They delivered the mail or picked it up when we were out of the barracks, like for appell.
4 seconds sound clip from the Stalag 17 movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:50:42.703 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- 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.
- Brother, were we all wet about you.
- What are we gonna do with him?
- Don't you know? Because I got my own ideas.
[...]
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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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