I tell you, gentlemen, we have a problem on our hands.

— Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness)

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

You can hear this line at 01:08:09.803 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- As I was trying to tell you a while ago, sir, the Japanese couldn't have picked a worse location.

- There's no bottom. You see those piles? They're sinking. Our chaps could drive those logs till doomsday and they wouldn't hold.

- 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.

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