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

You can hear this line at 01:22:22.338 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- I was lucky. If your sea-rescue plane hadn't spotted me, I wouldn't be here.

- No, I suppose not.

- Would you like to see where you were?

- Our information's rather scanty. It's mostly based on your report. But we think the camp is about here.

- 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?

- Now, here is the River Kwai and here is the Siamese village where you were helped. And here is the railway.

- But then, you must be fairly familiar with all this area.

- Oh, not really. I was out of my head half the time.

- Now, then, the railway starts down here in Singapore. Malaya, Bangkok, Rangoon. Their idea, of course, is to drive on through into India.

- Where was I picked up?

- Oh, about here.

- Well, as you know, the Japanese aim to open the Bangkok-Rangoon section by the middle of May. Naturally, we're gonna try and prevent them.

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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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