They won't commit themselves to an act of attack until Santa Anna is here with his main force.

5 seconds sound clip from the The Alamo (1960) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:21:16.220 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- They're bivouacking about a mile south of our west bastion.

- Light artillery, lancers, some engineers. Not one unit of heavy assault troops has arrived yet, and it still adds up to 2000 men.

- That'll be to our advantage, Dick.

- That main body must be strung out for miles.

- The assault infantry, heavy artillery, commissary and supply trains, they won't be here for four or five days. And the actual battle can't start until then. Or, there'll be occasional sortie or artillery fire feeling out our defenses.

- They won't commit themselves to an act of attack until Santa Anna is here with his main force.

- Then what?

- Then Fannin will be here.

- More troops arriving every hour.

- Prettiest army I ever did see.

- If I take my men out, do you go with me?

[...]

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