The Hour Before the Dawn (1944)

Franchot Tone: Jim Hetherton

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• Jim Hetherton : Those who want to fight can. I won't.

  Gen. Hetherton : You're not serious.

  Jim Hetherton : Of course I'm serious. You all know how I feel. It's nothing new. I hate war and I can have no part in it.

  Sir Leslie Buchanon : We all hate war, Jim. It's just there are some things we hate even more. Things we can't go on living with.

  [Looks at the radio] 

  Sir Leslie Buchanon : Things like, well, you heard just now.

  Jim Hetherton : You all despise me, don't you?

  Roger Hetherton : Don't talk rough. We don't despise you. We're just... just trying to understand, that's all.

  Jim Hetherton : Of course, I'm sorry. you've always been considerate. All of you. Mainly because you thought it was just a lot of undergraduate nonsense. Something I'd grow out of. Well, it wasn't. I haven't changed and I won't. They can do what they like about it. Put me in prison. Go to extremes. But I won't kill. And I won't help others to kill.

• Tommy Hetherton : You're not a coward. I don't care what anybody says. I know you're not. And you... you... you are on our side, aren't you?

  Jim Hetherton : Of course I am. If anybody says I'm not, you sock them for me, will you?

  Tommy Hetherton : Oh, I have. Lots of times.