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Yeah. And about three minutes later you can hear it. Boom! Understand? Broke every window in Frankfurt. Understand? It was gorgeous.

10 seconds sound clip from the Stalag 17 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:54:13.651 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Hey, lieutenant, how'd you blow up that train with 50 guards around?

- Well, I, heh... Just lucky, I guess.

- Don't let him kid you. Cagney couldn't have pulled a sweeter job.

- Here's what happened. We're waiting at the depot at Frankfurt. Understand? When an ammunition train comes through the longest ammunition train you ever saw. Understand?

- Oh, he's just giving it a big buildup. Actually, it was simple enough.

- I just drifted into the men's room, fixed myself up a little time bomb, broke open the window and when the ammunition train started pulling out, I just tossed the thing into an open car. I guess there must have been some straw in there on the floor.

- Yeah. And about three minutes later you can hear it. Boom! Understand? Broke every window in Frankfurt. Understand? It was gorgeous.

- Wait a second. I'm not through. Understand?

- I wouldn't talk about things like that.

- They never caught on.

- They may. That's why I'd keep my mouth shut.

- Why? We're all Americans here, aren't we?

- The Krauts have a way of getting information.

- Yeah, especially in this barracks.

- How?

- That's what we'd like to know.

[...]

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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