Don't talk rot, Clipton.

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

You can hear this line at 01:48:38.980 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Don't move, don't move.

- What's the matter with Haskins?

- He's got amoebic dysentery and Blackwater fever. His temperature was 104 last night.

- Right. I see.

- This man?

- Leg ulcers. I may be able to save the leg if I do more cutting tonight.

- Do you really want to send him out to work, sir?

- Don't talk rot, Clipton.

- And that man there?

- His arm's infected.

- Most of them are so run-down their wounds won't heal properly.

- Yes, but I wonder in a case like his if fresh air and light duties might do him more good than being cooped up here.

- Light duties?

- Yes, after all, it's not our policy to keep a man in hospital just because he's scratched his arm, is it?

[...]

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