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- Is it dangerous?
- Ha ha ha! Bless you, no. That's safety stuff. Takes a detonator to set it off.

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

You can hear this line at 00:07:49 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- 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...

- What did you say was in those wooden boxes?

- Them? Them's blastin' gelatin, Miss.

- Is it dangerous?

- Ha ha ha! Bless you, no. That's safety stuff. Takes a detonator to set it off.

- And what are those long, torpedo-like things?

- More stuff for the mine. Them's, oxygen and hydrogen cylinders, Miss.

- You're a machinist, aren't you?

- Kind of a fixer, Miss. Jack of all trades, like they say.

- Could you make a torpedo?

- How's that, Miss?

- Could you make a torpedo?

- A torpedo? Ask me to make a dreadnought and do it up right, Miss - a torpedo! Ha ha! You... you really don't know what you're asking.

[...]

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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