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Jim's mother has just found
out that he's enlisted. |
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Jim found a barrel that he
and his buddies can use to rig up a shower in a tree. Melisande
wonders who this funny man is inside the barrel. |
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Melisande happens to see
Bull and Slim washing for the first time under Jim's makeshift
shower without a stitch on and laughs. |
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Melisande and Jim both make
motions to indicate that he was the funny man inside the barrel. |
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Jim uses his French-English
dictionary to try and tell Melisande he loves her. |
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Jim visits Melisande's house
one evening as they drink wine in tribute to the French soldiers
who are serving. Things get confused, though, when Bull and Slim
are caught stealing wine in the cellar, MPs and other soldiers
get involved out in the yard, and Melisande does her best to
pull Jim from the melee. |
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A sudden call to move to
the front and, after a frantic search, Melisande finds Jim leaving
on a truck and barely has time to kiss him goodbye. |
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Marching through Belleau Wood watching
the soldiers around him fall as snipers in the trees and machine
gun nests are sought out. |
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Finding refuge in a shellhole
with a German machine gun only feet away, the three buddies pause
for a cigarette. |
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Back home after the war,
hardened by the miseries and severely wounded, Jim can only think
of returning to Melisande. |
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When Jim's company was called
to the front, Melisande didn't see him for the rest of the war.
She and her mother return to rebuild their life in the bombed
out village while she wonders if Jim had even survived the war. |
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Reunited! |
