Not even Houdini can get you out of this.

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

You can hear this line at 01:33:28 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- That's it! Not to the gallows, but up to the stars. There's your last words.

- And on the front page, we'll have a composite picture. The stars, the steps, and at the top of the steps, Marx and Lenin waiting for Earl Williams.

- Just dandy. Put the handcuffs on them.

- What's the charge?

- Conspiracy to obstruct justice, harboring a fugitive, possession of a stolen weapon. Adds up to about 10 years apiece for you birds.

- Operator, get me Clarence Darrow.

- Not even Houdini can get you out of this.

- Now, listen, you pimple head, when I finish with you, you'll wish you were never born.

- We'll butter the town with your brains.

- Whistling in the dark, huh?

- We've been in tighter spots than this, haven't we? You remember that minister who had us thrown into jail?

- Yeah, reverend Godolphin. Because we printed he conducted sex orgies in the organ loft.

- Well, on the day of the trial, he was on his way to court with all his lawyers and witnesses. Drowned, by God, drowned in the river. With their automobile and their law books and their goddamn affidavits.

- And I have the same feeling right now that I had before that accident.

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You and I will be running this town. They'll be naming streets after us.

The Front Page (1974) Sound Clip

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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