Is this a joke or something?

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

You can hear this line at 00:52:39 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Excuse me. Which way is the Sheriff's office?

- That way.

- Uh, Sheriff Hartman?

- In here.

- Oh, my name is Plunkett. I just came up from Springfield. I got somethin' for you. What?

- From the Governor.

- What's from the Governor?

- It's a reprieve for Earl Williams.

- For who?

- For Earl Williams.

- What a hassle getting over here from the station. All those police cars on the wrong side of the street and runnin' the red lights.

- Is this a joke or something?

- It says here the Governor is appointing a special commission to consider last-minute appeals for clemency.

- He can't do that to us!

- Oh, there was a stack of mail this high and a telegram this long with 4,000 signatures.

- How do we know this is not fake?

- Yeah. Could be some sort of a Communist trick.

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