- How could I have had a time bomb? They searched me when they took me prisoner.
- And the way you search your prisoners, it does sound rather unlikely.
8 seconds sound clip from the Stalag 17 movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:17:20.127 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- I want to talk about Lieutenant Dunbar. Is this Lieutenant Dunbar?
- It is.
- What exactly is he charged with?
- Whatever it is, it's out of your jurisdiction.
- This man is not a prisoner of war. Not anymore. He's a saboteur.
- He's a prisoner of war until you can prove sabotage.
- I didn't do it. I was in the Frankfurt station and the train was three miles away when it blew up.
- Come now, you threw a time bomb.
- How could I have had a time bomb? They searched me when they took me prisoner.
- And the way you search your prisoners, it does sound rather unlikely.
- All I know is he did it. I am satisfied.
- According to the Geneva Convention, this man...
- Is there anything in the Geneva Convention that'll let a guy sleep?
- Simply this. After the hostilities are ended, there will be such a thing as a war crimes commission.
- Very well. If you insist on details, I have ways of finding out about that blasted time bomb.
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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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