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- You want it Old Testament or New Testament?
- Let's have it between the Sermon on the Mount and the 23rd Psalm.
- That's easy.

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

You can hear this line at 01:23:52 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- You don't owe them a damn thing.

- Well, they have been treating me rather shabbily.

- The way they edit my copy. They just butcher it.

- On the Examiner, your copy will be sacred. Sacred. Sacred.

- Here's your first assignment. I want you to make up a prayer for the city of Chicago. We'll carry it on the editorial page. 'Our Father, who art in Heaven, last year there were 421 unsolved murders...' All set up in boldface Gothic.

- Okay. I'll just get my rhyming dictionary.

- It doesn't have to rhyme! Just give me the Goddamndest prayer anybody ever heard.

- You want it Old Testament or New Testament?

- Let's have it between the Sermon on the Mount and the 23rd Psalm.

- That's easy.

- Duffy, that Tribune sneak is on the way over. Yeah, Bensinger.

- Wait till he hands in his copy, then tell him his prayer stinks, and kick him down the stairs.

- 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.

[...]

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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