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Why don't you go to the riffraff you love so much and ask them to let you have 8000? You know why? Because they'd run you out of town on a rail.

12 seconds sound clip from the It's a Wonderful Life (1946) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:34:43 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Look at you. You used to be so cocky. You were going to go out and conquer the world.

- You once called me a warped, frustrated old man.

- What are you but a warped, frustrated young man?

- A miserable little clerk, crawling in here on your hands and knees and begging for help.

- No securities, no stocks, no bonds. Nothing but a miserable little 500 equity in a life insurance policy. You're worth more dead than alive.

- Why don't you go to the riffraff you love so much and ask them to let you have 8000? You know why? Because they'd run you out of town on a rail.

- But I tell you what I'm going to do for you, George.

- Since the state examiner is still here, as a stockholder of the Building and Loan...

- I'm going to swear out a warrant for your arrest. Misappropriation of funds, manipulation, malfeasance.

- All right, George, go ahead.

- You can't hide in a little town like this.

[...]

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Sound Clip

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Blu-Ray cover

Download or listen to quotes with audio clips and sound effects from the movie It's a Wonderful Life (1946) by Frank Capra, based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern. All wave sound files are in wav and mp3 format.

Actors: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Henry Travers, Lionel Barrymore, Gloria Grahame

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