We're under the heel of a man who will stop at nothing to get his way.
4 seconds sound clip from the The Bridge on the River Kwai movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:41:37.087 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- And wouldn't the officers be better off working than suffocating in that hole?
- And if he makes the sick men work. Well, they're going to die. That's all there is to it.
- Sir, we're lost in the jungle, a thousand miles from anywhere.
- We're under the heel of a man who will stop at nothing to get his way.
- Principle! No one will ever know or care what happens to us.
- I'm adamant. I will not have an officer from my battalion working as a coolie.
- Time.
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