Mother, people get run over by trucks every day. Why can't something like that happen to Uncle Elwood?

— Myrtle Mae Simmons (Victoria Horne)

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4 seconds sound clip from the Harvey (1950) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:03:17.505 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Miss Johnson, you were hired to serve as well as cater. Our guests will be here any minute.

- Let me handle this, dear. Miss Johnson, what's wrong?

- There was a man here a minute ago, and he stopped and he spoke to me.

- You didn't tell him anything about our party, did you?

- I didn't tell him nothing.

- He gave me his card. Here. And then he introduced me to somebody.

- To whom?

- Do you think I'd stay in this house after that?

- Mother, people get run over by trucks every day. Why can't something like that happen to Uncle Elwood?

- Myrtle Mae Simmons, I'm ashamed of you.

- Even if people do call your uncle peculiar, he is still my baby brother.

- And this thing is not his fault.

- Whose fault is it then?

- Now, we'll get the cook to do the serving. Come along and lend me a hand, dear. We haven't got much time.

[...]

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