We've failed, that's all people will understand.
3 seconds sound clip from the Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:16:49.267 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Let's go back on board, Kay.
- A world-shaking find, all right.
- Eight days. All we dig up are enough stones to pave a road.
- Had enough, Mark, or do we keep on digging?
- I'll tell you when I've had enough.
- We've failed, that's all people will understand.
- Have you any idea what this tributary empties into?
- My boys used to tell me there's a lagoon at the end of it.
- Over hundreds of years, perhaps over thousands of years, the current would break it up.
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