There's a stench of death about you. You carry it in your pack like the plague.

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

You can hear this line at 02:01:05.647 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- He doesn't know it, but I do. You'd leave your own mother here if the rules called for it.

- You'll go on without me. That's an order.

- You're in command now, Shears.

- I won't obey that order.

- You make me sick with your heroics.

- There's a stench of death about you. You carry it in your pack like the plague.

- Explosives and L pills, they go well together, don't they?

- And with you, it's just one thing or the other. Destroy a bridge or destroy yourself.

- This is just a game, this war.

- You and that Colonel Nicholson, you're two of a kind. You're crazy with courage. For what?

- How to die like a gentleman, how to die by the rules when the only important thing is how to live like a human being!

[...]

The Bridge on the River Kwai Sound Clip

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Famous quotes from the 1953 movie The Bridge on the River Kwai, featuring sound clips of the best lines and sfx.

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

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