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I wouldn't cover the last supper for you if they held it in the pump room of the Ambassador East.

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

You can hear this line at 00:20:35 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Here.

- Hello. Fishbein speaking.

- Fishbein, huh?

- Listen, you lousy baboon. You better start wearing cast-iron shorts because the next time I see you, I'm gonna bury my shoe up your ass, so help me.

- Come on. You used to be able to take a joke before you went into the advertising business.

- Of all of the lowdown, stinking... You'd wreck my marriage just to keep me on that crummy paper of yours?

- All I'm asking is that you postpone it for 24 hours. Just cover this hanging for me.

- I wouldn't cover the last supper for you if they held it in the pump room of the Ambassador East.

- Now, you get the hell off the phone and let me speak to my girl.

- All right. All right. The flasher wants to talk to you.

- That was a rotten thing to do.

- It was for your own good, believe me.

- Marry an undertaker, marry a blackjack dealer, marry a pickpocket, but never marry a newspaperman.

- That's why I'm making him quit.

- You can't make a leopard change its spots, or hitch a fire horse to a milk wagon. He'll be like a fish out of water.

[...]

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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