Robert Hamer Quotes
It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms.
Kind Hearts and Coronets. Directed by Robert Hamer, screenplay by Robert Hamer and John Dighton, Ealing Studios, 1949.
This quotation illustrates degree of hatred that the French had for the English for the hundreds of years of their European superpower rivalry.
A number of the American soldiers refused to obey Calley's illegal order. Some helped some villagers to escape, and a helicopter pilot landed betreen Callery's men and the villagers they were shooting at, and ordered his helicopter machine gun crew to fire on the soldiers if they did back off. The soldiers stopped firing at the civillians. However, his and other reports of the massacre were covered up by the military for a few years. Mai Lai was not the only major war crime perpetrated by Americans in the Vietnam War; there had been a few others. But given the years of fighting and the many opportunities war crimes violations under orders were quite rare. The Viet Cong had many more war crimes that they perpetrated, and our South Vietnamese allies repeatedly committed war crimes against their own people.
Robert Hamer was a British film director and screenwriter best known for the 1949 black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets.
