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As I was trying to tell you a while ago, sir, the Japanese couldn't have picked a worse location.

5 seconds sound clip from the The Bridge on the River Kwai movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:07:16.509 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- It may be funny and I'm sure it's done with the best motives but it's not military behaviour.

- No, sir.

- We must put a stop to these demonstrations.

- Yes, sir.

- Have you ever constructed a bridge across a stream like the Kwai?

- Yes, sir, half a dozen of them in Madras, Bengal.

- If this were your bridge how would you get it under way?

- Get it under way, sir? Well, first of all, I wouldn't build it here.

- Oh? Why not?

- As I was trying to tell you a while ago, sir, the Japanese couldn't have picked a worse location.

- There's no bottom. You see those piles? They're sinking. Our chaps could drive those logs till doomsday and they wouldn't hold.

- Where would you build it?

- Why, further downstream, sir. Across those narrows. Then we'd have solid bedrock on both banks.

- If this were your bridge how would you use the men?

- Well, sir, not the way they're doing it. It's utter chaos, as you can see at a glance.

- There's a lot of uncoordinated activity. No teamwork. Some of those parties are actually working against each other.

- I tell you, gentlemen, we have a problem on our hands.

[...]

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Actors: Alec Guinness (Colonel Nicholson), Sessue Hayakawa (Colonel Saito), William Holden (Commander Shears), Jack Hawkins (Major Warden)

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