Farrell, who opens the film with this line: "To me a dollar was a dollar in any language," has just swindled American sailors with loaded dice in a game of craps played in a waterfront dive.And then he jitteringly reveals the plan for he next day - Dax""s regiment is to take the Ant Hill.Mireau is unruffled and casually calculates that over half of the men will be casualties in the assault on the hill, but they can still hold he position with the survivors." The camera picked up a cloud of dust rising behind their tiny car as they sped along a flat dirt road lined by a stark series of telephone and electric poles.Looking demoralized, the Boy returned to the projection booth of his movie theater employment, where he prepared to load a film reel into the projector, to show the movie "Hearts and Pearls" for a packed house-audience that afternoon or evening.