They say if you make one jump you've only got 50 percent chance of injury. Two jumps, 80 percent. And three jumps, you're bound to get your packet.

— Major Warden (Jack Hawkins)

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

You can hear this line at 01:37:56.092 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Oh, Cambridge don and all of that.

- You know, it's one thing for him to play around with explosives like a kid with firecrackers...

- Well, he's not without experience, you know. When we lost Singapore, he stayed behind and blew up a couple of bridges, one or two trains, and I don't know how many other installations before the Japs caught him.

- Caught him?

- Fascinating story.

- Sir, it's most annoying. They say, in view of the time element, they don't think a few practice jumps would be worthwhile.

- No?

- They say if you make one jump you've only got 50 percent chance of injury. Two jumps, 80 percent. And three jumps, you're bound to get your packet.

- The consensus of opinion is that the most sensible thing for Major Shears to do is to go ahead and jump and hope for the best.

- With or without parachute?

(BOTH LAUGHING) Oh, very good! With or without!

- He's in the trees!

- Yai says we'll never reach the Kwai by the route you took.

[...]

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