Reeves, if this were your bridge, how would you get it underway? Get it underway, sir?...
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Colonel Nicholson:
Reeves, if this were your bridge, how would you get it underway?
Major Reeves:
Get it underway, sir? Well, first of all, I wouldn't build it here.
Colonel Nicholson:
Oh? Why not?
Major Reeves:
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 piles 'til doomsday and they wouldn't hold.
Colonel Nicholson:
*Where* would you build it?
Major Reeves:
[pointing]
Why, further downstream, sir. Across those narrows. Then we'd have solid bedrock on both banks.
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If this were your bridge
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how would you get it under way
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Get it under way sir
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Well first of all I wouldn't build it here
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Oh why not
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As l was trying to tell you
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the Japanese couldn't have picked a worse location There's no bottom
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You see those piles
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They're sinking
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Our chaps could drive those logs till doomsday and they wouldn't hold
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Where would you build it
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Why further downstream sir Across those narrows
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Then we'd have solid bedrock on both banks
Clip duration: 44 seconds
Views: 286
Timestamp in movie: 01h 07m 03s
Uploaded: 23 November, 2022
Genres: adventure, drama, war
Summary: British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
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