An endless morass through which a thousand different channels twist and turn. And, somewhere among them, Rose and Charlie are hopelessly lost.
11 seconds sound clip from the The African Queen (1952) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:36:52 in the radio play.
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- Girls, try the big bath size Lux Toilet Soap. Do it tomorrow.
- Be Lux lovely for the holidays ahead.
- We pause now for station identification. This is the CBS radio network.
- For days now, the journey of the African Queen has been halted.
- Across the breadth of the river, like a towering, living wall, is a jungle of grass and reeds...
- Charlie, please. Let me pole for a while.
- Aw, it's no use, Rosie. All the channels we've lost, all the squirming and turning we've done...
- This river's crazy. Crazy as I am!
- Well, the only thing that will put the roses back in our cheeks is to get out of these reeds.
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