barbarism that wrought this land
25:10and has plagued Greece for 200 years.
25:13I came to put an end to wars forever.
25:16We cannot conquer the world!
25:20And we shall build a new one.
25:23For Greece and for all she stands.
25:26She'll build a graveyard instead.
25:29That's enough!
25:34I command this army and I say we attack.
25:43Memnon is Darius's best general.
25:45His defeat weakens all of Persia.
25:48I say we attack.
25:49Because if we do not, Memnon will.
25:52Will you follow or will you not?
25:55I follow my king.
25:58The order stand.
25:59You are dismissed.
26:00Prepare to march at once.
26:01Leander, I wish to see you in my tent.
26:07I would like you to ride with me and the horse companions.
26:09Go to Antigonus.
26:10Ask him to come to my tent.
26:11Alexander!
26:12Never mind.
26:13I have no desire to argue politics.
26:15But what kind of orders are these?
26:17By the way, I have no desire to argue politics.
26:20But what kind of orders are these?
26:22By all that's holy, have you gone mad?
26:24Calm down.
26:25First day, second day,
26:26you can't lead an army into battle without telling them a plan.
26:29I have no intention of doing so.
26:31Why all the secrecy?
26:32Because it's necessary.
26:34For some time now,
26:36I've been aware the Persians know every move I make.
26:41Someone in our midst betrays us.
26:45Until I know who, I must keep close counsel.
26:48A traitor?
26:51Then, you must tell someone your plans.
26:56Anything should happen to you.
26:58Leander's been told everything.
26:59I can trust him.
27:04Here.
27:06Come.
27:08Drink with me.
27:09And I'll tell you all I have planned.
27:11All right.
27:12But none of that sweet Persian prune juice you swallowed.
27:15Here then.
27:16Good Greek wine.
27:18With bite like a Macedonian wind.
27:29It's been too long.
27:34Much too long.
27:45My lord, I tried!
27:49This is an escaped Persian prisoner.
27:51Dressed in one of our uniforms.
27:55I would feel better if this too were Persian.
28:00But it's Greek.
28:18Let's go!
28:19Let's go!
28:21Let's go!
28:23Let's go.
28:47The machines have improved.
28:49Easy now.
28:50Come on.
28:53Alexander.
28:54No.
28:55Push.
28:57Push it up!
29:15Our men can't keep up this pace.
29:17How many battles are we expected to survive?
29:19If our agreement with Memnon goes through, there shall be no more battles.
29:23Our agreement means nothing unless we retreat.
29:26Retreat.
29:27And then peace.
29:30He must be killed, Corollus.
29:33Yes.
29:34How?
29:36He's surrounded by loyalty.
29:38Then loyalty must die too.
29:40Alexander will be killed by the hand of the one he loves and trusts.
29:50Too tight?
29:52No, it's fine.
29:56You refused the physician.
29:58I told Cleander you wouldn't refuse me.
30:06My columns, take your positions.
30:08I'll cover you.
30:09Yes, sir.
30:10Let's go.
30:11Let's go.
30:12Let's go.
30:13Let's go.
30:14Let's go.
30:15Let's go.
30:16Let's go.
30:17Let's go.
30:18My column is still half a day's march to the rear.
30:20It can't keep up.
30:21But it must.
30:22Tell Atlas I want no excuses.
30:23I have told him.
30:24It was he who gave me the report.
30:25I'll tell him myself.
30:27You're in no condition to go anywhere.
30:29I'm not crippled.
30:31I've got two arms and I'll use them both against Memnon.
30:33Not only the supply train.
30:35The army is so tired.
30:36We'll rest tonight, Antigonus.
30:38Tomorrow at dawn, we join Memnon in battle.
30:41Tomorrow?
30:43You told me to...
30:44I would give you the plan of battle in sufficient time and so I will now.
30:48Ada.
30:49You must go back.
30:50It's not safe.
30:51Guards!
30:52Yes, sir.
30:53He'll see you to the rear.
30:59For your attendance.
31:03I shall pray for you.
31:05May the gods be with you.
31:08Until we meet again.
31:10Now let me show you the positions we'll take.
31:12I'm sure they're brilliantly conceived.
31:14Alexander.
31:16I've been up and down the line.
31:17The men are exhausted.
31:18In three days, they've marched the distance.
31:20It will take any other army a week.
31:22They won't have the strength to fight tomorrow.
31:24They are Greek soldiers.
31:25They'll follow me if I command it.
31:26Of course they'll follow you.
31:28They'll all die for you.
31:30That's what you want?
31:31If you don't want to die, you'll have to die.
31:34I'm not going to die.
31:35I'm not going to die.
31:36I'm not going to die.
31:37That's what you want?
31:38If you commit us to battle tomorrow,
31:41we'll lose three or four thousand men in the first half hour.
31:43If I don't, we'll lose the advantage we've gained by our forced march,
31:46and Memnon will kill ten times that number.
31:48I tell you, this battle is ill-timed.
31:50You can't...
31:51You're always telling me something I can't do.
31:54What are you, my father?
31:55No!
31:59I'm only a soldier.
32:01Point out a man.
32:02Tell me he is your enemy or the enemy of Greece,
32:05and I will kill him.
32:07But tell me to order my men into battle when I know they'll be slaughtered.
32:10This I won't do.
32:12I will not take that responsibility.
32:15I will.
32:19I'll lead this army to victory tomorrow, with or without you.
32:27Antigonus!
32:32If you won't share the responsibility at the front, then go to the rear.
32:37See to it that the supply train is in position.
32:40You can share that responsibility with Atlas.
32:54How many of those rope slings you gonna make?
32:56Must have made a hundred.
32:58What you gonna do, have us climb those cliffs by hand?
33:01Get some sleep.
33:02How you gonna fight tomorrow, you stay up all night?
33:04I don't like it.
33:06I hear Antigonus doesn't think we should attack.
33:08Who does?
33:09These mountains are nothing but a burial pile.
33:12Sleep. Alexander knows what he does.
33:15I don't like it.
33:16If we saw a star fall, it's a bad sign.
33:19Star falls, a soldier dies.
33:26Get those animals moving!
33:29There he goes!
33:30Get those animals moving!
33:33There he goes!
33:36Get them moving!
33:42I heard about the disagreement.
33:45Without my support...
33:47You're a good man, Antigonus.
33:48The support of others like myself will agree with you.
33:51This battle is ill-omened.
33:54Others?
33:55Yes.
33:56We're just as willing to do something.
33:57If they knew they could count on your help.
34:00How many are there?
34:01Enough.
34:04Do they just conspire?
34:07Or will they act?
34:09It's already set.
34:10Will you join us?
34:14I will.
34:16Good.
34:17Come, follow me.
34:28What's he doing here?
34:29What did you tell him?
34:31He joins us.
34:32He's split with Alexander.
34:33You fool.
34:39Antigonus, I'm pleased you're joining us.
34:42I had no other choice, Corotos.
34:44That's what I like about you.
34:46We think alike. We always have.
34:49You're a good man, Corotos.
34:50You're a good man, Corotos.
34:52You're a good man, Corotos.
34:53You're a good man, Corotos.
34:54You're a good man, Corotos.
34:55We think alike. We always have.
34:57That is because we are Greek soldiers.
34:59And as soldiers.
35:00We both know that if Alexander is allowed to continue east,
35:03leading us into lands where there's no possible support,
35:06he'll destroy this army.
35:07Is that not correct?
35:09It's possible.
35:10He won't listen to me.
35:12Yes, so I've heard.
35:14And do you now know that he cannot be reasoned with?
35:19What do you have in mind?
35:22If Alexander were to die in battle,
35:24would you nominate me to command the army as before?
35:29I would.
35:31Then he will die.
35:32With one of these Persian daggers.
35:37Think, Antigonus. I love him as you do.
35:40He will die an honorable death.
35:42His body will be taken back to Greece.
35:44He will be given a hero's funeral.
35:47Then without him, we can make peace with Darius,
35:49and Greece will be safe for a thousand years.
35:54Thus we protect Greece from our enemies.
36:01But who protects her from her friend?
36:03Alaskanem!
36:24Alaskanem!
36:54Alaskanem!
37:24Alaskanem!
37:45It's Alexander!
37:46He's here!
37:47My general!
37:50They come from the hills behind!
37:51What is this?
37:52The Greek army!
37:53It's a few minutes away!
37:55They come from nowhere!
37:56Impossible!
37:57Only three days ago they were camped across those mountains!
37:59A week's march!
38:00I've seen them with my own eyes!
38:02So you've seen them with your own eyes.
38:05Go!
38:09Come!
38:10Come, the heaven dropped out of the skies like gods.
38:12They have found a passageway through those mountains.
38:17Alexander is clever.
38:19My horse!
38:20Armor!
38:24He has come to us, this boy king.
38:28Saved us a dusty march.
38:31Nothing has changed except that he dies sooner.
38:36Well, what are you doing here?
38:39Get with your men!
38:47Well, Alexander, are these plains wide enough for your cavalry?
38:50Yes, my lord.
38:51There is room here for victory.
38:56We shall have it.
38:57It can't mend them nothing.
38:59His army is disordered and before this day destroyed.
39:03Get Antigonus.
39:04Send for the general.
39:07Now we'll set the battle positions.
39:15These Greek traitors!
39:18They can't be loyal to their king!
39:21They are our enemies.
39:24It is not his plan.
39:26But we have the advantage.
39:28Alexander has tired his men on the march.
39:31While we are fresh, stronger, twice their size.
39:37Our cavalry will run through them like weeds on the first charge.
39:41Danish!
39:43You follow with the chariots.
39:45Cut open the hole and I will lead this army through it.
39:48And watch for Alexander.
39:51I want his head.
40:13Mabnon expected us to sit back there waiting for his attack,
40:15so we moved quickly to catch him by surprise round and behind them.
40:18By the time they attack we'll be set.
40:21And ready.
40:23They can't flank us for these hills will funnel their charge into our lances.
40:26That's it.
40:27Aristander!
40:29Move your cavalry there on that rise.
40:30The phalanx will spread out in the center.
40:33When we join with the enemy,
40:35we'll make an opening for your charge.
40:37Go now.
40:38Yes, my lord.
40:40Koronis!
40:41Until Antigonus arrives, you command the right flank.
40:43Get your men in position.
40:46Questions, Koronis?
40:52Doron!
40:53Position your machinery there among those rocks.
40:56Load them full.
40:57Boulders, stones.
40:59Put a squad of men on that ridge with all the rope slings we have.
41:02When the chariots charge, drop them.
41:03See those boulders?
41:05Drop them as well.
41:06Yes, my lord.
41:10Cletus!
41:11Take charge of the bowmen.
41:12Put them on the cliffs to the right and to the left.
41:15At the first charge, let fly.
41:16Cleander, you take the center with the lancers.
41:19Hold it.
41:20At all costs.
41:21Do you understand?
41:24Atlas will back you up with the reserves.
41:27I'll take the left flank to open up the Persian line
41:29for Aristander's charge.
41:30Go now.
41:32A victory.
41:38And Greece.
42:02What is it we do now, Koronis?
42:05Our plan has failed.
42:07You considered him too much.
42:08You were too loyal.
42:09Either you or I should have killed him.
42:11I loved him too much.
42:14Still, he must die before he destroys us all.
42:24Set the point!
42:26Set the point!
42:27Set the point!
42:29Set the point!
42:36Lancers, position!
42:40Lancers, position!
42:45Lancers position!
42:49Lancers position!
42:57Brave soldiers, I command you, we do not stop till the Greeks are dead!
43:09Charge!
43:27Charge!
43:51Charge!
43:58Charge!
44:09British, chariots, fall in!
44:13Chariots, charge!
44:16Charge!
44:24They're up, slaves! They're up!
44:28The slaves!
44:47Charge!
45:01The Lord!
45:03Antigonus, he's dead!
45:07Murdered.
45:10Murdered?
45:13By his side, reddened in blood.
45:16What name?
45:18Koronos.
45:20Koronos.
45:23Koronos.
45:28Koronos.
45:30Koronos!
45:43Kill him!
45:46Kill him!
46:13Kill him!
46:31Koronos, I've been looking a long while for you.
46:34And I you, my lord.
46:43Kill him!
47:14No!
47:21Boulders!
47:24Boulders!
47:27Boulders!
47:43Withdraw!
47:46Withdraw!
47:49Withdraw!
47:54Withdraw!
48:13Withdraw!
48:19Withdraw!
48:22Withdraw!
48:25Withdraw!
48:28Withdraw!
48:31Withdraw!
48:34Withdraw!
48:43Withdraw!
48:46Withdraw!
48:49Withdraw!
48:52Withdraw!
48:55Withdraw!
48:58I am only a soldier.
49:01Point out a man.
49:03Say he is your enemy or the enemy of Greece.
49:07And I will kill him.
49:13Withdraw!
49:16Withdraw!
49:19Withdraw!
49:22Withdraw!
49:25Withdraw!
49:28Withdraw!
49:31Withdraw!
49:34Withdraw!
49:37Withdraw!
49:40Withdraw!
49:43Withdraw!
49:46Withdraw!
49:49Withdraw!
49:52Withdraw!
49:55Withdraw!
49:58Withdraw!
50:01Withdraw!
50:04Withdraw!
50:07Withdraw!
50:40Oh, thank God, thank God for freedom.
50:47Oh, thank God, God.
50:57We cannot fail him.
50:59We cannot fail him.
51:01We cannot fail him.
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51:33We cannot fail him.
51:35We cannot fail him.