The dead have to be buried immediately.
2 seconds sound clip from the Isle of the Dead (1945) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:05:01.824 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- I will give you that chance. I had planned to go there tonight. I will take you with me.
- Across the battlefield? Out there?
- You mean, it's dangerous for an old man? You forget, I am also an old soldier. You take the lantern.
- The soldiers are exhausted. Why don't you use horses?
- But these men have been fighting all day, sir.
- The dead have to be buried immediately.
- Do you want to know why? He will tell you why.
- Dr. Drossos, our American friend, would like to know why we use the men as draft animals.
- So tell him why we have to clear the field.
- In the sixth division, we have two cases of septicemic plague.
- 35 miles away, the Athens Brigade reports every other man sick with typhus.
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