- Those lights, they gave me quite a start. I suppose it's the storm.
- On the contrary. We make our own electric lights here and we are not very good at it. Pray, don't be alarmed if they go out altogether.

— Margaret Waverton (Gloria Stuart), Horace Femm (Ernest Thesiger)

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13 seconds sound clip from the The Old Dark House (1932) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:20:35.774 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Well, this is a storm and a half.

- Yes, isn't it?

- Have a potato.

- Thank you, I should love a potato.

- Vinegar, Miss Femm?

- It's simply coming down in bucket fulls outside.

- Thank you Mrs Waverton, that's the phrase I've been searching for all evening.

- No, no pickled onions, thank you.

- Those lights, they gave me quite a start. I suppose it's the storm.

- On the contrary. We make our own electric lights here and we are not very good at it. Pray, don't be alarmed if they go out altogether.

(thunder cracking) (5)

(Scary door knocking)

- There's someone outside.

- They can't come in!

- But, surely they must come in. It's probably dangerous out there now.

(Scary door knocking) (2)

[...]

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