He hated my wife for the same reason he hated all of you. He believed that you were all thoroughly un-American.

— Wadsworth (Tim Curry)

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8 seconds sound clip from the Clue (1985) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:31:56.548 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Wait a minute. I don't understand. Why did you invite us here to meet your late employer? Were you assisting him to blackmail us?

- Certainly not!

- I think you'd better explain.

- Please sit down, everyone.

- When I said I was Mr. Boddy's butler, this was both true and misleading. I was once his butler, but it was not his untimely death this evening that brought my employment with him to an end.

- When did it come to an end?

- When my wife decided to end her life.

- She, too, was being blackmailed by this odious man who now lies dead before us.

- He hated my wife for the same reason he hated all of you. He believed that you were all thoroughly un-American.

- I'm sorry.

- For some reason he felt that it was inappropriate for a senator to have a corrupt wife, for a doctor to take advantage of his patients, for a wife to emasculate her husband, and so forth.

- But this is ridiculous. If he was such a patriotic American, why didn't he just report us to the authorities?

- He decided to put his information to good use and make a little money out of it. What could be more American than that?

[...]

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