- As duly elected compound chief, I protest the way these bodies are left lying in the mud.
- Anything else?
- Yes. According to the Geneva Convention, dead prisoners are to be given a decent burial.
10 seconds sound clip from the Stalag 17 movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:16:32.892 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Now you wouldn't want that to happen to me, would you?
- Fortunately, those two men...
- Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
- Sergeant Hoffman of Barracks 4.
- As duly elected compound chief, I protest the way these bodies are left lying in the mud.
- Yes. According to the Geneva Convention, dead prisoners are to be given a decent burial.
- Of course. I'm aware of the Geneva Convention. They'll be given the burial they deserve.
- Furthermore, the iron stove in Barrack 4, the one camouflaging the trap door, will be removed.
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Sound clips of the best quotes from the 1953 movie Stalag 17.
Actors: William Holden (J.J. Sefton), Don Taylor (James Dunbar), Otto Preminger (Colonel von Scherbach), Robert Strauss (Stanislas Animal Kuzawa), Harvey Lembeck (Harry Shapiro), Peter Graves (Frank Price)
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