If you ask me, it was more like the 4th of July with all the fireworks that were to go off all at once and bust the camp wide open.
7 seconds sound clip from the Stalag 17 movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:28:54.688 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Must you two always be the last?
- Oh, yeah? You try jumping in those trenches first. Everybody jumps in on top of you.
- How do you think I got my hernia?
- Ach so.
- So it got to be Christmas Day in Stalag 17.
- It sure started off innocently enough with a party going on in every barracks.
- I love you, I love you is all that I can say.
- I love you, I love you, the same old words I'm saying in the same old way.
- I love you, I love you, three words that are divine.
- And now, my dear, I'm waiting to hear the words that make you mine.
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