- How long will it take, Charlie, to get the torpedoes ready?
- Depends on the detonators.
7 seconds sound clip from the The African Queen (1952) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:43:25 in the radio play.
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[...]
- Look at the size of her. See her guns?
- Why did they stop at that little island?
- Oh, likely it's just routine or maybe just checking' what the storm tore up.
- They'll be back again. You know how them Germans are.
- That's them, all right. They lays down systems and they stick to them.
- Mondays, they're one place. Tuesday, someplace else. And Wednesday, they'll be back here.
- How long will it take, Charlie, to get the torpedoes ready?
- Well, I gotta rig up somethin'. We'll manage it, Rosie, we'll manage it.
- Well, there they are, Rosie. Them's the detonators.
- And what's more, I think they'll work.
- Now, what about the cylinders?
- You see, they're kind o' tricky, Rosie.
- We'd be working at night, Charlie. Can you do it in the dark?
- If that's the case, I'll have to.
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