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- She had a narrow escape and so did you.
- Well, I don't want to escape. I'm nuts about her. I want to marry her.

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

You can hear this line at 01:24:36 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- His white-haired mother's tears, for Christ's sake.

- Where do you want these, Mr. Johnson?

- Any place.

- Those are my bags. What are they doing here?

- The lady sent them up.

- Oh, I don't know her name, but she sure was crying when that taxi drove off.

- Okay. Okay.

- Crying? What did I do wrong?

- Nothing. Those were tears of happiness.

- She had a narrow escape and so did you.

- Well, I don't want to escape. I'm nuts about her. I want to marry her.

- But I wouldn't expect you to understand a thing like that.

- Don't tell me about women.

- That dame in Waukegan chopped up her husband and flushed him down the drain on their honeymoon. He was nuts about her, too.

- And that Mrs. Haggerty. Knocked off six husbands by sprinkling arsenic on their prune whip. That's marriage for you.

- You think you got it made? No home, no family, no friends. Eating cold beans outta tin cans, sleepin' on your office couch five nights a week.

[...]

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The Front Page (1974) Sound Clip

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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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