An unknown germ is being blown around the world. It's highly contagious, and it's reached plague proportions.
9 seconds sound clip from the The Last Man on Earth (1964) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:36:10 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Oh, he's trying. Just like the rest of us. And nothing works.
- The streets are swarming with truckloads of bodies... that they're throwing into that God-awful pit.
- And the dedicated Dr. Mercer goes on... with his plodding, unimaginative approach.
- Maybe. At least it involves imagination.
- Ben, it's as simple as this.
- And you don't believe some of the dead have come back?
- And why are they burning the bodies? Why don't they bury them?
- Because it's the best known way to control the contagion... to keep the germ from spreading.
- That's what we've always believed, at any rate.
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