Jump Into Hell (1955)

Arnold Moss: Gen. Christian De Castries

Quotes 

• Gen. Christian De Castries : [addressing the Chinese prisoner]  And as for you, my friend, we shall be ready, you can be sure. But should we lose, the whole world will still know that our enemies were not nationalists but conquerors for Communism. And you will find that the dead too can speak, often more loudly than the living.

• Gen. Christian De Castries : [a prisoner stands before him]  Well, now we're getting some place; a Red Chinese from Peiping and a gun from Moscow. The complexion of our war is changing, now that Mao and Malenkov are interested in our little valley.

  Gen. Christian De Castries : [he reads from a paper]  Lieutenant of the Chinese Red Army attached to the Viet Minh seventeenth anti-aircraft. Anti-aircraft - that's something new. Made in China, I presume?

  Chinese POW Lieutenant : Made in Russia.

  Gen. Christian De Castries : Russian? All this Russian generosity, out of goodness of the heart, to free a neighbour, huh?

  Chinese POW Lieutenant : Yes.

  Gen. Christian De Castries : Free a neighbour from any hope of democracy! To turn all Indochina into a Chinese and Russian slave... producing for conquest. It will deceive no one. All Asia will soon learn the truth, will learn your motives.

  Chinese POW Lieutenant : They'll learn no capitalist lies. Not from this fort. In a few days, no one will be alive to tell them. You're completely surrounded so it matters not what I say. General Giap has four divisions, forty thousand men encircling you. He has plenty of ammunition. You'll be wiped out!