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.

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

You can hear this line at 01:36:57.595 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- You like to grow things, eh?

- Yes, sir. With the food shortage all over the world it's seems to me that farming's about the most important work there is. I mean... Well, don't you think so, Mr. Stephenson?

- Yes.

[...]

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