Look, when a house is on fire, everybody has to help put it out. Because the next time, it might be your house.
— Sheriff Tod Shaw (Sterling Hayden)
7 seconds sound clip from the Suddenly (1954) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:05:59 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Ellen.
- I know you don't want the boy to see war pictures, but it seems...
- Teaching children the art of death and destruction, the cruelties, the tortures?
- Ah, he's gotta know these things exist. Then he can fight against 'em when it's his turn.
- You can't wrap the boy in cellophane.
- I can try. As long as possible.
- No, Tod, I can't go with you.
- Well, I can't go on asking you and being turned down. I mean that.
[...]
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Actors: Frank Sinatra (John Baron), Sterling Hayden (Sheriff Tod Shaw), James Gleason (Peter "Pop" Benson)
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