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Here, I had this specially rigged up. You clip it to your ankle, you run the tube up your pants leg.

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

You can hear this line at 00:09:38 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Tomorrow you and I are gonna stand this town on its ear.

- Oh, yeah.

- Every damn newspaper is gonna have the same damn story on that execution. But we're going to scoop them all.

- Because you know what goes in there? A picture of Williams swinging by the neck.

- A picture?

- A photograph, the first time anywhere. Exclusive in the Examiner.

- What are you talkin' about? That's against the law. You can't bring a camera in there.

- Who's gonna know?

- Here, I had this specially rigged up. You clip it to your ankle, you run the tube up your pants leg.

- Make a hole in your pocket.

- The minute Williams drops through that trap door, you lift your pants leg and squeeze the bulb. Clever?

- You sure come up with some doozies.

- At 7:00, the guy kicks off, at 7:03 you're out of the jail yard, there's an ambulance waiting for you with a darkroom and a typewriter inside.

- You take off with the sirens going.

[...]

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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