Nigel Green credited as playing...
Colour-Sergeant Bourne
- Pvt. Cole: Why is it us? Why us?
- Colour Sergeant Bourne: Because we're here, lad. Nobody else. Just us.
- Colour Sergeant Bourne: It's a miracle.
- Lieutenant John Chard: If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber miracle.
- Colour Sergeant Bourne: And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind.
- [Bourne calls the roll after the battle]
- Colour Sergeant Bourne: Hitch... Hitch, I saw you. You're alive.
- Pvt. Hitch: I am? Oh, thanks very much.
- Reverend Otto Witt: [shouting, drunkenly] He breaketh the bow and snappeth the spear in sunder!
- Color Sgt. Bourne: [under his breath] I shall be exalted among the 'eathens... I shall be exalted in the Earth.
- Lieutenant John Chard: Mr. Bourne, there should be 12 more men working on this redoubt.
- Color Sgt. Bourne: They're very tired, sir.
- [Chard whirls around]
- Lieutenant John Chard: I don't give a damn! And I want this wall nine feet high, firing steps on the inside. Form details to clear away the Zulu bodies, rebuild the south rampart, keep 'em moving! Do you understand?
- Color Sgt. Bourne: Yes sir... very good, sir.
- Color Sgt. Bourne: [doing roll call] Hughes!
- Hughes: Excused duty!
- [the soldiers begin to laugh]
- Color Sgt. Bourne: No comedians, please. Hughes.
- Hughes: Yes, Colour Sergeant.
- Colour Sergeant Bourne: [Quoting Psalm 46, v10-11 just before the battle] I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of Hosts is with us.
- Cpl. William Allen: I hope so. As I live and die, I hope so.
- Hughes: Colour Sergeant Bourne! What's that shooting?
- Colour Sergeant Bourne: A rifle, Hughes.
- Hughes: Eh?
- Colour Sergeant Bourne: If you're sick in hospital, I'd suggest you go and lie down.
- Hughes: Yes, Colour Sergeant.
- Colour Sergeant Bourne: The Lord of Hosts is with us.
- Cpl. William Allen: I hope so... as I live and die, I hope so.