The lucky children died. The unlucky ones went off their heads. You can see them now in the mental ward.

6 seconds sound clip from the The Third Man (1949) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:56:30.133 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- In Vienna, there hasn't been enough penicillin to go around. So a nice trade started here. Stealing penicillin from the military hospitals, diluting it to make it go further and selling it to patients.

- Do you see what that means?

- Are you too busy chasing a few tubes of penicillin to investigate a murder?

- These were murders. Men with gangrened legs, women in childbirth, and there were children, too.

- They used some of this diluted penicillin against meningitis.

- The lucky children died. The unlucky ones went off their heads. You can see them now in the mental ward.

- That was the racket Harry Lime organised.

- You haven't shown me one shred of evidence.

- We're just coming to that.

- Paine, magic lantern show.

- Very good, sir.

- You know, Paine's one of your devoted readers. He's promised to lend me one of your books. Which one is it, Paine?

- The Lone Rider of Santa Fe, sir.

- That's right. The Lone Rider of Santa Fe.

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