No. But you can reprieve him twice, so that the hanging comes just before the election. Huh? With you and the Mayor running on a law and order ticket. That is nice.

10 seconds sound clip from the The Front Page (1974) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:32:12 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- When I think of all that malarkey you and Walter Burns printed about me, full of hearsay, innuendo, and character assassination...

- What do you mean? Don't we always refer to you as Honest Pete Hartman?

- Oh, yeah. Yeah. And what about those things you always put around Honest? Journal.

- Why can't you move the hanging from 7:00 to 5:00 so we can make the city edition?

- Oh, come on. You can't hang a fella in his sleep just to please the newspapers. It ain't nice.

- No. But you can reprieve him twice, so that the hanging comes just before the election. Huh? With you and the Mayor running on a law and order ticket. That is nice.

- I had nothin' to do with it. That was the Governor.

- How do we know there won't be another reprieve?

- No chance.

- Suppose this Dr. Eggelhofer finds out Williams is insane?

- Come on, boys, you know that's just a formality to shut up those pinko troublemakers.

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