- What about collateral?
- Collateral? What's that?
- Security for your loan. What can you put up in the way of property? Have you any stocks and bonds, real estate, valuables of any kind?

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

You can hear this line at 01:36:42.748 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- What'd you do, mostly?

- We went in before the landings and cleared the mines and underwater obstructions. And when they'd taken enough ground for an airstrip, we'd build it.

- Fairly interesting work, eh?

- No, it got monotonous.

- Those islands all look alike. Until Iwo Jima. That was different.

- So I've heard.

- I see you have quite a family. A wife and four children.

- Yes, there'd have been more if I hadn't been away three years.

- And now you wanna buy a farm.

- Yes, sir. Got my eye on a fine piece of property. Forty acres, out near Anton Corners.

- What about collateral?

- Collateral? What's that?

- Security for your loan. What can you put up in the way of property? Have you any stocks and bonds, real estate, valuables of any kind?

- Well, no, Mr. Stephenson, you see, the point is, I haven't got any property. That's why I want the loan, so I can get the property.

- I see. No collateral. That makes things difficult.

- I'm a good farmer. Why, even during the war I kept my hand in. I used to spend my spare time down on those little islands working truck gardens, so my outfit could have fresh tomatoes and green corn and all that.

- And before the war, I was a sharecropper, like my father before me. And now, I feel I'd like to have a little piece of my own to work.

[...]

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