- I was lucky. If your sea-rescue plane hadn't spotted me, I wouldn't be here.
- No, I suppose not.
6 seconds sound clip from the The Bridge on the River Kwai movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:21:52.750 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Oh, I'm dying for a cup of tea. Would you care for one?
- A drink?
- Pot of tea for one, please, Peter.
- Oh, I taught Oriental languages at Cambridge before the war.
- By the way, I never congratulated you on your escape. It was a good show, I must say.
- I was lucky. If your sea-rescue plane hadn't spotted me, I wouldn't be here.
- Would you like to see where you were?
- Say, do your intelligence people have any idea what happened to that Colonel Nicholson?
- He had the guts of a maniac. They were about to shoot him, and he didn't bat an eye.
- Well, I suppose if you're about to be shot, there isn't a great deal you can do, is there?
[...]
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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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