The Blockhouse
1973 · 93 MIN · IMDB 5.8 · 696 VOTES · DIR. Clive Rees
Overview
A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge stores of food, but not enough candles. The slow dying of the light parallels their increasing boredom, illness, and jealousy during their entrapment. Based on the Novel 'Le Blockhaus' by Jean Paul Clebert
Dialogue Timeline — 542 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:02:55 Come on, wake up.
00:11:20 You first, Visconti.
00:15:23 Leave it!
00:17:13 Stop it!
00:19:57 I know these places.
00:21:59 We're safe.
00:23:51 Since we have been in this room, we have burnt exactly 12.
00:25:41 But why can you not ask?
00:27:51 I'm trying to remember some poetry that, uh...
00:29:30 You lot just wait for the Germans to come back.
00:32:01 I'm gonna get this whole place in order.
00:34:29 Go away! Go away.
00:37:31 - Yes, really. I want to cut it. - Okay.
00:41:34 Come out! Come on. Come out and fight!
00:45:11 Kramer?
00:50:40 I've got here an English game.
00:52:01 There are never dots for everybody.
00:54:47 - That's cold? - That's cold.
00:58:30 Hold it now. Listen, you'll all take a turn.
01:06:13 Just a party.
01:08:56 Christ...
01:10:37 Show us.
01:19:37 Shouldn't I...
01:29:40 I don't want to die.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed542
Dialogue density5.8 lines / min
First line00:02:55
Final line01:29:40
Production Record
DirectorClive Rees
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes696