Saints and Soldiers is a 2003 war drama film directed by Ryan Little and starring Corbin Allred, Alexander Niver, Kirby Heyborne, Lawrence Bagby, and Peter Holden. It is based loosely around events taking place shortly after the Malmedy massacre during the Battle of the Bulge where four U.S. soldiers and a downed British airman need to reach Allied lines to pass on some vital intelligence. The film received mostly positive reviews. A prequel, Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed, was released on August 17, 2012.
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“What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They’re a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.”
—John le Carré (b. 1931)
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—Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl Rosebery (1847–1929)
“The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine, and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!””
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 23:36,37.