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A torpedo? Ask me to make a dreadnought and do it up right, Miss - a torpedo! Ha ha! You... you really don't know what you're asking.

9 seconds sound clip from the The African Queen (1952) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:08:15 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Is it dangerous?

- Ha ha ha! Bless you, no. That's safety stuff. Takes a detonator to set it off.

- And what are those long, torpedo-like things?

- More stuff for the mine. Them's, oxygen and hydrogen cylinders, Miss.

- You're a machinist, aren't you?

- Kind of a fixer, Miss. Jack of all trades, like they say.

- Could you make a torpedo?

- How's that, Miss?

- Could you make a torpedo?

- A torpedo? Ask me to make a dreadnought and do it up right, Miss - a torpedo! Ha ha! You... you really don't know what you're asking.

- Why, there just ain't nothin' so complicated as the inside of a torpedo. It's got gyroscopes and compressed air chambers and...

- Oh, but they're only to make it go, aren't they?

- Well, we've got the African Queen...

- How's that, Miss?

- And if we were to fill those cylinders with that blasting gelatin and then fix them so that they'd stick out over the end of this boat...

- And then if we were to run this boat against the side of the ship, well, it'd go off, just like a torpedo would, wouldn't they?

[...]

The African Queen (1952) Sound Clip

The African Queen (1952)Quotes with sound clips from The African Queen - Lux Radio Theatre play originally broadcast on 15 December 1952.

Actors: Greer Garson (Rose), Humphrey Bogart (Charlie Allnut)

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