5 seconds sound clip from the The African Queen (1952) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:08:30 in the radio play.
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- 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.
- Why, there just ain't nothin' so complicated as the inside of a torpedo. It's got gyroscopes and compressed air chambers and...
- Oh, but they're only to make it go, aren't they?
- Well, we've got the African Queen...
- How's that, Miss?
- And if we were to fill those cylinders with that blasting gelatin and then fix them so that they'd stick out over the end of this boat...
- And then if we were to run this boat against the side of the ship, well, it'd go off, just like a torpedo would, wouldn't they?
- Yeah. Yeah, that's right, Miss.
- Well, then we could point the launch towards the ship and just before she hit, we could dive off, couldn't we?
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