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I've explained that to you. The disease is transmitted by fleas. Their bodies have an eighty percent moisture content. The hot wind from the south literally burns them away.

12 seconds sound clip from the Isle of the Dead (1945) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:22:52.397 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Wash all you want to. You cannot wash away evil. There is one among us who brings punishment on us all.

- If you'd forget about the evil spirits just long enough to pass us the towels, I'd be greatly obliged to you.

- What nonsense the old woman talks.

- It sounds no stranger to me than some of the things you've been saying.

- Good winds and bad winds.

- I've explained that to you. The disease is transmitted by fleas. Their bodies have an eighty percent moisture content. The hot wind from the south literally burns them away.

- If the sirocco blows, all danger will be over in 24 hours.

- Kyra sounds just as logical to me. That the gods send plague to punish men for harboring the Vorvolaka.

- Vorvolaka?

- What's that? Some old peasant superstition. An elemental wolf-spirit. Some such thing in human form.

- They say it drains people of their strength and vitality until they die.

- Kyra will tell you that there's more to it.

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Isle of the Dead (1945) Sound Clip

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Hear the most memorable quotes from the classic 1945 horror film Isle of the Dead, with sound bites!

Actors: Boris Karloff (General Pherides), Ellen Drew (Thea), Marc Cramer (Oliver Davis), Katherine Emery (Mrs. Mary St. Aubyn), Jason Robards Sr. (Aubrecht), Ernst Deutsch (Dr. Drossos), Helene Thimig (Madame Kyra)

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