- You know, I worked for the same place for 5 years, and then one day they just fired me.
- What was the reason?
- Because I put those things in the fortune cookies.
- What things?
- Free Sacco and Vanzetti.

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

You can hear this line at 00:36:19 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- That is very old-fashioned. I'm merely going to ask you a few questions.

- Oh, thank you.

- Now, Mr. Williams, are you aware of what's going to happen to you tomorrow?

- They're gonna hang me.

- And how do you feel about that?

- Well, to tell the truth, I'll be glad to get out of that cell. It's so drafty.

- See? I told you. He's 100 percent sane.

- It says here that you are, by profession, a baker.

- That's right. I'm a specialty baker. You know, pretzels and breadsticks and bagels.

- You know, I worked for the same place for 5 years, and then one day they just fired me.

- What was the reason?

- Because I put those things in the fortune cookies.

- What things?

- Free Sacco and Vanzetti.

- Pretty sneaky, those Bolsheviks.

- Who's a Bolshevik?

- According to this, you were arrested in 1925 for illegal possession of explosives.

- Oh, yes.

- Well, I don't know how you feel about Wall Street, Doctor, but I mailed this shoebox to JP Morgan with a time bomb in it. And it came back because of insufficient postage. Blew the whole roof off my boarding house.

- We should send them all back where they came from.

- I come from Fargo, North Dakota.

[...]

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