- What are those?
- Little black flowers that grow in the sky.

— Fred Derry (Dana Andrews), Marie Derry (Virginia Mayo)

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5 seconds sound clip from the The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:20:58.798 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- But let's go there for dinner, Freddy, huh? I'd like to introduce you to the gang. They've heard me talk so much about you.

- Anything you say, honey.

- Here's some perfume and some other junk I bought in Paris.

- Oh! Fleurette No. 5. And this scarf's cute. To think of having things from Paris.

- Freddy, honey, you're just a big hunk of heaven.

- What's that a picture of?

- Bomb hits on Düsseldorf. Oh, that's my B-17.

- What are those?

- Little black flowers that grow in the sky.

- Hey, that's me!

- Yeah, I had this picture pasted on the plexiglass over my bombsight. It took a lot of trips over Germany, baby, heh.

- That's sweet.

- The guys all used to kid me about it. They'd take a look at the picture and ask, Who's the dame? And when I told them it was my wife they'd say: Ah, go on, nobody's got a wife looks like that. What's her telephone number?

- When we go out tonight, will you wear your uniform?

- Oh, no.- For my sake.

- I'm sorry, baby.

- I'd be so proud to be out with you. Won't you, please?

- Well, seeing as it's you. Seeing as I can't find any place to hang it up, all right.

- But it's the last time. From now on, if you don't like me in civilian clothes we'll just have to stay here all the time.

[...]

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