Here's the flag. They used to put a loop in the cord. Did you ever notice?
6 seconds sound clip from the Stalag 17 movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:50:24.435 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- 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?
- They delivered the mail or picked it up when we were out of the barracks, like for appell.
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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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