He's lying. He's trying to get himself off the hook. He said shut up.
2 seconds sound clip from the Stalag 17 movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:49:55.030 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Six o'clock. I was having dinner.
- Six o'clock in Berlin. They were having lunch in Cleveland.
- Go on.
- He's a Nazi, Price is. For all I know, his name is Preissinger or Preisshoffer.
- He spoke our lingo, so they sent him to spy school and fixed him up with phony dog tags.
- He's lying. He's trying to get himself off the hook. He said shut up.
- Okay, Herr Preisshoffer, let's have the mailbox.
- The one you took out from the corner of your bunk and put in this pocket.
- Let me show you how they did it. They did it by mail.
- Mail?
- Here's the flag. They used to put a loop in the cord. Did you ever notice?
- And here's the mailboxes. Hollow black queens. Cute, huh?
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