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?

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

You can hear this line at 00:08:43 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- 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?

- Sure. Sure, Miss. Absolutely.

- Only there ain't nothin' to torpedo.

- Oh, but there is.

- Is what?

- The Louisa.

[...]

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