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Don't you know this could get me into hot water with the high command? They would court-martial me after all these years of a perfect record.

9 seconds sound clip from the Stalag 17 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:15:27.660 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Nasty weather we're having, eh? And I so much hoped we could give you a white Christmas just like the ones you used to know.

- Aren't those the words that clever little man wrote? You know, the one who stole his name from our capital that, uh, something-or-other Berlin.

- Look at that mud. Come spring, and I hope you will still be with us. Next spring, we shall plant some grass here and perhaps some daffodils.

- I understand we are minus two men this morning.

- I am surprised at you, gentlemen. Here I am trying to be your friend and you do these embarrassing things to me.

- Don't you know this could get me into hot water with the high command? They would court-martial me after all these years of a perfect record.

- Now you wouldn't want that to happen to me, would you?

- Fortunately, those two men...

- As I was saying, fortunately, those two men did not get very far. They had the good sense to rejoin us again, so my record would stand unblemished.

- Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.

- Sergeant Hoffman of Barracks 4.

- Yes, Sergeant Hoffman.

[...]

Stalag 17 (1953) Sound Clip

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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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