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And the next day, somebody wraps the front page around a dead mackerel.

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

You can hear this line at 00:30:15 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I bet you get Saturdays and Sundays off.

- And Christmas.

- I can see it now. You're gonna join the Country Club, golf and Mah Jongg, silk pajamas with a monogram right across your whole chest...

- Hold it. Now, look who's talking. Journalists. Bunch of crazy buttinskies with dandruff on their shoulders and holes in their pants.

- Peeking through keyholes, waking people up in the middle of the night to ask them what they think about Aimee Semple McPherson.

- Stealing pictures off old ladies of their daughters that get raped in Oak Park. And for what? So a million shop girls and motormen's wives can get their jollies.

- And the next day, somebody wraps the front page around a dead mackerel.

- Don't knock it, Hildy.

- How long do you think you're gonna last on that fancy job?

- Yeah, six months from now you may be out on your ass.

- Never happen. You know why? Because, my girl's uncle, he owns that advertising agency. Now, tie that.

- What do you know? He's going into the nephew business.

- A gigolo.

- Where's your pride, where's your integrity?

- What's the newspaper business ever done for me?

[...]

The Front Page (1974) Sound Clip

The Front Page (1974) poster

Hear classic lines from the 1974 film "The Front Page" featuring sound clips from the movie.

Actors: Jack Lemmon (Hildy Johnson), Walter Matthau (Walter Burns), Austin Pendleton (Earl Williams), Carol Burnett (Mollie Malloy), Susan Sarandon (Peggy Grant), Vincent Gardenia (Sheriff "Honest Pete" Hartman), David Wayne (Roy Bensinger)

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