- 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.
10 seconds sound clip from the The Bridge on the River Kwai movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:07:43.341 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- 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.
- As I was trying to tell you a while ago, sir, the Japanese couldn't have picked a worse location.
- 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.
- I tell you, gentlemen, we have a problem on our hands.
- Thanks to the Japanese, we now command a rabble. There's no order, no discipline.
- Our task is to rebuild the battalion.
- Which isn't going to be easy.
- But fortunately we have the means at hand: the bridge.
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