As a matter of fact, we ran into a lot of trouble. The specifications of the superstructure were all wrong and we had to draw up new plans.

8 seconds sound clip from the Monsieur Verdoux movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:26:01 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I'm getting too old for that nonsense.

- There you go. Age again. I thought I'd cured you of that complex.

- I'm cured of you, running off the way you did.

- Sit down.

- What were you doing in Indochina?

- Building bridges, my dear.

- As a matter of fact, we ran into a lot of trouble. The specifications of the superstructure were all wrong and we had to draw up new plans.

- To climax everything, they canceled our contract on account of the crisis.

- What crisis?

- The financial crisis.

- What are you talking about?

- Dear, the worst catastrophe that's ever happened in years. Banks will collapse everywhere.

- It isn't in the newspapers.

- Of course not. They're trying to keep it quiet, but we were tipped off in advance.

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