I couldn't see the girl for the water dripping in my eyes.
6 seconds sound clip from the The African Queen (1952) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:54:30 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- I remember another safari full of hardships that you and I made, quite a long time ago.
- A safari, Bogie? What? To Africa?
- It was Bogie's first picture in Hollywood and I was the director.
- We went on location to Palm Springs and it was a hundred and twenty in the shade.
- Well, you should have seen Bogie in his first love scenes.
- I couldn't see the girl for the water dripping in my eyes.
- But it doesn't sound as if you were having exactly a circus.
- See, I've been working at your home studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
- Well, I congratulate you, Bogie. You know we make only the very best pictures over there.
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