- But the river doesn't stop up there. It can't!
- Not according to the map it can't, only... how do you get through that stuff?
9 seconds sound clip from the The African Queen (1952) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:33:00 in the radio play.
Quote context
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- Charlie, how much further do you suppose it is to the lake?
- Ah, there's no telling', Rosie. All depends on how much winding' around this old river does.
- The river's changed, hasn't it? And that smell. Why, it's like marigolds, stale marigolds.
- Not a very good smell for a flower.
- They're very pretty, though, marigolds.
- Rosie, it's on all sides. Nothing ahead but grass and papyrus as far as you can see.
- But the river doesn't stop up there. It can't!
- Not according to the map it can't, only... how do you get through that stuff?
- They're islands. Thousands of tiny islands. But where's the main channel among them?
- Don't look like there is one. Just a sea of grass and a forest o' reeds.
- Well, I better cut the engine.
- What are we gonna do, huh? I don't know. Get into it and take a look around, I suppose.
- But once we're in and the grass and them reeds close up in back of us, there'll be no goin' back.
- If anything happens, we'll just sit there... till we go off our heads with fever.
- I know.
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Actors: Greer Garson (Rose), Humphrey Bogart (Charlie Allnut)
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