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The only time you ever get it up is when you put the paper to bed.

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

You can hear this line at 01:25:07 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- The only time you ever get it up is when you put the paper to bed.

- All right, you've had a nice rest. Now put down that fairy wand and get back to work.

- Goodbye, Walter.

- Hildy, this is desertion. If you were in the Army, you could be shot for this.

- Get out of my way!

- Not so fast, Johnson. Where do you think you're going?

- To the station, to meet my fiancee.

[...]

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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