Where does this phrase originates from?

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Where does this phrase originates from?

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Hi all

Does anyone had any idea where does the phrase "Ve hav vays of making you talk!"

Is it from the movie Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS?

I hear that the magazine "Private Eye" and the newspaper The Sun sometimes used it


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Re: Where does this phrase originates from?

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Something VERY like it was used - and since then misquopted! - in Lives of a Bengal Lancer in 1935..."We have ways of making men talk". After THAT...given WWII...it was misquoted and used more often than anything until "I've a bad feeling about this"... :D :D :D
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