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What a screw-up.

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

You can hear this line at 01:04:51 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Halloween going on out there.

- Murphy. You ready? Sheriff's rifle squad stormed offices of Friends of American Liberty, fired off 800 rounds of ammunition.

- Casualties included a water cooler, two mimeograph machines and Rufus McBride, a deaf janitor.

- During the shootout, Mrs. Phoebe DeWolfe, aged 33, watching from a window across the street gave premature birth to a five-and-a-half-pound baby boy.

- Sheriff's deputies immediately examined the infant to make sure it wasn't Earl Williams, who they knew was hiding somewhere.

- What a screw-up.

- I think that right now my boss is throwing a costume ball in San Simeon with Marion Davies and Ronald Coleman and Vilma Banky.

- Okay. Here goes. Special Deputy Herman Shulty, the Sheriff's brother-in-law, who was leading a search party through the Wrigley Building has sent out a call for immediate help. Somebody stole his police car.

- City desk. Give me rewrite.

- The wounded janitor was taken to Passavant Hospital where he joins Dr. Eggelhofer and the six deputies injured by tear gas.

- They're opening up a special wing.

[...]

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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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