Look, it's all here in black and white. The pressure and soil-resistance figures in tons per square inch.

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

You can hear this line at 01:10:29.526 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Unfortunately, yes.

- Our engineer has made a careful study of the site and has come to the conclusion that the river bottom there is too soft.

- All the work up to now has been quite useless.

- Reeves, will you carry on?

- I've made tests. Those piles of yours could be hammered below water level before they'd hold. That bridge would collapse under the first train to cross it.

- Look, it's all here in black and white. The pressure and soil-resistance figures in tons per square inch.

- Just a moment, Reeves, before you get too involved.

- Colonel, do you suppose we could have a cup of tea?

- Then I take it we all agree that if we're to avoid disaster we build a new bridge at the site selected by Major Reeves 400 yards downstream.

- Now let's proceed to the next point.

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