- And Mr. Braukoff was beating his wife with a red-hot poker.
- I never would have believed it. He looks like such a quiet man.
— Tootie Smith (Brien), Mrs. Anna Smith (Mary Astor), (Margaret O’Brien)
9 seconds sound clip from the Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:49:54.909 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- He buys meat, and then he buys poison, and then he puts them all together.
- And then he burns the cats at midnight in his furnace. You can smell the smoke.
- That's horrible. Are you sure?
- Johnny Tevis smelled smoke and peeked in the window and there was a box of dead cats.
- And Mr. Braukoff was beating his wife with a red-hot poker.
- I never would have believed it. He looks like such a quiet man.
- And you know something else?
- Don't tell! You crossed your heart you wouldn't tell.
- I crossed it with my left hand.
- Mr. Braukoff has empty whiskey bottles in his cellar.
- Boo!
- Mrs. Smith, who are these boys?
- The saints preserve us, it is! You had me fooled.
[...]