The Best of Men
2012 · 90 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 1,787 VOTES · DIR. Tim Whitby
Overview
Ludwig Guttmann, a renowned German neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany in the early days of WWII, takes a position at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, England in 1944 and begins to transform the lives of his patients, paralyzed soldiers that have been written-off and who are facing death from neglect. A breakthrough comes when Dr. Guttmann introduces sport into their rehabilitation, a breakthrough that leads to the founding of the Paralympic Games.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,288 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:33 Help me!
00:05:43 A German refugee! What next?
00:10:02 No!
00:13:14 Dr Guttmann. How do you do? Good to meet you.
00:15:49 Until now. There's nothing for two men to do all night.
00:19:37 Your young men are not treatable as such.
00:23:59 See how much room we have without this big ugly desk. Ja?
00:26:51 Of course! I should be head of neurosurgery in Breslau
00:30:45 Tin hats on.
00:36:18 Thanks for listening.
00:39:43 Er, no, thank you, but that was wonderful, wasn't it?
00:42:59 Poor Dennis. "Panzer boy", they called him.
00:46:08 But if your stubbornness and determination stops you
00:51:27 You stand to attention when you wake. For God's sake...
00:54:48 and golf sticks.
00:58:18 Staff two, Spinal three.
01:01:04 You don't take his money tonight. This is our treat, Doc.
01:04:42 There are walls to scale and break down and sacred cows to deal with.
01:07:57 Women are gentler with these things than we are.
01:12:00 Sideshow half-men.
01:14:42 # Till invaders learn with quailing
01:18:00 I'd like to raise the subject
01:20:24 Corporal James with the longing to teach history?
01:24:09 And what about you? I thought you'd be fixed up by now.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,288
Dialogue density14.3 lines / min
First line00:01:33
Final line01:24:09
Production Record
DirectorTim Whitby
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes1,787