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I'll tell you how come. Because you, our security officer, said it'd be safe and you, the barracks chief, gave them the green light, that's how come.

6 seconds sound clip from the Stalag 17 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:26:21.563 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Anything else bothering you, boys?

- Yeah, just one little thing.

- How come you were so sure Manfredi and Johnson wouldn't get out of the forest?

- I wasn't so sure. I just liked the odds.

- What's that crack supposed to mean?

- They're lying dead out there in the mud and I'm trying to find out how come.

- I'll tell you how come. Because you, our security officer, said it'd be safe and you, the barracks chief, gave them the green light, that's how come.

- What are you guys trying to prove anyway? Cutting trap doors. Digging...

- Listen, Sefton!

- You listen to me!

- What do you think the chances are of getting out of here?

- And let's say you make it to Switzerland. Let's say to the States. So what? They ship you out to the Pacific, slap you in another plane, you get shot down again. Only this time you wind up in a Japanese prison camp. That is, if you're lucky.

- Well, I'm no escape artist.

[...]

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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