I thought officers would get better treatment in prison camps.

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

You can hear this line at 01:25:19.415 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- No, but they can't do this to me. I really mean it. My Navy's made a mistake!

- Look, I'm not a Navy commander. I'm not even an officer. No, the whole thing's a fake. I'm just an ordinary swab jockey, second class.

- When the Houston sunk, I made it ashore with an officer. A real commander. Later on, we ran into a Japanese patrol and he was killed.

- I figured it was just a matter of time before I was captured, so...

- So you changed uniforms with a dead man.

- I thought officers would get better treatment in prison camps.

- That's very sensible.

- Not that it did me any good, because at Saito's camp, the officers worked along with the rest.

- Yes, there's always the unexpected, isn't there?

- I kind of got used to being a commander, so when I arrived here at the hospital I took a look at the enlisted men's ward, then I took a look at the officers' ward and I said to myself, Let's let it ride along for a while.

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