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- Let me show you how they did it. They did it by mail.
- Mail?
- That's right. Little love notes between our security officer and von Scherbach with Schulz, the mailman.

11 seconds sound clip from the Stalag 17 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:50:12.631 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Oh, sure, he lived in Cleveland, but when the war broke out he came back to the fatherland like a good little Bundist.

- 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.

- He said shut up.

- You heard what he said.

- Okay, Herr Preisshoffer, let's have the mailbox.

- The what?

- 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?

- That's right. Little love notes between our security officer and von Scherbach with Schulz, the mailman.

- 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.

- And when there was a special delivery, they'd pull a phony air raid to get us out like last night, for instance. There wasn't a plane in the sky. Or was there, Price?

- Hilfe! Hilfe!

[...]

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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