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But if you got any ideas of gettin' there in this launch, you'd better get rid of 'em.

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

You can hear this line at 00:07:23 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Miss, look, you see this lake on the map? That's a hundred miles o' lake. And there ain't nothin' gonna cross it while the Louisa is there.

- The Louisa?

- She's a hundred ton steamer, Miss, and German.

- She's boss of the lake 'cause she's got six pounders, the biggest guns in Central Africa.

- Ohh.

- Ah, we're in a bit of a fix, Miss, whichever way you look at it.

- This river runs into that lake, does it not?

- Yes, Miss. Yes, it does.

- But if you got any ideas of gettin' there in this launch, you'd better get rid of 'em.

- Why?

- Well, you look at the map, Miss.

- This here is Shona. The Germans have a fort at Shona.

- They'd blow us right out of the water and, before that, there's the rapids.

- Twenty miles of water that's like it was comin' out of a fire hose.

- But it has been done.

- Yes, Miss, in a canoe, a fellow named Spengler, he almost...

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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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