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- Our task is to rebuild the battalion.
- Yes, sir.
- Which isn't going to be easy.

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

You can hear this line at 01:08:20.147 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- Thanks to the Japanese, we now command a rabble. There's no order, no discipline.

- Our task is to rebuild the battalion.

- Yes, sir.

- Which isn't going to be easy.

- But fortunately we have the means at hand: the bridge.

- The bridge, sir?

- The bridge.

- We can teach these barbarians a lesson in Western methods and efficiency that will put them to shame.

- We'll show them what the British soldier is capable of doing.

- Yes. I see your point, sir.

- I realise how difficult it's going to be in this godforsaken place where you can't find what you need, but there's the challenge.

[...]

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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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