- What on earth was Mother hysterical about?
- I don't know. I couldn't make out what she was talking about. She was carrying on something fierce.
6 seconds sound clip from the Harvey (1950) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:47:25.399 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Quick, downtown. Step on it.
(1941 Cadillac Series 75 CAR ENGINE STARTS)
- Where's your mother? Where is she?
- She took Uncle Elwood out to the sanitarium. I thought you knew.
- She just called me on the phone at the club. She's hysterical.
- What on earth was Mother hysterical about?
- I don't know. I couldn't make out what she was talking about. She was carrying on something fierce.
- Where's the number of that sanitarium?
- I'll look it up, but I don't know what Mother had to carry on about.
- All she had to do was have Uncle Elwood locked up.
- Maybe that's it. You know, I feel bad about having Elwood locked up. I always liked that boy.
- He could've done anything, been anything, made a place for himself in the community.
- And all he did was get a big rabbit.
- He's had that rabbit up in my office many a time.
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