Charles Macaulay credited as playing...
General • World War I Captain
- [the Sergeant affixes a cloth red '1' to his uniform. The Captain is drinking from a bottle of booze]
- The Sergeant: What do you think?
- The Captain: What the hell is it?
- The Sergeant: It's a "one". First Infantry Division. The Red One; think General Pershing will like it?
- The Captain: Oh, sure.
- The Sergeant: I got the idea from the cap of a Hun I killed.
- The Captain: When?
- The Sergeant: About an hour ago
- The Captain: Did he yell out anything?
- The Sergeant: Oh, the same old Kaiser stuff, you know, "the war's over," all that junk.
- [the Captain hands him the bottle]
- The Captain: Finish it.
- The Sergeant: Sir?
- The Captain: Finish it. The Armistice was signed, at eleven o'clock this morning. The war's been over for four hours. You didn't know it was over.
- The Sergeant: ...*He* did.
- Zab: [narrating] A quarter of a century later that piece of cloth from a dead Hun's hat had become famous all over the world. It was the insignia of the First Infantry Division. The Fightin' First. The Big Red One.